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Committee, and to Messrs. Hailes, Hislop and Marks, the 

 Exchange of Slides Committee, and to acknowledge the very 

 efficient manner in which they carry out the duties of their 

 several departments, and the readiness they also evince in 

 helping the Committee in various other ways. 



Looking back at the prospect afforded by the year that is 

 now past, your Committee feel every reason for satisfaction, 

 and are full of hope that the future of the Club will be 

 marked by good and useful work, and they desire to conclude 

 by recommending to the attention of the members generally 

 the desirability of a systematic pursuit of the various branches 

 of Microscopical study, without which the Microscope merely 

 becomes an interesting amusement, and not a means of pro- 

 moting the advancement of scientific truth. 



July 28th, 1871. 



