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PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 
Meeting of 16th October, 1895, at 20 Hanover Square, W. 
E. M. Nelson, Esq., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The Minutes of the Meeting of 19th June last were read and 
confirmed, and were signed by the Chairman. 
The List of Donations to the Library since the last meeting (exclu- 
sive of exchanges and reprints) was read, and the thanks of the Society 
were voted to the donors. 
From 
Pbycological Memoirs. Pts. 1-3. (4to, London, 1892-5) .. Mr. Frank Crisp. 
L. Wright, A Popular Handbook to the Microscope. (8vo, 
London, 1895) The Publishers. 
Ten Slides for mounting Foraminifera Mr. D. Bryce Scott. 
Mr. A. W. Bennett — with reference to vol. i. of £ Phycological 
Memoirs,’ presented by Mr. Frank Crisp — said that this would prove a 
very valuable addition to the Library of the Society. On the Continent 
and in America every University town was in the habit of publishing 
some scientific work associated with its name, but in this country ther6 
was nothing of this kind undertaken by the great institutions of learning. 
This work of Mr. George Murray perhaps more nearly represented what 
was done by the foreign Universities than anything we had here, giving 
an account of the work which was being done at the British Museum, 
more particularly in relation to the lower forms of vegetable life. 
Mr. Murray, who had lately succeeded Mr. Carruthers as head of the 
Botanical Department at the British Museum, had given great attention 
to this branch, and was in this way giving the result of his researches. 
Dr. W. H. Dallinger thought that the little work by Mr. Lewis 
Wright — £ A Popular Handbook to the Microscope’ — was decidedly one 
of those which would be of great use to the amateur and to the beginner 
in microscopical work. There was always room for a new work of this 
kind, because methods were always improving, and Mr. Wright seemed 
to have brought his description of these quite up to date for the benefit 
of those for whom his book was specially written. 
Prof. Jeffrey Bell said they had received the following letter from 
Mr. D. B. Scott, describing a method of mounting Foraminifera, and 
this was accompanied by a number of specimens, which were handed 
round for the inspection of the Fellows : — 
“Dear Sir, — Your kind favour of September 19th, 1895, received. 
I am sending by parcel post to-day three of the built-up cells for 
mounting 300 opaque Foraminifera ; also two built-up cells for mounting 
sixty opaque Foraminifera, one square and the other circular. I have 
also sent you two built-up cells, one square and the other circular, each 
containing sixty mounted Foraminifera. This will show you better how 
