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Ordinary Meeting, February 9th, 1886. 
Charles Bailey, F.L.S., in the Chair. 
The Chairman drew attention to the loss the Society had 
recently sustained in the decease of one of its Honorary 
Members, M. Barrd de Saint Tenant. 
Mr. F. J. Faraday, F.L.S., exhibited photographs of a 
culture of the anthrax bacillus with spores, the mesentery 
and the blood of a guinea-pig, killed by anthrax, a culture 
of the microbe of swine fever, and “colonies” of the lactic 
ferment in the beaded form, received by him from M. Pasteur. 
MICROSCOPICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SECTION. 
Ordinary Meeting, January 18th, 1886. 
Thomas Alcock, M.D., President of the Section, 
in the Chair. 
“ On the Hymenoptera of the Hawaiian Islands,” by the 
Eev. T. Blackburn, B.A., and P. Cameron. 
The investigation of the Natural History of Oceanic 
Islands is now rightly regarded as a subject of great interest 
and importance. Not only do their Fauna and Flora throw 
much light on the manner in which species have been 
distributed over the globe ; but many of the species them- 
selves are, from the peculiarities of their structure, of 
