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wanted to prove that the best object-glasses had some small but 
important residual error, and could be improved by the use of the 
means which he j^roposed. 
The thanks of the Society were voted to Mr. Crisp for his paper. 
The President announced that they had received two pamphlets on 
diatoms from Professor Cleve, and that a number of specimens in 
illustration had been sent for examination. Dr. Millar had also 
brought with him a singularly beautiful species of sponge, Acarnus 
imominatus Gray, and Mr. Curties exhibited a number of specimens of 
stained tissues. 
Donations to the Library since February 6, 1878 : 
From 
Nature. Weekly The Editor. 
Athenmum. Weekly Ditto. 
Society of Arts Journal. Weekly Societif. 
Bulletin de la Societe Beige de Microscopie Ditto. 
Bulletin de la Societe Botanique de France Ditto. 
Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society Ditto. 
Saint Louis Medical and Surgical Journal, Feb. 1878 Editor. 
Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool, 
1876 and 1877 Society. 
Journals of the Linnean Society Ditto. 
Brooke’s Introduction to Crystallography F. Crisp, Esq. 
Catalogue and Description of the Karities belonging to the Royal 
Society. By N. Grew, M.D., 1681 Ditto. 
Amphitheatrum Zootomicum. By M. Bernardo Valentine, 1720 .. Ditto. 
The Microscopist. By Dr. J. Wythes, 1853 Ditto. 
Dialogues on the Microscope. By Rev. J. Joyce .. .c .. .. Ditto. 
Two Papers on Diatoms from the Arctic Sea. By Prof. P. S. Cleve Author. 
John Naish Smart, Esq., and Thomas Bolton, Esq., were elected 
Fellows of the Society. 
Walter W. Beeves, 
Assist. -Secretary . 
