418 PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



A specimen of A. hracJiyphyll-maxima, Parlatore, proved to be the 

 same as A. firma. All the specimens yet examined cultivated in 

 Britain as A. firma are A. bifida. 



Medical Miceoscopical Society. 



An interesting soiree was given by this Society in the rooma 

 of the Century Club, Pall Mall Place, on Friday, June 25th. The 

 rooms were well filled, and numerous important pathological 

 specimens, as well as new instruments, were exhibited. Among 

 the former were a series of twenty typical specimens of tumours, 

 by Messrs. Needham and Pritchard; alveolar sarcoma, by Mr. 

 Godlee ; tubercle of omentum, by Dr. Payne ; absorption spectra 

 of bile, &c., by Professor Kay Laukester; micro-photographs, by 

 Mr. Powke. 



Among the instruments were a freezing microtome on a new 

 principle, by Mr. E,. C. Williams ; microtomes on Rutherford's 

 and Ranvier's principle, by Dr. Pritchard and Mr. Golding-Bird ; 

 a micro-photographic apparatus for taking photographs without a 

 heliostat, by Mr. Giles ; improved form of Mr. Stephenson's bin- 

 ocular microscope, by Mr. Bevington ; a " differential " warm 

 stage, by Mr. Grolding-Bird ; besides micro-spectroscopic appa- 

 ratus, by Mr. Browning ; and microscopes, by Beck, Pillischer, 

 Verick, &c. 



The specimens occupied the attention of members and visitors 

 till a late hour. 



