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the furnace. The presence of the metal may be demonstrated 
in a somewhat amusing manner by bringing a magnet under the 
slide. The globular form of these bodies is probably due to their 
having been thrown off in scintillations, as, in the molten state, 
they would assume the spherical shape when carried along by 
the draught. Hydrochloric and nitric acids exert very little in- 
fluence on the ferruginous globes. 
NOTICES OF MEETINGS. 
ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY.—The Annual 
Soirte of the Ashton-under-Lyne Biological Society was held on Saturday, Oct. 
7th, in the Mechanics’ Institution. Mr. J. R. Byron presided. The report, 
which was read by Mr. J. S. Rouse, the Hon. Secretary, stated that during the 
year, in addition to a series of winter lectures and summer rambles,jthe mem- 
had been engaged in collecting the material for a list of fauna and flora of 
the Ashton district, and several instalments of this had appeared in the Ashton 
Reporter. \n the coming Session the Committee hoped to draw special 
attention to the scientific collections in the Ashton Free Library. The adoption 
of the Report was moved by Mr. J. E. Sunderland, who congratulated the 
members on the work of the year, but doubted the expediency of reproducing 
in the new flora the stations named by Richard Buxton, as the great changes 
since his day must have eradicated the plants from many of the habitations re- 
corded in the “* Botanical Guide.” Mr. C. E. Redfern, in seconding the resolu- 
tion, gave some details of the work in and said that it was not intended 
in the final issue to adopt the materials of Buxton except where they had been 
verified in the present day. Mr. W. E. A. Axon, in supporting the 
resolution, hoped that the lists, at least in a preliminary form would be ready for 
the South meeting of the British Association, at which the Lancashire 
Scientific ieties, and especially those having a large proportion of artisan 
members, ought to be well represented. The Keport having si adopted, the 
Chairman said that they had now come to the most important business of the 
evening. This was the presentation of an address and purse to Mr. Thomas 
Whitelegge, a workman naturalist, of whose life and remarkable powers of 
observation an account was given in the Guardian on Friday last. Mr. Byrom, 
in making the tation, assured Mr, Whitelegge of the admiration and con- 
tinued goodwill of his fellow members and of their earnest wishes for his pros- 
perity in the colony of New South Wales, to which he is going. A letter was 
read from Sir J. D. Hooker testifying in the warmest manner his appreciation 
of Mr. Whitelegge’s botanical researches. Mr. Whitelegge having made a 
suitable response, the formal pear A closed with a vote of thanks to the 
Chairman, which was proposed by Mr. J. D. Reyner. Mr. D. F. Howorth, in 
seconding this, said that Mr. Whitelegge’s advice had been of t service[to 
the Committee of the Ashton Free Li with the selection of books for that 
Institution, The remainder of the evening was devoted to the examination of 
numerous objects of natural history exhibited by the members and their friends. 
LIVERPOOL MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY.—The seventh meeting vf 
the 14th session of this Society was held at the Royal Institution, Colquitt- 
street, on Friday, Oct. 6th, when, on the nomination of the President, Mr, W 
