THE JOURNAL OF MICROSCOPY 



AND 



NATURAL SCIENCE : 



the journal of 

 The Postal Microscopical Society.'-v^^^^^ ' 



JANUARY, 1885. 



preeibential abbreee. 



Read before the Members at the Annual Meeting, held 



By C. F. 



^kx 



October 8th, 1884. 

 George, M.R.C.S, 



ETC. 



T is with much diffidence that I accept the honour 

 you have done me, of electing me to the post of 

 President of the " Postal Microscopical Society." 

 Residing, as I do, far from all the centres of science 

 — so isolated, that the meeting with a scientific 

 friend is a delightful pleasure of rare occurrence, 

 and my knowledge of the progress of science being 

 almost entirely gleaned from periodicals and our 

 own boxes and note-books, I must be considered 

 eminently unfitted to fill such a post as President of this Society. 



I have, however, been greatly reassured by the remarks of 

 former presidents, which lead to the conclusion that the situation 

 is by no means an arduous one, and that, with the exception of 



VOL. IV. B 





