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Fungi, proper to different solutions. After a period of exposure to the 
atmosphere of ^d ten days to a month, microscopic Fungi in the corpus- 
cular and filamentous forms were observ in the following fluids :— 
Carbolic acid, recul of €— valpliate c of quinine, —— anti- 
mony, acetate of lead, tea, s ted solution of sugar, port wine, sherry, 
claret, milk, sulphate of ers. yeast, urine, coffee, hay, chloride of 
of digitalis, and em strychniz. The presence of “Fang according to 
some authors, materially affects the therapeutic properties of certain pon 
€ The author had found, however, that notwithstanding the 
ce of Fungi in vet. pee which he had tested, € active ed 
porties were unaffec A quantity of tincture of aconite x 
the air for several eed and then submitted to microsepi ‘examination, 
when it was found crowded with torulæ, filamentous bodies, bacteria, 
vibriones. A small quantity was injected aaia into a rabbit, 
when it was almost immediately seized with slight startings, followed by 
violent spasms, and died in four minutes. Two drachms of tincture of 
Calaba ar bean were exposed at the same elevation Lue temperature, = 
er some time examined, when Fungi and Infusoria were detected 
small quantity was injected into a rabbit, when it produced the tmi 
istic symptoms of poisoning. e it was seized with peculiar quick 
trembling movements, gathering its limbs together "we NE as 
from cold. "Two drachms of tincture o were si ye 
and, on examination, large irregular yellow bodies, formed of rounded 
quadrilateral cells and groups of round yellow corpuscles, were observed 
scattered over the field. It also, when subcutaneously injected, produced 
the om of poisoning. Ina esr of anaes strychniz torulze were 
observed, and on it being injected inío a t, caused death in fifty-five 
seconds. The results of these ex iva dion that the presence of 
i did not materially affect the therapeutic properties of these poisons. 
The author described the different species of microscopic Fungi which he 
had observed, and noticed their mode of development. In conclusion, he 
made some remarks on the connection of Fungi with disease.——'* On 
the Flora of Craig Breidden, Montgomeryshire.” By Mr. James F. 
Robi e author noticed the principal plants he met with,—Poten- 
tilla rupestris, P. argentea, Hypericum Androsemum, Sedum Fosterianum, 
Cystopieris dentata, Veronica montana, V. spicata , Zgchnis Viscaria, Inula 
Helenium, ete. —“ Report on the Mikae Vegetation at the Royal 
Botanic Garden." By Mr. M‘Nab.——“ Notice of the Rapid Growth of 
a Twig of Poplar.” By the late Mr. A. M. Morrison ; communicated b 
Mr. Thomas Stevenson, C. E. rofessor Dickson exhibited a cone of 
Pinus Pinaster, having its scales arranged in a quadrijugate spiral He 
believed the specimen to be un nique. Mr. J.B. Webster presented 
sections of stumps of Spruce and Seots Fir, exhibitig the formation of 
wood after the trees had = cut diii Mr. Sadler stated that he had 
examined the new wood microscopically, and found it to differ in no way 
from tife wood formed rite to the trees being felled. 
LiNNEAN Socrety.—February 1st—Dr. J. D. Hooker, Vice-Presi- 
dent, in the chair. The President, Mr. Bentham, read the first part of 
