Proceedings. 151 



[Microscopical and Natural History Section?^ 



Ordinary Meeting, January 13th, 1890. 



Mr. J. COSMO Melvill, M.A., F.L.S., President of the 

 Section, in the Chair. 



Mr. CAMERON exhibited a new species of parasite on 

 the Ant, from South Africa, which he proposed to describe 

 more fully later. 



Mr. Thomas Rogers showed the flower of fat Aspidistra 

 lurida. 



Mr. Charles Bailey, F.L.S., put under the micro- 

 scopes, cystoliths, water-glands, pricking hairs, glandular 

 capitate hairs, and stinging hairs, as illustrating hetero- 

 morphism in the epidermal appendages of nettles. 



General Meeting, January 21st, 1890. 



Professor Osborne Reynolds, M.A., LL.D., F.RS., 

 President, in the Chair. 



Mr. James NASMYTH Sidebotham, of Altrincham, 

 and Mr. Howard C. SACRE, of Higher Broughton, Man- 

 chester, were elected ordinary members. 



