PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 
MicroscoricaL Society, October 8th, 1862. 
R. J. Farrants, Esq., President, in the Chair. 
The following paper was read:—‘‘On the Cleaning and Pre- 
paring of Diatoms,”’ by J. A. Tulk, Esq. 
November 12th, 1862. 
R. J. Farrants, Esq., President, in the Chair. 
Rev. Wm. Tyler, W. F. Graham, Esq., George Tyler, Esq., and 
Conrad Wm. Finzel, Esq., were balloted for, and duly elected mem- 
bers of the Society. 
The following papers were read :—“On the Photographic De- 
lineation of Microscopic Objects,’ by Dr. Maddox. 
**On Acari produced in a Nitrate Bath,” by the same. 
December 10th, 1862. 
R. J. Farrants, Esq., President, in the Chair. 
Henry Davis, Esq., Wm. Revill, Esq., and Jno. T. Murray, Esq., 
were balloted for, and duly elected members of the Society. 
A paper by Dr. Greville, ‘‘On some New Species of Diatomaceze,”’ 
was read. 
Literary AND PutILtosopHican Socrery, MANCHESTER. 
Microscopircan SEcrron. 
October 20th, 1862. 
Professor WILLIaMson, F.R.S., President of the Section, 
in the Chair. 
Mr. George Venables Vernon, F’.R.A.S., was elected a member of 
the Section. 
Mrs. Bury, of Croft Lodge, Ambleside, presented, through Pro- 
fessor Williamson, a series of twelve photographic plates, with 
seventy-two figures of Polycistins from drawings by that lady ; 
also seventeen mounted slides of Barbadoes earth. 
