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which was beautifully engraved with his monogram, and inside which was 

 also engraved the following inscription : — " Presented to Mr. R. T. Lewis 

 by some of his fellow members of the Quekett Microscopical Club, in 

 appreciation of his seiwices as honorary Reporter. July 26th, 1878." 



Mr. R. T. Lewis expressed his warm thanks to the President and to those 

 gentlemen who had been associated with him, not only for the very hand- 

 some testimonial which had been placed in his hands, but also for the very 

 kind way in which the presentation had been made. He was extremely 

 glad to have been able to perform any service to the Club, and his position 

 might be explained by a reference to how he came to undertake it in the 

 first instance. The idea was started at the meeting of the Club in October 

 18ii6, when a gentleman to whom they had so often been indebted for 

 usefnl suggestions, Mr. (now Dr.) M. C. Cooke, expressed his opinion that 

 the meetings of the Clnb were becoming so important that some permanent 

 record of them was very desirable, and he hoped some member would be 

 moved to volunteer his services in that direction. Accordingly during the 

 following week he (Mr. Lewis) wrote to their then Secretary, Mr. By water, 

 and offered to do what he could in the matter, stating that he did so from 

 the desire to be a useful rather than a useless member of the Club. With 

 this wish he had all along been animated, and he hoped, if spared to con- 

 tinue the work, he might be yet able to do so for many years to come, 

 being desirous to do what he could for the welfare of the Club, whose 

 interests he had so much at heart. It had been a labour of love, and, 

 thanks to the extreme kindness which he had always experienced from the 

 three Secretarys with whom he had had the pleasure of working, it had 

 never at any time pressed upon him as a burden, indeed from first to last 

 the only cause he had for regret was that having one evening carelessly left 

 one of his report books in a carriage in the Underground Railway, no 

 amount of enquiry or offered reward sufficed to get it restored. He again 

 sincerely returned his thanks for the very beautiful present which they had 

 made to him ; he should value it for its own sake, but should do so far more 

 as an expression of the good feeling of those many friends by whom he 

 felt himself surrounded. 



The Scrutineers having handed in their report, the result of the ballot for 

 officers and Council was declared to be as follows : — 



As President Prof. T. EL Huxley, F.R.S., &c. 



fMr. Henry Lee, F.L.S., F.R.M.S., &c. 

 I Dr. J. Matthews, F.R.M.S. 



As, Vice-Presidents - *j Mr . C . Stewart, M.R.C.S., &c. 



I Mr. T. C. White, M.R.C.S., &c. 

 fMr. F. Crisp, B.A., LL.B. 

 To fill four vacancies on I Mr. A. D. Michael, F.R.M.S. 

 the Committee ... 1 Mr. E. T. Newton, F.G.S. 



I Mr. F. Oxley. 



As Hon. Treasurer ... Mr. F. W. Gay, F.R.M.S. 



As Hon. Secretary ... Mr. J. E. Ingpen, F.R.M.S. 



As Hon. Foreign Secretary Dr. M. C. Cooke, M.A., A.L.S., &c. 



