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posed that a selection of them should be engraved for publication 
in the Journal, with a view of showing how large and interesting a 
field of discovery exists for persons provided with a Microscope, 
during long voyages. He also proposed in connection with the 
same subject, that an excellent Memoir on Animalculus and other 
organized bodies, which ^ive a colour to the Sea, by Camille Da- 
reste, should be re-published among the selections. It appeared 
originally in the Anneles des Sciences Naturelles, and has been 
translated for the Edinburglj Netv Philosophical Journal. 
The subject w^as referred to the Committee of Papers. 
The Committee h^ve to acknowledge the receipt of the follow- 
ing Papers. 
The Study of Living Languages, by Colonel A. Cotton. 
Suggestions for Weights and Measures for India, by W. H. 
Bayley, Esq. 
A plan for taking Stereoscopic Portraits with a common Ca- 
mera, by Lieut. Paxton,/ro?w Dr. Scott. 
The Oxymel Process in Photography, by J. Tawse, Esq. 
