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to express. We notice with interest that the authors 
employed with success for the staining of their microbe 
the same stains (gentian violet and corallin prepared by 
Grubler Leipsic), which in our hands and in those of Dr. 
Daniels, who is at present one of the members of the 
Imperial Commission appointed to investigate the micro- 
organisms of malarial fever in India, Africa, and else- 
where, proved quite inoperative to dete6l any micro- 
organisms in the majority of the sediments from the 
faulty rums examined by us. 
The Librarian laid over copies of the Supplement to 
the Library Catalogue for 1898. 
Mr. Hargreaves requested that the motion for training 
youths at the Botanic Gardens, of which he had given 
notice some months ago, should be brought up at the 
meeting. 
The thanks ot the Society were accorded for the 
following donations : — 
To the Library: — From the Government, Dr. Morris' 
Commercial Fibres and Plants yielding Commercial 
India-Rubber ; from Mr. and Mrs. Veley, the Micro- 
organism in Faulty Rum ; from Hon. N. D. Davis, 
Memorandum of Official Services of William Walker; 
from the Mineralised Rubber Company, N.Y., An India- 
Rubber Door Mat. 
To the Museum : — Quartz Slab, probably derived from 
fossilized Vegetable Matter, Amatuk Falls, Potaro River, 
by J. B. Harrison ; Farine from Cayenne, by A. A, Nedd ; 
Two Grebes, by A. A. Craigen ; Spiny-tailed Duck, and a 
Grebe, by John Junor ; Small Ant-eater and young, by A. 
Van Sertima ; Fox and a Bee, by G. S. Jenman ; Pigmy 
Heron, by F. V. McConnell ; Giant Cockroach, by W. J. 
Smyth, 2 Birds-nests, by S. B. Warren ; Skin of Aboma 
Snake, by John Grant ; Madrepore Coral, by H. Weeber; 
