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194 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECTIONS. 
Mr. WALKER called in question the durability of glycerine 
mounts. Messrs. Peptey and Hirst exhibited slides several 
years old showing no signs of injury. 
Mr. WHITELEGGE exhibited a series of slides arp: the male 
and female ae of the following genera of Cryptogamic plants 
viz. : the Chara (Stoneworts) ; Metzgeria (Liverworts) : : Avebbdaitin 
(Mosses) ; ; and Gleichenia (Ferns 
Dr. Morris showed the following organisms, found by him in 
some ee mud taken from the interior of a Sydney water 
main, viz. : acteria, a recurved sponge spicule and vegetable 
debits: rales. a slide of the bacillus of typhoid fever, taken fro 
a patient, displayed by means of a new } homogenous objective, by 
Messrs. Powell & Lealand, having a numerical angle of 1°5. This 
splendid glass is catalogued by the makers at 
Dr. Wricut exhibited Swift’s new microscope lamp, known as 
the Mayall-Nelson lamp ; also, a double-stained preparation of the 
bacillus of tubercle, taken from the sputa of a consumptive eee 
r. Peptey showed a freshwater gathering from a pond in the 
Botanic Gardens, containing a new species of Melicerta. 
13 JULY, 1888. ” 
Mr. Peptey in the Chair. 
Mr. Wurretrccs exhibited a perfect copy of Baker on the 
Microscope, se shed in 1742, and amare hcl a small sum at 
a Sydney a L | 
Dr. Wri wakowell a slide, by Beck, London, of the comma 
bacillus of ‘the cholera ; also, a slide, by Mé ‘ller, of the diatom 
Amphipleura lindheimeri; einid the new camera facida designed ~ 
by Schréder and made by Ross, London. 
10 AUGUST, 1885. 
Mr. Peptey in the Chair. 
. H. Lanz exhibited the microtome made by the Bausch — 
and Lomb Optical Co., New York; also, E. Bausch’s new self- 
oem turn-table, with an attachment for cutting thin covers, 
and one of the professional series of objectives made by Wales, 
sane, viz., ~, water immersion 170°. 
“Dr. Wricut exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Henry Sha 
c rpe, of 
_Adelong, a parasite of the brush turkey, remarkable for the 
toothed-combed-like process of the inner sides of the tarsi 
14 SEPTEMBER, 1885. 
Mr. Peptey in the Chair. 
__Dr. Morris read a Paper, entitled “ Notes on experiments with _ 
‘ighly refractive “bpatots by mnting rer : 
sss in meting wi piperine and picric acid 3 he likewise 
