THE JOURNAL OF MICROSCOPY 



AND 



NATURAL SCIENCE: 



the journal of 

 The Postal Microscopical Society. 



JANUARY, 1884. 



^be Hbbreee of tbc |pre6i^cnt of tbe postal 

 flDicroacopical Society, 



Carey P. Coombs, M.D., at the Annual Meeting, 



Oct. II, 1883. 



desire, in the first instance, to express my great 

 indebtedness to the members of our Society, and 

 more particularly to our worthy and painstaking 

 Secretary. 



It is now some years since I heard indirectly 

 that a few amateur microscopists had originated 

 and organised a Society for the purpose of circu- 

 lating such objects as can be permanently mounted 

 for examination. This Society became the means 

 of providing pleasant and instructive evenings for many who live 

 in localities where libraries and lectures on scientific subjects are 

 not to be had. We can now, by means of the " Postal Microsco- 

 pical Society," enjoy, at the hours most convenient to ourselves, the 

 specimens prepared by its members, and study the notes on the 



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