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JTH the issue of this, the fourth, part of our 

 Journal, which completes the first Annual Vo- 

 lume, we heartily congratulate the Members of 

 the Postal Microscopical Society and our Sub- 

 scribers in general on the success of this under- 

 taking. 



Although the publication of such a Journal 



had been contemplated for some time in the 



mind of the Editor, still he felt reluctant to enter 



upon so anxious an undertaking, until early in the 



present year an esteemed member of the Society, 



Dr. Measures, of Long Sutton, sent a draft of a 



proposed Magazine, and by a curious coincidence 



another arrived on the same day from the editor 



of a Natural History periodical. Our Committee 



gave careful attention to both of these schemes, and 



eventually decided to publish the Journal in its present 



form. 



The Hon. Secretary of the Postal Microscopical Society 

 has undertaken the office of Publisher and Editor. In 

 the duties of the latter office he has received very valu- 

 able assistance during the issue of the first three parts 

 from the Rev. J. H. Green (Chairman of the Bath Sub- 

 Committee), to whom he tenders his very sincere thanks, 



