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The Secretary read an extract from " The Photographic News," describing 

 the Albertype process, and suggested its applicability to the illustration of 

 books on Microscopy. Specimens of the process were exhibited. The cost of 

 prints, Gin. by 8in. was stated to be sixpence each, which sum was subsequently 

 doubted as being too large. 



Mr. Breese pointed out that the specimens exhibited were soft and well 

 adapted to likenesses, but they were without detail, and therefore quite useless 

 for microscopic purposes. 



Among other objects exhibited attention was called to Amphipleura pellu- 

 cida (acus), shewn by Mr, Powell, with one-eighth Immersion lens. 



The following gentlemen were proposed for membership : — Messrs. Henry 

 Jones Coppock, John Salmon, Gilbert Sanders, Benjamin D. Jackson, F.L.S., 

 William Parker, M.D., George Ackland Ames, D. W, Hill, Thomas Lloyd, 

 and Arthur Brewin, F.R.A.S., F.R.M.S. 



PRESENTATION OF A TESTIMONIAL TO MR. BY WATER. 



The President having vacated the chair, it was taken by 



Mr. Arthur E. Durham, who said that on no previous occasion had he occu- 

 pied that chair with so much pleasure, and he considered that great courtesy had 

 been shewn him in requesting him to do so now. All present knew how the 

 Club had originated, and what a marked and signal success had attended it since 

 its commencement. Amongst those of its first founders, and those who had 

 done most to contribute to its success, no one had been more active than Mr. 

 By water, who for the past four years had been its Honorary Secretary ; he 

 knew that in discharging the onerous duties of his office no secretary ever did 

 his work in a more indefatigable manner, or with such hearty good will. At 

 length a time came when he found his labours crowned with success, and the 

 Club in such a vigorous condition as to be able to go on without such constant 

 care, and feeling that he might safely lay down his charge, he had resolved to 

 retire from the office he held so long. We felt that we ought to render him 

 some acknowledgment of his services, and it was resolved to present him with 

 some permanent mark of our sense of the value of those services. 



A service of plate, consisting of a salver, silver coffee-pot, teapot, cream 

 jug and sugar basin, was then brought forward, and Mr. Bywater was asked to 

 accept it in the name of the Club, Mr. Durham at the same time expressing 

 regret for the loss of his services, and good wishes for the future. The follow- 

 ing inscription was engraved on the salver : — 



" Presented, together with a silver tea service, to Witham Matthew Bywater, 

 by members of the Quekett Microscopical Club, as a token of appreciation 

 of his indefatigable exertions both as a founder of the Club and as 

 honorary secretary during four years. 1869." 



Mr. Bywater expressed his deep sense of obligation to the members for this 

 valuable mark of their kindly feeling and esteem, and he hoped that he should 

 be pardoned, if his words failed to express all he felt upon the occasion. He 

 looked back with pride to the period during which he had been associated with 



