EEPOET OF THE COMMITTEE, 



In presenting the Fifth Annual Report, the Committee of 

 the Quekett Microscopical Club desire to congratulate the 

 members upon the continued prosperity and success that 

 still attends its progress ; a success that may be attributed to 

 the well-sustained determination of the members individually 

 to fulfil the objects for which the Club was founded. 



By the kind courtesy of the authorities of University 

 College, the Committee are still enabled to enjoy the highly 

 prized privilege of meeting within its walls ; a privilege 

 which confers on the Club many and great advantages, and 

 which it must always warmly appreciate. 



The Quekett Microscopical Club now meets without a 

 recess twice in every month throughout the year ; thus 

 affording the members those frequent opportunities of inter- 

 communication which are so invaluable in the mutual assist- 

 ance they render in the comparison of notes and specimens. 

 The meetings are generally well attended on each occasion. 

 The average attendance on the second Friday in the month, 

 when members meet for the exhibition of Microscopic 

 Objects and for mutual gossip on Microscopical subjects, is 

 45 ; while at the ordinary meeting, on the fourth Friday, 



