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Hislop and Marks, the Exchange of Slides Committee, and 

 to acknowledge the very efficient manner in which they 

 have respectively carried out the working of their different 

 departments. 



Upon taking a retrospective glance over the career of the 

 Quekett Microscopical Club during the period it has been in 

 existence, one cannot but be struck by the fact of its rapid 

 increase and growth. Five years ago it was represented by 

 eleven individuals, warm, ardent and zealous in the pursuit 

 of Microscopical knowledge ; and in the comparatively short 

 space of time that has since elapsed, over 600 members have 

 sought and obtained election in the Club. Most of these 

 gentlemen remain with us to the present time, all imbued 

 with a strong desire to seek out the unfathomable stores of 

 interest revealed by the Microscope, and all influenced by 

 that insatiable thirst for the observation of the minute and 

 the beautiful, that only the Microscope can open up to view. 

 Looking at the Club as constituted of members such as these, 

 your Committee hope that the year to come may be marked 

 by still greater progress in the furtherance of the objects for 

 which the Club was instituted, and that each member may 

 strive in systematic work to emulate him whose name is so 

 closely associated with its title. 



July 2%nd, 1870. 



