PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 
Microscoricat Socrery. 
March 14th, 1866. 
JAMES Guasuter, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair. 
THE minutes of the previous meeting having been read and 
confirmed, 
A MEMBER inquired, in reference to the proposed incorporation 
of the Society, if it could take the ordinary style of the “‘ Royal’ 
Microscopical Society.” 
The PrestpEnt explained that, to entitle the Society to use the 
style “ Royal,” it was necessary that some royal personage should 
be connected with it. The primary object would be to obtain the 
Charter in the form in which they could then take it, and, if 
necessary, it could be subsequently renewed under the altered 
name. 
A paper “On a Brass Slide Clip,” by Dr. Maddox, was read. 
(‘Trans.,’ p. 65.) 
A vote of thanks to Dr. Maddox was passed. 
Two papers by Mr. Tuffen West were then read. (‘Trans.,’ 
pp. 67, 69.) 
The thanks of the Society were tendered to Mr. West. 
A paper by Dr. Greville was also read. (‘Trans.,’ p. 77.) 
The usual vote of thanks was awarded. 
A paper by Captain Mitchell, Superintendent of the Madras 
Government Museum, “On the True Reading of Measurements 
with the Cobweb Micrometer,” was read, and the thanks of the 
Society awarded for the same. (‘Trans.,’ p. 71.) 
A paper by H. Charlton Bastian, Esq., M.A., F.R.S., commu- 
nicated by Mr. W. H. Ince, F.L.8., was read. (‘Trans.,’ p. 86.) 
After some remarks by Mr. Brooks and the President, and the 
thanks of the Society having been given to Mr. Bastian and Mr. 
Ince. A paper “On a New and Adjustable Diaphragm,” by 
Sydney D. Kincaid, Esq., was read. (‘‘Trans.,’ p. 75.) 
After a few remarks from M. Wenham, the thanks of the So- 
ciety were voted to Mr. Kincaid. 
Dr. Hatirax produced some specimens of Insects, chiefly Bees, 
