PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 
Microscoricatn Society. 
OcroBeEr 11¢h, 1865. 
JamMES GuAIsHER, Esq., President, in the Chair. 
Mr. Roper read a communication received by him from the 
Royal Society of Tasmania, and added that copies of the “ Trans- 
actions ”’ of that Society had been transmitted and would be placed 
in the library. 
The Secretary stated that there were no papers to be read. He 
also announced the resignation of the late Curator of the Society, 
‘and the appointment of Mr. Evans to that office. The members 
were requested to return to the Secretary all books, &c., belong- 
ing to the Society, in order that a proper account might be taken 
of the Society’s property. With reference to papers to be read 
at future meetings the President suggested that he should be in- 
formed beforehand of their subjects, so that notice might be given 
in the ‘Athenzeum,’ and otherwise, thus giving gentlemen qualified 
to discuss them the opportunity of coming to the meetings pro- 
perly prepared. 
«s Mr. Ince called the attention of the Society to some diseased 
wheat from Droxford, Hants. It was grown on a field of three 
acres and three quarters, and the crop was so seriously damaged 
that the whole sold for only £6. He hoped by thus bringing the 
matter before the Society to elicit some information as to the 
nature of the disease in question. 
Mr. Stack said—If I had known that there were no papers to 
be laid before the Society this evening, I would have brought and 
shown to the Society the new form of spectroscope I received, a 
few days ago, from Mr. Browning. I expressed at the last meet- 
ing a belief that the best spectroscope would be a direct vision 
one. I thought that looking round a corner was an inconvenient 
thing for microscopists to do, and if a spectroscope could be 
arranged to pull in and out with facility, and capable of being 
adjusted with nicety, it would be highly appreciated. Now Mr. 
Browning has been experimenting with Mr. Sorby for some time 
on a spectroscope which is being brought out, and I believe he 
