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Fellows of the Eoyal Microscopical Society has been lately engaged 
in experiments on this interesting subject, and that he has discovered 
several most remarkable facts corroborative of Pouchet's views. In- 
deed, we believe he has watched the progress of a bacterium in its 
passage into a ciliated infusorium — Kolpoda or Paramecium. 
PKOCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES.* 
KoYAL Microscopical Society.! 
King's College, \Uh April, 1869. 
The Eev. J. B. Eeade, F.E.S. (President), in the chair. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 
A list of donations which had been made to the library was read 
by the Secretary. 
It was also announced that a number of papers written by the late 
Dr. W. B. Herapath, of Bristol, had been received from his widow, 
and that they were sent for distribution among those Fellows of the 
Society who might desire to possess them. 
Mr. Slack announced that Mr. Crouch had presented to the Society 
one of his Universal Silver Side-reflectors ; and also that Col. Hennell 
had presented, through Mr. Curteis, three slides of DiatomacesB 
mounted on the weed ; that Mr. W. T. Suffolk had made a donation 
of a water-colour drawing of Plumatella rejpens ; and Mr. Collins five 
interesting slides. 
A vote of thanks was unanimously passed to the donors above 
named. 
The President then called upon Dr. Lionel Beale, F.E.S., to read 
a paper on " Protoplasm and Living Matter." 
At the close of the paper the President announced that Professor 
Huxley would have been present at the meeting had he not been 
engaged elsewhere in the discharge of his duties as the President of 
another Society, whose meeting was being held that evening. 
The President then invited Dr. Wallich to offer a few remarks on 
the subject of Dr. Beale's paper. 
Dr. Wallich said he would content himself with briefly referring 
to one point only. He believed that theories upon the subject in 
question had been propounded with a degree of dogmatism which the 
ascertained facts did not warrant. After considerable study of deep- 
* Secretaries ol Societies will greatly oblige us by writing out their reports 
legibly — especially the technical terms — and by "underlining" words, such as 
specific names, which must be printed in italics. They will thus ensure accuracy 
and enhance the value of their proceedings. — Ed. M. M. J. 
t Report supplied by the Secretaries. 
