OUR ANNUAL MEETING. 51 



for the handsome manner in which you have shown your appreci- 

 ation of my services, 



I am, very faithfully yours, 



Alfred Allen, 



Ho7i. Sec, F.M.S. 



The Hon. J. G. P. Vereker begged to be allowed to propose 

 " The Health of the President." It was he who kept the Society 

 together, looked after the members, and saw everything went on 

 smoothly. He need not say he was a gentleman whom they all 

 honoured. — The toast was warmly received. 



The President, in acknowledging the toast, said that it was 

 with much diffidence that he accepted the honour the Society had 

 offered him in electing him President of the Postal Microscopical 

 Society ; and after a few more remarks of a complimentary nature, 

 the President read the address, which will be found in the present 

 part of the Journal. 



Mr. Hammond proposed a vote of thanks to the President 

 for his very able and instructive address. 



Mr. Curties begged to be allowed to second the vote of 

 thanks to the President for his address, which, although brief, was 

 most interesting and suggestive, and well calculated to be useful 

 to the Society. He therefore hoped the President would kindly 

 allow the address to be pubUshed in the Journal. 



The President returned thanks for the kind way in which 

 Mr. Hammond and Mr. Curties had spoken of him. Ever since 

 the formation of the Society, he had done what he could to help 

 it, and he hoped the members would all do the same. He had 

 brought with him a few of the mites he had mentioned in his 

 address, and he would especially direct attention to a peculiarly 

 beautiful one, whose body was surrounded with processes shaped 

 like Japanese fans. He hoped to show these to the members 

 and friends present, if time permitted, at the close of the meeting. 



The President proposed, '• Success to the Royal Microscopi- 

 cal, the Quekett, and kindred Societies," coupled with the name of 

 Mr. Curties. 



Mr. Curties expressed his obligations to the President for 

 coupling his name with this toast. Having been a Fellow of the 

 Royal Microscopical Society for nearly twenty years, and actively 

 engaged in promoting the interests of microscopy, he was in a 

 position to say that the parent Society was now, as in the past, 

 doing good and useful work. Witness its Journal, which, under 

 the present able editorship, had reached a high position, and its 



