PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 
Rorat Microscoricat Socrrery oF Lonpon. 
December 12th, 1866. 
R. J. Farrants, Esq., in the Chair. 
The minutes of the preceding Meeting of Council and of the 
Special General Meeting of November 14th were read and con- 
firmed. 
Six presents were announced, and thanks returned to the re- 
spective donors. 
The following gentlemen were elected Fellows of the Society : 
—Peter Murray Braidwood, M.D., Infirmary, Carlisle; Thomas 
Crook, Esq., Thames Ditton; Christopher W. Calthrop, Esgq., 
Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital, Charing Cross ; Thomas 
Curties, Esq., High Holborn; Charles Davis, Esq., 14, Wimpole 
Street; Rev. J. H. Ellis, Brill Parsonage, Thame, Oxon. ; William 
J. Gray, M.D., 23, Princes Street, Cavendish Square ; R. T. Lewis, 
Esq., 1, Lowndes Terrace, Knightsbridge ; William Moginie, Esgq., 
35, Queen Square; William Cunliffe Pickersgill, Esq., Blendon 
Hall, Bexley. 
The following papers were read :—“ On a New Condenser,” by 
the Rev. J. B. Reade. “On Two New Species of Tube-bearing 
Rotifers,’ by Mr. H. Davis. (See ‘Trans.,’ p. 13.) 
Mr. Janz Hoae believed, with the author of the last paper, that 
this was a new species of Rotifer; but he could not quite agree 
with him as to the precise mode in which the gelatinous case of 
the animal was built up; and certainly he did not think it could 
be formed in the same way as that of Melicerta ringens, namely, by 
ellets. The author had favoured him with specimens, and he 
ad closely watched them, without having once seen any attempt 
to build or add anything to the cylindrical sheath into which it so 
entirely withdraws itself on the approach of danger; and with 
regard to the Rotifer “jerking down a clot of granules,” as de- 
