THE JOURNAL OF MICROSCOPY 



AND 



NATURAL SCIENCE: 



the journal of 

 The Postal Microscopical Society. 



JANUARY, 1887. 



By J. W. Measures, M.R.C.S.Eng. 





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VER since the receipt of Mr. Allen's letter informing 

 me that your choice for the office of President- 

 elect had fallen upon me, I have in vain been 

 endeavouring to discover the reasons which led to 

 that selection, and can assure you that my feelings 

 of surprise have not been diminished by time ; but 

 like the fly in amber, I still wonder " why I am 

 here," and can only thank you, either for your 

 discernment of qualities which you suppose me to 

 possess, or for your great kindness in bestowing the highest honour 

 in your power upon a member now of some years' standing. This 

 honour I highly appreciate, and with a deep sense of my own 

 inability to fill worthily the place heretofore occupied by more 

 distinguished men, must beg your kindest indulgence and for- 

 bearance. 



We meet here as members of a society, whose one bond of 

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