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the still more important encouragement of good and useful work. It did 

 not, however, become him, as one putting the armour on, to boast as one who 

 was putting it off, but he looked to the future to show them that as he should 

 ever be desirous of promoting their welfare as the friend of all true advance- 

 ment amongst them, so they would never find him to be a partizan of any 

 clique or section. Those amongst them who knew what his work had been 

 for nearly seven years as president of the Croydon Microscopical Club 

 knew how, during the whole of that period, there had not been one single 

 disagreement or unpleasantness in that Club ; and in his association with 

 the Quekett Club, he looked forward without any doubts to a period of equal 

 harmony, and hoped for much of that pleasant intercourse of which they 

 had been so feelingly reminded on that occasion. Those of the members 

 who knew how hard he worked some years ago to bring about a reciprocity 

 of good feeling with the Eoyal Microscopical Society, when the first cool- 

 ness arose between that Society and the Quekett Club, well know how strong 

 was his desire to break down all jealousies, and to see the harmony exist 

 between them and other kindred Societies, which tended so much to the 

 happiness and benefit of all. 



The business of the Ordinary Meeting was then proceeded with. 



The following Donations to the Club were announced : — 



" Science Gossip " ... ... ... ... ... from the Publisher. 



" The Popular Science Review " ... ... ... „ „ 



" The Monthly Microscopical Journal" ... ... ,, ,, 



" Proceedings of the Natural History Society of) ,V a . , 



> „ tne Society. 



Glasgow ... ... ... ... ) 



"The Medical Examiner " (weekly) „ the Publisher. 



Six Slides of Wood Sections ... ... ... ,, Mr. Sigsworth. 



19 „ various objects ( „ Mr. W. K. Bridg- 



J | man. 



" The American Naturalist " ... ... ... in exchange. 



" The Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science " by purchase. 



Photographs of Mr. J. Davis and Mr. R. P. Williams were also presented 

 for the Album. 



The thanks of the Club were unanimously voted to the donors. 



Mr. Henry Barnard and Mr. Edward Halford were balloted for, and duly 

 elected Members of the Club. 



The Secretary exhibited and described a new form of quadruple nose- 

 piece, made by Mr. Swift. 



Mr. Curties said he should be glad to hear Mr. Ingpen's objections to the 

 use of nose-pieces. 



Mr. Ingpen said he considered nose-pieces the opticians' best friends, and 

 thought that there were probably more objectives damaged by them than 

 by any other cause. He also thought that the use of nose-pieces and all 

 similar apparatus tended greatly to encourage an amount of f ussiness which 

 was against good steady quiet work. It was generally the tyro who got 

 hold of these things, and the exhibition of objects under the rapid changes 

 of power and illumination had often the character of a pantomime trick. 



