150 PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 
may be enabled to test them on application to the Curator of the 
Society. 
The instruments intended for competition to be sent in to 
King’s College, Somerset House, addressed to the Council of the 
Microscopical Society of London, on or before the 31st December, 
1864. The Council do not undertake to grant a Medal or give a 
Testimonial in either of the classes, unless they consider the 
Instruments sent in to be worthy of their approval. 
G. KE. Buryxiys, 
F. C. S. Roper. } Hon. Secs. 
King’s College, 25th March, 1864. 
Hutt Mricoroscorrcat Society. 
On Thursday evening a dress soirée, under the auspices of the 
above Society, took place in the Museum of the Royal Institu- 
tion. About 250 ladies and gentlemen were present, and seldom 
has the cause of science in Hull been graced by so gay an assem- 
blage. Every provision was made by the members of the Society 
for the entertainment and comfort of their guests. Upwards of 
twenty microscopes, including several “ binoculars,”’ occupied the 
tables, and among the objects exhibited were the following :—By 
Dr. Bell, microscopic shells and wing of butterfly (Morpha 
Menelaus) ; F. W. Casson, sections of fossil wood ; Sir H. Cooper, 
vegetable tissues; R. M. Craven, bones of the mastodon and 
iguanodon; Hy. Gibson, acarus from the human face (Demodex 
folliculorum), sporules or ‘spawn of mushrooms, section of tooth 
of sawfish, tick of sow; J. M. Gibson, claws of spider, gastric 
teeth of cricket (gizzard) ; R. Harrison, circulation of blood in a 
fish, living infusoria, water spider (Trombidium), diatom from 
guano (Aulacodiscus formosus), chambered shells (Foraminifera), 
pollen of mallow under binocular microscope; B. Jacobs, crystal- 
lization of salts, crystallization of salts with polarized light; Rey. 
H. W. Kemp, spicula of sponge, spicula of Gorgonia; Dr. Kel- 
burne King, sections of coal; J. Malam, micro-photographs; S. 
Mosely, sections of spines of Hchinus; Dr. Munro, hyperstein, 
crystallized silver, scales of a fern, spines from a leaf (polarized) ; 
Wm. Parker, micro-photograph £5 note, tongue of a fly; J. D. 
Sollitt, microscopic writing (2nd chapter of St. John‘in the 2000th 
part of an inch, the Lord’s Prayer in the 2500th part of an inch), 
acarus of the wood-cutting bee (Zylocope), acarus of the hare. 
In the course of the evening the company adjourned to the Lec- 
ture Hall, where Sir H. Cooper offered a few explanatory remarks 
on the objects exhibited. To add tothe pleasures of the evening, 
a miscellaneous selection of music was performed at intervals, 
several accomplished local amateurs being assisted by Fraulein 
Anna Eyserbeck and Fraulein Reichmann. The first mentioned of 
