168 PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 
February 22nd, 1867. 
Arruur E. Duruam, Esq., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
A paper by Mr. F. Kitton, of Norwich, was read, “On the 
Publication of New Genera on Insufiicient Data,’’ which will be 
found on p. 118. 
Seven members were elected. 
The proceedings terminated with a conyersazione. 
Oup CHANGE MicroscoricaL SOcrEty. 
This Society, which was formed in the establishment of Messrs. 
Leaf, Sons, & Co., in April last, consists of about eighty or ninety 
members, under the Presidency of Charles Leaf, Esq., F.L.S., &c., 
one of the firm, gave its first soirée on Monday, February 25th, 
at Willis’s Rooms. 
It was attended by a numerous and fashionable company, about 
800 ladies and gentlemen being present, all of whom seemed 
highly gratified with the variety of entertainment provided. Of 
course, the chief feature of the soirée was the microscopes, up- 
wards of 120 of which were exhibited; Fellows of the Royal 
Microscopical Society, Members of the Quekett Microscopical 
Club, the Old Change Microscopical Society, and Messrs. R. and J. 
Beck, Browning, Baker, Bailey, Collins, Crouch, How, Ladd, 
Murray and Heath, Powell and Lealand, Ross, Robbins, Salmon 
and Steward, all furnishing their quota. 
The microscopes were arranged on six tables, and (with R. and 
J. Beck’s hexagonal stand as a centre) occupied the entire length 
of the room. The monotony of the tables was very pleasingly 
relieved by a large and beautiful collection of camellias, azaleas, 
callias, pelargoniums, and other plants. 
The objects exhibited were so many and so varied that it is 
almost impossible to enumerate; but amongst them were the 
Lophossus crystallinus by the President and E. G. Lobb, Esq. ; 
Conochilus Volvox by Dr. Millar, F.L.S.; Euplectilla aspergillura, 
Hyalonema mirabilis, and a collection of calcareous sponges, 
British and fossil, and recent sponges from various countries, by 
Charles Tyler, Esq., F.L.S., &c. A series of Atlantic soundings, 
and a large collection of corals, fossils, geological specimens, &c., 
by Robert Etheridge, Esq., F.G.S., of the Geological Survey. 
Volvox globator, by W.R. May, Esq. Recent Polycystina, &c., 
by Major Owen, F.L.S., &c. Asparagin, by W. M. Bywater, Esq., 
Secretary of the Quekett Microscopical Club. The gall fly, by 
T. G. Watson, Esq. Pigment-cells of the pelargonium, &c., by 
