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anotber specimen of some interest, a section of the lachrymal gland of 
the common turtle, which will be described in the next number of 
this Journal. 
The Chairman then moved the thanks of the meeting to Mr. 
Stewart for his communication. He also called attention to a discovery 
made by Becquerel affecting cell structures, namely, that whenever an 
animal membrane was moistened on both sides by diverse fluids, an 
electrical current was set up, and that this electric action was accom- 
panied by electro-chemical decomposition. 
The thanks of the meeting were unanimously voted to Mr. Charles 
Stewart for his communication. 
The Chairman read the translation of a letter from Count Castra- 
cane, thanking the Society for the honour of being elected a Foreign 
Honorary Fellow. He then announced that, according to their usual 
custom, the meetings of the Society would be adjourned until the first 
Wednesday in October, and that the Society's rooms would be closed 
during the month of August. 
Donations to the Library since May 3, 1876 : 
From 
Nature. Weekly Tlie Editor. 
Athenaeum. Weekly Ditto. 
Society of A rts Journal. Weekly Society. 
Journals of the Linnean Society. Nos. 63 and 83 Ditto. 
Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. No. 126 Ditto. 
Proceedings of the Bristol Naturalists' Society. Vol. I. Part 2 ,. Ditto. 
Monthly Notices of the Royal Society of Tasmania, 1874 .. .. Ditto. 
Bulletin de la Societe' Royal de Botanique de Belgique Ditto. 
Major Fowkes and the Eev. 0. Darby were elected Fellows of the 
Society. 
Waltek W. Keeves, 
^Assist. -Secretary. 
Medical Microscopical Society. 
Friday, May 19, 1876. — Dr. F. Payne, President, in the chair. 
Scirrhosis of Liver in a Child. — Mr. Needham communicated the 
particulars of a case, and showed specimens both of the liver and 
other organs. The child, eet. six years, was admitted as a patient in 
the North-Eastern Hospital, Hackney Eoad, on June 23, 1875. Her 
antecedents were good, and the child's health had never suffered till 
lately, when she was observed to be losing flesh, and six days before 
admission her abdomen began to swell. She had always been well 
taken care of, and had never drunk spirits in any form. In July the 
abdomen was tapped, but soon again refilled. 42 oz. of fluid were 
removed. The child rallied and returned home, but was readmitted 
in December, 1875, much worse, and suffering from attacks of epistaxis 
and haematemesis ; and in January, 1876, she died in convulsions, 
after having vomited a quantity of coffee-ground material. 
Post-mortem examination showed the liver to be " hobnailed," 
indurated, and weighing 19 J oz. It was uniformly straw coloured, 
no puckering of Glisson's capsule, and a section appeared fleshy, 
