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THE JOURNAL OF MICROSCOPY 



AND 



NATURAL SCIENCE : 



the journal of 

 The Postal Microscopical Society. 



APRIL, 1886. 



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Highbury Microscopical and Scientific Society. 

 President's Address for the Year 1885. 



Read before the Society on November 12th, 1885. 

 By Mr. H. W. S. Worsley-Benison, F.L.S. 



N a Society where not only the science of Microscopy 

 is ably represented, but where from time to time 

 we justify the second part of our title by discus- 

 sions in the realms of Geology, Zoology, and 

 Botany, I have thought it not inappropriate that I 

 should, as your President for the time being, take 

 as the theme of my address the life and work of 

 one who has done more to revolutionize current 

 error and guide modern thought in the scientific 

 world than any other man of his age. 



Therefore, I propose to-night to render some sort of tribute, 

 even though it be but a humble and inadequate one, to the 

 memory of our great scientific leader, Charles Darwin. 



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