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Mr. Purvis moved, Mr. F. Warren seconded, and it 
was resolved— 
That the report of the Committee be received, approved, and 
entered on the minutes; and that it be printed and distributed to 
the members, 
—Both the mover and seconder expressed their great satis- 
faction with the admirable manner in which the Club was 
conducted, and the small expenditure by which such im- 
portant results had been achieved. Mr. Warren added that 
the liberality of the President and Committee in giving their 
valuable assistance and support to kindred institutions in the 
town, deserved the warmest approbation of every one, and 
that to his personal knowledge the public exhibition by the 
members, of their instruments and objects, had excited in 
many ‘‘ outsiders’’ a taste for the microscope, amongst whom 
was his own son, for whom he had bought a microscope, and 
whom he hoped soon to see a member of the Club. 
Mr. Lex having called on the meeting to confirm an 
alteration in the rules of which notice had previously been 
given, namely, that the number of the Committee should be 
increased from five to seven, the alteration was unanimously 
sanctioned. 
Mr. Lee then rose and addressed the meeting as fol- 
lows :—Gentlemen,—In the few remarks which you will 
expect me to address to you at this the first of our Annual 
Meetings, I shall limit myself to a review of the past, and my 
views respecting the future of our Croydon Microscopical 
Club. In my inaugural address I recounted its early history, 
and laid before you an outline plan of the course I thought it 
advisable that we should follow. Let us see to what extent 
we have carried out our intentions, and how far we have pro- 
gressed towards the attainment of the object we then set 
before us. I regard our Club as a select body of friends and 
neighbours brought together, firstly, by the sympathy en- 
gendered by community of inclination for an intellectual 
pursuit, and a desire to associate with men of similar tastes ; 
secondly, by the yearning for a more intimate knowledge of 
the works and workings of Nature, which inevitably arises in 
the minds of a certain proportion of educated and thoughtful 
men, but which is often intuitive, and may be surprisingly 
developed in those who have had no such privileges in their 
youth ; and thirdly, by the hope of our becoming an associa- 
tion of painstaking naturalists and microscopists, who should 
occasionally be able to contribute some new fact or observa- 
tion to the Treasury of Science. I believe these were the 
motives which brought us together, and I am glad to be able 
to express to you my unqualified satisfaction with the degree 
