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to cause the disease known in India as " Surrah " in horses and 

 cattle, and perhaps also with that causing malarial fever in man. 



Mr. MacDonnell exhibited some of Mr. Sharp's (of Adelong) 

 beautiful entomological slides. 



Mr. Whitelegge exhibited the calcareous wheel-plates of 

 Chirodota and several other Rotifer slides, these organisms being 

 killed with their coronse fully extended. 



Mr. Edmunds exhibited a small Nachet microscope. 



Monthly Meeting held OCTOBER loth, 1888. 



Mr. F. B. Kyngdon in the Chair. 



Mr. Wiesener exhibited five new models of microscopes made 

 by Anderson of London. Also a 2J inch objective made in his 

 establishment, (being the first objective made in the colony,) and 

 which he presented to the Society. 



Mr. MacDonnell read a communication from Mr. E. Bostock 

 of Stone, England, asking for co-operation in investigating the 

 Oribatidse, or beetle-mites. 



Monthly Meeting held NOVEMBER 12th, 1888. 



Mr. F. B. Kyngdon in the Chair. 



Mr. Whitelegge exhibited a slide showing embryo starfish, 

 and fully described the development of the Australian form 

 Aster ina exigua. 



Mr. Kyngdon exhibited a brownish reticulated mass found in 

 an old wooden house, and recognized as the excreta of white ants. 

 Also some curiously punctured gall-nuts or gum-leaves. 



PERCY J. EDMUNDS, Hon. Sec. 



