396 ie agra ‘PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECTIONS. 
| “-MICROSCOPICAL SECTION 
: PRELIMINARY MEETING, HELD 12 APPIL, 1881. 
ea Dr. WriguT was voted in the Chair. 
t was decided to hold the meetings of the Seite on the - 
evenings of the second Monday in each month. The following 
Chairman: Dr. WricHr. eign = ap Com- ; 
mittee: Dr. Morris, Mr. icstenow: Mr. G 
Mr. T. Bri | a 
9 MAY, 1881. ae 
Dr. Wricut in the Chair. “s 
The Chairman exhibited a new Tolles’ +45 inch objective, the 2 
rformance of which was remarkably satisfactory on a yalve OB 
A, pellucida mounted in the bisulphide of carbon and phosphorus 
me . In ordering this objective Dr. Wricut sugge a 
that the front of the setting should be constructed of gold, as 
being the metal least liable to be chemically — ae by the eS 
i he lens. Mr. Tolles 
and had had the front gilt instead. Mr. H. O. WALKER an exhibited o 
a Swift's }-inch objective, with which he successfully resolved P.- , 
angulatum. 
18 JUNE, 1881. 
Dr. Wricut in the Chair. 
Dr. Wied: read some notes on the pa rea perma | 
and inch homo 
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Bat 8, és ca were ee ae 
; dered ahees 90,000 to ie ii 5 
| pee J. “ “e Scotia ry a note from Capt. ap 1ton i 
us appearance of the sea n lat. 11° 58 # 
- oar 51° 3. E (oft the coast of Aden, 100 wet eee of Socotra 
ae a occasioned by ie of animaleule, which ke 
9 appentante of the tropical ORS a yt 
eH JULY, Dat 
ie ae Dr. “Wrrcn in the Chair. atid 
| Waren exhibited 4. cansinas ays resolved , 
‘inch « objective. 
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