124 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECTIONS. 



Dr. Wright exhibited six very excellent photographs, showing 

 great finish and fidelity, taken by Mr. Francis of Lavender Bay. 

 They were microscopic enlargements of the male flea, the eye of a 

 house-fly, and the tongues of the cricket, wasp, blow-fly, and bee, 

 and were taken with Ross's objectives and a two candle power 

 electric lamp. 



Mr. Wiesener showed Leiss's new catalogue of the objectives 

 and eye-pieces made from the new Schott glasses. 



JULY 11, 1887. 



Mr. F. B. Kyngdon in the Chair. 



Dr. Wright exhibited the new four-guinea microscope of Beck, 

 including two eye-pieces, two objectives, and iris diaphragm, and 

 showed by its means three new slides of diatoms by Hinton, of 

 London, and microscopic photographs of the planets. 



Mr. Webb exhibited some of the so-called "ground nuts" from 

 the Great Extended Gold Mine, Forest Reefs, near Orange. 



AUGUST 8, 1887. 



Dr. Wright presented to the Section four of the new bevelled- 

 edge plate glass slides made by the Palmer Slide Company of 

 Ohio, U.S. 



Mr. Walker exhibited some fresh-water diatoms under one of 

 Baker's travelling microscopes. 



Mr. Wiesener exhibited one of Baker's new Histological 

 Microscopes, with the differential-screw fine adjustment • also two 

 simple dissecting microscopes made by himself, and intended for 

 the use of amateurs. 



