Doncaster Microscopical Society

The monthly “paper” meeting of the above society was held in the rooms in High Street, on Wednesday evening, Mr. J. M. Kirk in the chair.

The secretary having read the minutes of the last meeting, one gentleman was elected a member, and one other name being proposed and seconded, is to be balloted for at the next meeting.

The subscription amongst the members for defraying the cost of the late conversazione not quite covering the expenditure, attention was draw to the fact, in the hope that those members who intended to subscribe, would do so without delay.

Mr. Stiles read a paper on “Foramanifera.” [sic]

He explained the meaning of the word, and gave a minute description of the different modes of shell growth, illustrating his remarks be diagrams on the blackboard. The shell parts of Foramanifera [sic] are divided into two classes, Porcellanous and Vitreous.

Drawings and photographs were exhibited of Millioloe, Peneropilis, Pollistomella, etc. and a careful description of orbitolites, which are abundant in dredgings from nearly all warm climates, also textularia from sand deposits at March, in Cambridgeshire.

Mr. stiles next showed examples, and gave full descriptions of the various ways of mounting formanifera. [sic]

An interesting discussion followed, supported by the Chairman, Dr. Mitchell Wilson, Rev. W. Smith, Messrs. Coles, Parkin, Roberts, Barry, Stiles, and others. After votes of thanks to the reader of the paper and the Chairman, the meeting resolved itself into a conversazione.

[The Doncaster, Nottingham, and Lincoln Gazette, 17 December 1880]