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PEOCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 
The Conversazione. 
The following is the list of objects exhibited at the Conversazione held 
on November 30th, 1892, in the Banqueting Saloon, St. James’s Hall 
Kestaurant : — 
Mr. T. D. Aldous : — Photographs of old Microscopes. 
Mr. J. M. Allen : — Eotifera, viz. Brachionus pala, Eucblanis lyra, Noteus 
quadricornis, and Polyartlira sp. 
Mr. F. W. Andrews : — Section of Fossil Coral ; Section of Garden Pea ; 
Melicerta ringens. 
Eev. G. Bailey : — Foraminifera. 
Mr. E. E. Branham : — Pond-life. 
Mr. E. Bartlett: — Vorticella sp., from the Serpentine. 
Mr. W. E. Baxter : — Aulacodiscus dispersus x 600. 
Messrs. E. and J. Beck: — Amphipleura pellucida ; Scales of Podura 
(Lepidocyrtus curvicollis ) ; Leaf of Vallisneria , showing circu- 
lation of sap ; Bacillus tuberculosis in sputum. — All the 
foregoing objects shown under a 1/12 Oil-immersion Objec- 
tive. 
Mr. J. B. Bessell : — Photomicrographs of Diatoms taken by Mr. W. E. 
Brown. 
Mr. W. A. Bevington : — Head of Spider. 
Mr. E. T. Browne : — Sarcodictyon catenata , from Port Erin, Isle of Man. 
Mr. J. Browning : — Microscopes and Spectroscopes. 
Mr. W. Burton : — Lophopus crystallinus and Eotifers. 
Mr. F. Chapman : — Foraminifera from the Gault of Folkestone. 
Mr. W. J. Chapman: — Pond-life. 
Mr. H. G. Coombs : — Spines of Echinus. 
Mr. T. Curtie^ : Licmophora ; Spines of Echinus. 
Mr. E. Dadswell : — Pond-life. 
Mr. F. Enock : — Heads of Insects. 
Mr. F. W. Ersser : — Circulation of the Blood in the Foot of a Frog. 
Mr. F. Fitch : — Mouth of Bibio sp. ; Mouth of Saw-fly ; Mesosternum 
of Blow-fly. 
Mr. T. E. Freshwater : — Bees and Bee Culture. 
Mr. J. W. Gifford : — Gland in Tongue of Kitten, preparation fixed by 
injection with osmio-aceto-chromic solution, stained logwood 
and safranin ; Kidney of Kitten, preparation fixed by injec- 
tion with chromic acid, stained logwood. 
Mr. C. H. Gill : — Pure Cultivation of a Species of Nitzschia ; Pleurosigma 
attenuatum invaded by a Parasitic Fungus ; Photomicrographs 
of Diatoms. 
Captain C. E. Gladstone, E.N. : — Transverse Section of Leaf-bud of 
Sycamore. 
Mr, H. Groves : — Batrachospermum atrum ; Nitella opaca , showing 
cyclosis. 
