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PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 
The thanks of the Society were also given to Messrs. Watson and 
Sons for the Microscopes which had been lent for the occasion. 
The Meeting then resolved itself into a Conversazione, at which the 
following Instruments, Objects, &c. were exhibited : — 
Chas. L. Curties (C. Baker) : — An electrically heated Hot-stage for 
the Microscope. 
W. Watson and Sons : — A Dissecting Stage applicable to an ordinary 
Microscope. 
Mr. A. W. Bird : — Lophopus crystallinus. 
Mr. G. P. Dineen : — Daphnia pulex stained with a solution of 
fuchsin. 
Mr. A. Earland : — Hydatina sentci. | 
Mr. Ersser : — Melicerta ringens. 
Mr. G. T. Harris : — Hydra viridis, showing ovary and testes, the ovary 
in the amoeboid stage. 
Mr. J. T. Holder: — Melicerta ringens. 
Mr. John Hood : — Bursaria truncatella , Conochilus volvox , Stephano- 
ceros EicTihorni , Volvox globator. 
Mr. H. Lloyd : — Daphnia pulex. 
Mr. Macer : — Cristatella mucedo. 
Mr. Mainland : — Draparnaldia plumosa, and Bivularia sp. 
Dr. Measures : — Steplianoceros Eichhorni. 
Mr. Muiron : — Various Rotifers. 
Mr. Rousselet: — Fredericella sultana , Asplanchna priodonta, Bra- 
chionus pala , Limnias annulatus . L. cornuella, Mastigocerca bicarinata, 
M. lophoessa , and Synchseta pectinata, mounted. 
Mr. Scourfield : — Simocephalus serrulatus (previously unrecorded in 
Great Britain). 
Mr. Sid well : — Simocephalus serrulatus. 
Mr. Soar : — Hydrophantes dispar. 
Mr. Taverner: — Limnesia histrionica. 
Mr. Traviss : — Notops brachionus. 
