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this we should bear in mind, that inventions do not spring 
into existence perfect from their birth, like Pallas from the 
brain of Jupiter, but they come from the prior labours of 
many brains, and he is the true inventor who first collects 
the essence of and gives the stamp of vitality to those labours. 
In this sense the invention of steam navigation will for ever 
illustrate the name of Robert Fulton. 
MICROSCOPICAL SECTION. 
19th January, 1863. 
Mr. Joseph Sidebotham, Vice-President of the Section, 
in the Chair. 
Captain Isaac Tessyman, of the ship “ Ann Mary,” pre- 
sented four soundings off the coasts of Patagonia, Singin, 
Malay Peninsula, and at Algoa Bay, taken during his late 
voyage to San Francisco, Singapore, &c. 
Captain J. B. Husband, of the ship “Mutlali,” presented 
three soundings taken off Orissa, and the Black Pagoda on 
the coast of Bengal. 
Mr. Latham presented mounted slides of the skin of the 
Muraena Guttata, cocoon of silk worm, and cuticle of 
Gladiolus. 
Mr. John Slagg, jun., presented mounted specimens of 
floats and ovaries of Ianthina ; shells of ditto ; berry of Fueus 
