CANTERBURY MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11756, 21 July 1916, Page 1

CANTERBURY MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY.

v —. A mooting of the Canterbury Micro- I scopieal Society was hold last 'evening,, j Mr 0. B. Morris presiding over a largo ! attendance of members and visiter?. | A number or" now members wcrft i elected. j After the usual business had hot'n | disposed of. Mr Morris gave v. descrip. ! tion of the protoza kingdom, dealing | nith sarcouina, rliizopoda,- ioraruini- j i'cra, heliozoa and radiolan'a. He ad-| vised the members to adhere to a uiii- ! form classification, that adopted by j Cambridge University being probably ! the best. His remarks were illustrated ' by drawings on the black hoard. ! A practical demonstration of diatom ' mounting was provided by Mr Morris, j and a number of the members success- j fully mounted slides of d ; ;;tc,;us from \ the Simbirsk deposit in IJussia. Slides i of <dob serina ooze* were also success-i Hilly dealt witlj, ! }lv E. E. Stark reported that the \ microscopic lantern would-be ready for ' tlie.j'.ext nieetinp. The subject of the next ?v..v-tine: will bo a paper on •• Hy/lra Veridis."'' by i Mr J. W. Campbell.