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are supplied to each member free, and it is hoped that all 

 those whose books are filled will at once apply for others. 



The publication of the Notes of the Society is now an 

 accomplished fact. The first part of the " Journal of the 

 Postal Microscopical Society" was issued on March 2oth, 

 succeeded by others in June and September, and the fourth 

 part, completing the first volume, will be ready about 

 December 24th. The publication of this Journal has been 

 mainly undertaken by your Hon. Secretary (under the advice 

 of the Committee). In the Editorial department he has been 

 assisted in no small degree by the R-ev. J. H. Green (Chairman 

 of the Local Sub-Committee), to whom are tendered herewith 

 the best thanks of the members and subscribers generally. 



The collation of the Notes is at present a more laborious 

 work than it otherwise would be, if members would studiously 

 avoid writing anything in the Note-books but what is of an 

 instructive nature. It is found also that many Notes, which 

 were instructive when accompanied by the slides, become 

 comparatively valueless on being isolated from them ; this 

 points to the imperative necessity there is that all slides 

 should be illustrated, as far as possible, by both pencil 

 and pen. 



With respect to the drawing of the plates, owing to the 

 great expense attending high-class Lithographic work, the 

 publisher has been induced to employ a local artist, and is 

 pleased to note a marked improvement with each issue ; it is 

 confidently hoped that by the time the first part of Vol. II. 

 is reached the execution of the plates will have become all 

 that can be desired. 



Your Hon. Secretary is desirous of waiting the issue of 

 Part iv. before laying before you the financial result of the 

 new enterprise ; and meanwhile he would earnestly solicit 

 your cordial help and co-operation. Especially is it desirable 

 that each member should try and furnish original matter, 

 written either by himself or some competent friend, suitable 

 for the pages of the Journal, and calculated to increase its 

 circulation and usefulness. And if each subscriber would also 

 endeavour to obtain three or four others, the Journal would 

 quickly become an undoubted success. 



