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Dr. J. Couper Johnston and Mr. Anderson were duly elected 
as members. 
The Secretary read a paper by Mr. Bale on Mounting Diatoms 
in Symmetrical Groups , and exhibited a series of slides in illustra¬ 
tion. 
The Secretary also read from the “Journal of the Royal 
Microscopical Society” a paper by Mr. Frank Crisp On the State of 
Microscopy in England. 
3 0 th Sep tern her, 1880. 
Ordinary Meeting. 
The President, Dr. Ralph, in the chair. 
Mr. Frank Crisp was duly elected an honorary member, and 
Mr. W. T. Moffatt a country member. 
Dr. Ralph described an easy method of constructing growing- 
slides by cutting cells of various forms out of glass of different 
thicknesses, and using wax to cement the various parts together. 
Several specimens were exhibited. 
' The Secretary read a note by Mr. Wooster On an Impromptu 
Bramhall Illuminator , consisting of the ordinary mirror removed 
from the microscope and laid upon the stage below the slide, the 
light being thrown upon it and reflected upwards through the 
slide. 
