REVIEW. 



The Journal of the Qaekett Microscopical Club. London : 



Robert Hardwicke. 



When the Quekett Club was originally projected we 

 hailed it as an association of amateur microscopists that Avould 

 diffuse widely a taste for scientific investigation, and contri- 

 bute to the great object we had in view in establishing the 

 * Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science.' It is true that 

 some of the members of the old Microscopical Society looked 

 with a little jealousy at the young club, much as the old 

 Fellows of the Linnean Society in their day regarded the 

 Zoological Club, Avhich terminated in the foundation of the 

 Zoological Society; but in a vast population like London 

 there is, undoubtedly, room for a number of ncAV societies 

 devoted to scientific pursuits. The result has shown that 

 not only has the Quekett Club succeeded, but, so far from 

 doing any injury to the old Society, it has gone on increas- 

 ing in numbers and influence ever since the establishment of 

 its supposed rival. The truth is, tbe Quekett Club has been a 

 great feeder of the old Society, and the Members (the Fellows 

 — we beg their pardon) recognised this fact when, at their last 

 meeting, they received with cheers the announcement that 

 the President of the Quekett Club was unanimously elected a 

 Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society. Tlie President 

 also, with that graciousness which has all along characterised 

 his four years of laborious and useful office, pronounced from 

 the chair his belief that the mother and daughter, after all, 

 had but one common object in their constitution and pro- 

 ceedings. Let us, then, hang down our heads and blush 

 when we think of the hard words and ungenerous feelings 

 which have been exhibited between the two societies. 



We do not feel called upon to give any opinion about tlie 

 propriety of the Quekett Club starting a journal of their own. 

 Did we stand upon our dignity, we think they ought to have 

 consulted ourselves, and asked us whether we thought 



