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PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECTIONS. 
(IN ABSTRACT.) 
MICROSCOPICAL SECTION. 
Preliminary Meeting, held APRIL, 1884. 
Dr. Wriacut in the Chair. 
Tv was decided to hold the meetings of the Section on the evenings ° 
of the second Monday in each month. The following gentlemen 
.G. D. Himst. Secretary: Mr. F. B. Kynapon. Committee: 
Dr. Morris, Dr. Wricut, Mr. P. R. Peptey, and Mr. R. Fraser. 
12 MAY, 1884. 
Mr. G. D. Hirst in the Chair. 
Dr. Morris Sos, nine slides of A. pellucida, mounted in 
the following media :—dry, balsam, phosphorus, oil cassia, liquid 
amber, sulphur, biniodide ‘of mercury, biniodide of mercury and 
barium, monobromide of naphthalene. 
Mr. Kynepon exhibited a new microtome by Zeiss, a binocular 
microscope by Anderson, with a new a fine adjustment 
nd a new form of achromatic conden 
ber dite orton showed a beautiful ei of gorgonia spicule from 
the Am 
Dr. iain exhibited a pus corpuscle, having radiating pseudo- 
podia, from a case of chronic cystitis, stained by a new fluid and 
mounted in a new medium. 
Mr. Hirst showed the bright scarlet stentor Stentor igneus, 
from a pond in the Botanic Gardens. 
Dr. Morris—A. pellucida, mounted in phosphorus, beautifully 
resolved with Powell and Lea Jan d’s new }in. oil immersion 
objective, having an angle of 112° 
9 JUNE, 1884. 
Mr. G. D. Hirst in the Chair. 
Dr. Morris exhibited Spencer’s new | }-in. Sa ee ie immer- 
sion objective, having a numerical aperture of 1:37, and balsam 
angle 127°—in every respect a superb aes; also a new 7 fluid for 
homogeneous — viz., oil of resin, used pure, or thinned 
with oil of cedar. 
