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VALEDICTORY. 



Dear Friends, — 



.^T^T is with the deepest regret that I write the word which 

 5J|«i appears above. The present part completes the 

 Sixteenth Annual Volume of the International 

 Journal of Microscopy and Natural Science, and during 

 the whole of those sixteen years I can honestly say that I 

 have spared no labour to make it worthy of the name it 

 bears. That I have succeeded in winning the approbation of 

 a great number of subscribers I have many letters to prove. 

 But for several years the result of the sales has not been 

 sufficient to pay the printer's bills, and this year I feel myself 

 so far in arrears that I dare go on no further. 



I cannot close without tendering my best thanks to those 

 subscribers who have helped me by their kind support, and 

 especially those — and they are many — who have been sub- 

 scribers from the first ; also to those who have contributed 

 valuable papers, and have promised others for next year, 

 which I shall be obliged to "decline with thanks." 



My thanks are also due to my publishers, Messrs. Bail- 

 Here, Tindall, and Cox, from whom I have always received 

 the greatest courtesy and kindness. 



