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the cops visible, and thus giving rise to the illusion that it 

 was due to the lighting of the gas. 



Professor H. B. DlXON, F.R.S., gave an account of 

 M. MoiSSAN's isolation of fluorine, as experimentally 

 illustrated at the meeting of the British Association at 

 Nottingham. 



The Rev. Thomas P. Kirkman, M.A., F.R.S., read a 

 paper on the " K-partitions of the R-gon." 



[Microscopical and Natural History Section^ 



Ordinary Meeting, October 9th, 1893. 



Mr. Peter Cameron, F.E.S., in the Chair. 



Mr. HYDE referred to the past summer as having been 

 highly favourable to the growth of maize in this country, 

 and specially mentioned that grown in Alexandra Park, 

 specimens of which were seven and eight feet in height with 

 cobs in an almost ripe condition. Other plants noticed 

 growing in the park were: — the castor oil plant, the tobacco 

 plant, the mallow, the eucalyptus. 



