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the action of an acid on vegetable spectra, with scale for measuring 
attached. 
Mr. B. W. Priest : Section of sponge, Farrea spinulata. 
Mr. Walter W. Beeves : Some insects found on moss in Scotland. 
Mr. Chas. Stewart : Ganglia and nerves of Pterotrachea. 
Mr. J. H. Stuard : Myrmeleon formicarius from Sweden. 
Mr. J. W. Stephenson : Podura scale with a ^th by Zeiss under 
one of his erecting binocular microscopes, and A, B, and C eye- 
pieces. 
Mr. A. Topping : Sections of beard of turkey, showing the 
peculiar folds in the skin from which the hairs grow. 
Mr. F. H. Ward : SurireUa gemma with an T ^th immersion glass 
of Merz and quartz eye-piece. 
The Eoyal Microscopical Society : A binocular eye-piece made and 
presented to the Society by Mr. Ahrens. . 
Donations to the Library, &c., since June 6, 1877 : 
From 
Nature. Weekly The Editor. 
Athenaeum Ditto. 
Society of Arts Journal ' . . .. Society. 
Bulletin de la Socie'te Botanique de France. 3 parts .. .. Ditto. 
Bulletin de la Societe Botanique de Belgique. June, 1877 .. Ditto. 
Erupcion Ofitica del Ayuntamiento de Molledo. Por Don 
F. Q. Rodriguez Author. 
Journal of the Quekett Club. No. 34 Club. 
Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. No. 131 .. .. Society 
Popular Science Review. July, 1877 Publisher. 
Mineralogical Magazine. 2 parts Society. 
Report- and Proceedings of the Croydon Microscopical Club. 
1875 Club. 
Papers of the Eastbourne Natural History Society. 1876-77 Society. 
Report to the Surgeon-General U.S.A. on the Transport of 
Sick and Wounded by Pack Animals Surgeon-General. 
Transactions of the American Medical Association. 2 vols. 
1876 Association. 
Catalogue of American Palaeozoic Fossils. By S. A. Miller.l Fredk. Habirshate, 
1877 / Esq. 
Journals of the Liunean Society Society. 
The American Journal of Microscopy. 4 parts Editor. 
Osservazioui e Note ad Elucidazione Dello Sviluppo Delle 
Diatomee. Del Sig. Conte F. Castracane Author. 
A Binocular Eye-piece — Ahrens, Esq. 
Walter W. Beeves, 
Assist. -Secretary. 
King’s College, November 7, 1877. 
H. C. Sorby, Esq., F.B.S., President, in the chair. 
The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and confirmed. 
A list of donations to the Society was read by the Secretary, and 
the thanks of the meeting were voted to the donors. 
Four gentlemen were proposed for membership, and the certifi- 
cates in their favour were ordered to be suspended in the usual 
manner. 
