EEPOET OF THE COMMITTEE. 



The period has again arrived when the Committee of the 

 Quekett Microscopical Club usually render to their con- 

 stituents an Annual Statement of the progress and prospects 

 of the Club. 



In presenting their Sixth Annual Report, the Committee 

 have much pleasure in announcing that the Club is still 

 attended by the prosperity and success which marked its 

 early career, and whether they regard the progress of the 

 Club by the light of work accomplished, by the increase in 

 its members arising from the influx of new members, or by 

 the warm and cordial manner in which the members, in- 

 dividually and collectively, are carrying out the objects for 

 which the Club was established, the Committee feel that in 

 offering their congratulations, they can do so in the firm 

 assurance that they are based on no uncertain foundation. 



To rightly estimate this progress, it is necessary to recall 

 to mind the objects sought to be promoted by the Club, and 

 then to see how these have been fulfilled during the past 

 year. 



The primary objects the founders of the Club had in view 

 in its formation may be gathered from the extract from the 



