"Without doubt, the diatoms were alive. Nothing was used but filtered water from the ship's tanks, and I have not the least doubt as to their revification. Captain Mortimer is an accomplished naturalist, and not a man to make idle assertions, or be easily led towards error." Mr. Crisp described and exhibited (1) the "Miniature Microscope of Mr. Browning (see p. 296), intended as a more powerful substitute for a hand lens, and capable of holding ordinary slides. The one exhibited, which was in nickel silver, was examined by the meeting. (2) The "Transporteur Monnier," which was said to remedy the annoyance occasioned by displacement of an object (which had been carefully arranged in the proper position in glycerine, &c.) when the covering glass was put on (see p. 265). Whether there was any such an evil to be corrected, those who were more experienced in mounting than he was would be able to say. (3) An objective made by the Bausch and Lomb Optical Company, of New York (under Mr. Gundlach's patent), with the " new correction adjustment (see p. 252). Mr. Ingpen undertook to examine the objective, and to be prepared to say something on the usefulness or otherwise of the addition at the next meeting. دو The President announced that the first of the "Scientific Evenings" for the present session would take place on Wednesday, 27th November, when he hoped the Fellows would assist in making the meeting as interesting as the previous ones had been. Donations since the June meeting (exclusive of exchanges): American Journal of Microscopy, April to September From The Editor. Author. Ditto. .. Mr. Frank Crisp. Mr. F. Habirshaw. Nos. 1 and 2 Memorias da Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa for 1875 Society. Academy. Society. Mr. Frank Crisp. Academy. Orth, Dr. J., Cursus der normalen Histologie, 1878 Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. Vol. V., No. 6 Verhandlungen des Naturhistorisch-Medicinischen Vereins zu Heidel- Club. The following gentlemen were elected Fellows of the Society:Major A. Morton Festing, F.M.S., Staff Paymaster Army Pay Department; John Borland, Esq., Member of the Pharmaceutical Board of Examiners for Scotland. WALTER W. REEVES, Assist.-Secretary. CHARLES STEWART, ESQ., M.R.C.S. | FRANK CRISP, ESQ., LL.B., B.A. Council. JOHN BADCOCK, ESQ. WILLIAM A. BEVINGTON, Esq. EMANUEL WILKINS JONES, Esq. JOHN MATTHEWS, ESQ., M.D. SAMUEL JOHN MOINTIRE, ESQ. JOHN MILLAR, Esq., L.R.C.P.E. THOMAS PALMER, ESQ., B.Sc. FREDERIC H. WARD, ESQ., M.R.C.S. Assistant-Secretary. MR. WALTER W. REEVES. Remaining Meetings of the Society for 1878 (at 8 P.M.):— THE The Society was founded in 1839 (incorporated by Royal Charter in 1866) for the communication and discussion of observations and discoveries tending to improvements in the construction and in the mode of application of the Microscope, or relating to subjects of Microscopical observation. The Society consists of Fellows, Honorary Fellows, Corresponding Fellows, and Associates. The Council is elected annually by the Fellows, and is composed of the President, four Vice-Presidents, Treasurer, two Secretaries, and twelve other Fellows. Candidates for admission as Fellows must be proposed by three or more Fellows, who must sign a Certificate of Recommendation stating the names, residence, description, and qualifications of the candidate, of whom the proposer whose name stands first upon the Certificate must have personal knowledge. This Certificate is read at the next Ordinary (or Annual) Meeting, and the Candidate is balloted for at the succeeding Meeting. The Entrance Fee is 21. 28., and the Annual Subscription (payable in advance on election, and subsequently on 1st January annually) is 21. 2. Future payments of the latter may be compounded for at any time by a payment of 211. Fellows elected in the months of October, November, or December will not be called upon for a second subscription during the succeeding year, and Fellows absent from the United Kingdom for a year, or permanently residing abroad, are exempted from one-half the usual subscription during absence. The Ordinary Meetings of the Society commence on the second Wednesday in October, and are continued on the second Wednesday in each month until June. They are held at King's College, Strand, W.C., and Visitors are admitted by the introduction of Fellows. commence at 8 P.M. The Journal of the Society, containing its Transactions and Proceedings, with other Microscopical Information, is published bi-monthly, and is forwarded free of charge to all Fellows. The Library of the Society at King's College is open for the use of Fellows on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, from 11 A.M. to 4 P.M., and on Wednesdays from 7 to 10 P.M. It is closed during August. Forms of proposal for Fellowship, and any further information, may be obtained by application to the Secretaries, or to Mr. Walter W. Reeves, Assistant-Secretary, King's College, Strand, W.C. OF THE ROYAL MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY. VOL. I. No. 6. CONTENTS. TRANSACTIONS OF THE SOCIETY— .. I. ON A SPECIES OF ACARUS, BELIEVED TO BE NEW TO BRITAIN. III. ON THE MEASUREMENT OF THE ANGLE OF APERTURE OF .. IV. IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MICRO-SPECTROSCOPE. By F. H. Ward, NOTES AND MEMORANDA .. The Gemmiparous and Fissiparous Reproduction of the Noctiluca (Nocti- .. Liberation of the Zoospores, Antherozoids, &c., in the Lower Plants Cutaneous Glands Observations on Saprolegniex 349 350 Wartelia, a new Genus of Annelida, wrongly considered as the Embryo of "Limits of Accuracy in Measurement with the Microscope" The Influence of Repose and Motion in the Phenomena of Life Microscopical Study of the Ashes of Leaves A New Device for Dark-Field Illumination The Termination of the Nerves in the Striated Muscles.. Life-History of Bacterium termo and Micrococcus |