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MICEOSCOPICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SECTION. 
Ordinary Meeting, February 15th, 1886. 
Mr. R D. Darbishire, F.G.S., in the Chair. 
Mr. Hyde showed some feathers which he had mounted 
between plates of glass for exhibition by means of the 
magic lantern, and Mr. Brothers exhibited the new Lantern 
Microscope which has recently been presented to the Parent 
Society by Mr. Wilde, and mentioned that the Section would 
have the privilege of using the instrument. 
Mr. R D. Darbishire exhibited specimens of Eapana 
(Ecphora Conrad) quadricostatus. Say, fossil from Miocene 
beds in Maryland, U.S.A., and illustrated its alliances with 
specimens of Rapana Thomasii, from Japan (with oper- 
culum), and R. bulhosa (including a young one with a 
marked tendency to disconnection between the whorls) — 
and specimens of Latiaxis Mawce; and of Coralliophila 
(Latiaxis) Benoiti and tortilis (?); and further, specimens of 
Melapium bulbus Wood, from Port Elizabeth. 
Mr. Charles Bailey, F.L.S., exhibited specimens of 
Cotula coronopilia, L., from the neighbourhood of Leasowe, 
near Birkenhead, collected by Mr. Henry Searle and Mr. 
Abel Bottomley, both of Ashton, in August of last year. 
The plant appears to have been established in this part of 
Cheshire for several years, and was probably a castaway 
from the grounds of Leasowe Castle, or an introduction with 
foreign ballast. 
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