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prepared for this meeting. Messrs. Marcus Ward & Co. also 

 exhibited a series of thirteen sheets showing the separate 

 printings of a chromo-lithograph, the combination of which 

 produces the effect desired. Messrs. David Allen & Sons showed 

 two sets — one of five, and one of seven large lithographic stones, 

 prepared for printing the different colours of two highly- finished 

 pictures. The original drawings from which the stones were 

 prepared, and the finished chromo-lithographs printed from 

 them, were also exhibited, as were a number of very bold 

 water-colour drawings, from which chromo-lithographs, several 

 of them well known, have been made. 



Flanking the lithograpic exhibition on either hand hung a 

 fine series of dried and mounted specimens of British ferns, 

 shown by Mr. W. H. Phillips and Mr. R. Lloyd Praeger. They 

 displayed to advantage the wonderful variability to which this 

 race of plants is subject. A large number of fronds of the more 

 striking varieties, freshly cut, were also exhibited, and the per- 

 mission given to members and visitors to select from them any 

 they wished was largely taken advantage of. As usual, micro- 

 scopic work was a prominent feature of the evening, although 

 the wealth of other exhibits on the tables hardly gave the 

 microscopists a fair chance of displaying their treasures. Mr. 

 W. S. M'Kee showed living specimens of Rotifera and Polyzoa. 

 Their exquisite structure and graceful movements were objects 

 of much admiring comment. Mr. J. J. Andrew showed a num- 

 ber of living freshwater organisms, and Mr. John Donaldson 

 did the same with marine life. The beautiful group of the 

 Foraminifera found an able exponent in Mr. Joseph Wright, 

 F.G.S., and Mr. William Swanston, F.G.S., was equally success- 

 ful in Echinodermata. The beauties of rock sections and precious 

 stones, under both direct and polarised light, were well exhibited 

 by Mr. Daniel M'Kee. Mr. William Gray, M.R.I.A., showed 

 some fine slides of sections of coal plants, prepared by Mr. James 

 Lomax, of Radcliffe. Mr. James Stelfox, in addition to many 

 interesting objects of his own, showed some slides of living 

 growths of the yeast plant and other micro-fungi, kindly 



