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paper, entitled " Work for the Microscope;" other papers I find 

 recorded, such as " Manipulation with Canada Balsam," and such 

 papers now would be most acceptable, giving the author's own ex- 

 perience of the use of the various mounting media and methods of 

 mounting, with all his difficulties and failures, openly, plainly, fear- 

 lessly confessed. 



Again, I would suggest that much remains to be worked out 

 in special departments of microscopical science, and materials for 

 very valuable papers may be gathered from the study of microscopic 

 comparative anatomy, by which I mean that a comparison of the 

 same organ in various insects would prove highly interesting and 

 instructive. Taking, for instance, the rectal papillae of the blow fly, 

 it would be very interesting to follow out the rectal papillae in 

 other insects, and to illustrate the subject by drawings and prepar- 

 ations. Again, the development of insects, the metamorphoses they 

 undergo in their earlier stages of growth ; but I need not enumer- 

 ate the many ways in which systematic work of that kind might be 

 carried out. A fresh fact in Physiology, well substantiated, will 

 leave its mark behind. Observations the most simple, if authentic, 

 will add another brick to that beautiful edifice of truth which honest 

 observers are combined to erect. 



Again, I would add a word of encouragement to the younger 

 members among us. Do not think because you are young and in- 

 experienced that if you speak up at our meetings you will be 

 " snubbed." No such thing. The men who form the Quekett 

 Microscopical Club are not made of such stuff as would snub a 

 younger brother. I can answer for that from my own personal 

 experience; and your very questions would draw out valuable in- 

 formation from others — information that could not be embodied in 

 a paper, and which would be welcome to many amongst us. 



Then, again, I would suggest to absent members the desirability 

 of their contributing to the information of the Club. A large pro- 

 portion of our members are resident in the country ; they doubtless 

 have many opportunities for systematic work. Many, probably, have 

 made some special branch of microscopic science their study. If 

 they will throw the results of their observations together in a paper, 

 the Committee will gladly accept and take charge of their contri- 

 butions. 



