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hand to hand, an occasional revision and vveeding-out of poor or 

 perished specimens is desirable and, indeed, necessary. This 

 involves very considerable labour and judgment, which it is 

 felt must not be thrown entirely on the Curator. Your 

 Committee propose, therefore, to nominate a small Sub- 

 Committee, who will go over the whole Cabinet and take the 

 responsibility of rejecting sach preparations as they may find 

 unfit, and, at the same time, prepare a new catalogue. 



The following is a list of slides added during the year : — 



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Your Committee has again to thank the various officers for 

 their several services in maintaining the routine business of 

 the Club. The long time which the majority of them have 

 held office speaks for itself as to the interest taken by them in 

 all appertaining to its success as a society. 



Finally, your Committee has every reason to believe that the 

 manifest increase of vitality lately shown in microscopical 

 matters will continue, and, as far as concerns the social aspect, 

 it is of the opinion that Johnson's genial definition of a club — 

 ' an assembly of good fellows, meeting under certain conditions '* 

 — pre-eminently holds in the case of the Quekett. 



