328 PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. [*Jo^rnal KyTim 
Bristol Microscopical Society.* 
April 2lst, 1869. 
Mr. W. W. Stoddart, F.G.S., F.C.S., President, in the chair.— The 
minutes of the last meeting having been read and confirmed, the 
evening was spent in the examination of various objects exhibited by 
the members, in accordance with a resolution passed at the last 
meeting of the Society. 
The following were the most interesting of the objects shown : — 
By the President, Crystallized Silicon ; by Mr. S. K. Swayne, 
Sections of adult and adolescent bone ; by Mr. W. Lant Carpenter, 
Specimens of Eozoon and three forms of microspectroscope, showing 
the gradual improvements which had been efiected in the construction 
of the instrument ; by Mr. W. J. Fedden, Sections of Alveolina elUp- 
tica and Lemna (Woolfia) arhiza ; by Mr. T. Isaac, Melicerta ringens; 
by Mr. Yabbicorn, Spinal vessels from the root of the Hyacinthe ; by 
Mr. Tibbetts, Sections of Spinal Cord ; by Mr. Leipner, Odontophores 
of seventy species of gasteropodous moUusks ; by Mr. F. R. Martin, 
a series of fine transparent injections, and slides of Bisulphuret of Tin, 
Berberine, and a series of selected diatoms ; by the Secretary, Section 
of the bill of Platypus anatinus, outer coating. 
* Eeport furnished by the Secretary. 
