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glass, enlargements of microscopic sections, capable of being 

 seen by forty or fifty persons at once. Though successful 

 to a certain extent, the reflection of the object from the 

 polished surface of the thick plate-glass interfered with the 

 definition, except to those who were in the direct line of 

 vision. In succeeding years he experimented with oiled 

 silk, tracing paper, and the like, and by the use of good 

 object glasses, coupled with a front lens of special construc- 

 tion and a smaller screen of tracing paper, he ultimately 

 achieved considerable success in this direction. He was also 

 an adept in the double staining of vegetable tissues. He 

 was at one time the honorary secretary of the Manchester 

 Scientific Students' Association, and was one of the founders 

 of the Leeuwenhceck Microscopical Club. For the latter 

 Club he prepared more than twenty-five subjects since its 

 foundation in 1867, many of which were also communicated 

 to our Natural History Section. He was the first to intro- 

 duce to microscopists the use of benzole as a solvent for 

 Canada balsam, and of a mixture of naphthaline and 

 stearine for embedding purposes. Just before his death he 

 had devised a new form of microtome in which the cutting 

 edge was fixed, and by means of which continuous sections 

 of the object operated upon were produced in their proper 

 sequence. His scientific collections have been presented by 

 his family to personal friends ; his herbarium to Mr. Charles 

 Bailey; and his microscopical slides to members of the 

 Leeuwenhceck Microscopical Club, and a few to our own 

 Society. He was born April loth, 1822, and died 19th 

 October, 1890. 



In Charles Norrish Adams, B.A., the Society has 

 lost one of its youngest and most promising members, 

 Mr. Adams was born at Exeter, in 1864, and received his. 

 school education at the Grammar School there from 1875 

 to 1882. He left in the latter year with a School Exhibition 

 for Christ's College, Cambridge, having obtained an open 



