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microscopic paleontology, and pond life. I communicated to 
you, on a former occasion, my friend Mr, Wilson Saunders’s 
suggestion that we should unite with the Holmesdale Club at 
Reigate, in the botanical sections; and I shall shortly ask 
those who are interested and able to help in the four subjects 
I have named, to confer with me respecting the organisation 
of co-operative work upon them. I have seen so much skill 
and ingenuity displayed by many of our members in pre- 
paring and mounting objects, and so much latert talent in 
this direction, that I have determined to offer a prize to be 
presented at our next Annual Meeting, for the best series of 
six dozen mounted objects. The variety, novelty, and 
scientific value of the specimens, difficulty of preparation, 
and neatness of manipulation will be taken into considera- 
tion. The competiturs must be amateurs and members of 
of the Club ; the judges will be two members of the Council 
of the Roya! Microscopical Society; and the prize will be a 
cabinet, designed by myself to contain all the necessary 
apparatus for the mounting of microscopic objects, and of 
the value of £5. I conclude with the assurance of the hap- 
piness I have experienced in associating with you all during 
the past year; and with the hope that, encouraged and 
assisted by our fellow members, and stimulated by their 
approbation and example, we may be able, during the year 
which is to come, to maintain and increase the attractions 
and usefulness of our Club. 
Mr. Atrrep CrowLey then addressed the meeting, 
remarking that the progress of the Club from the first had 
been to him a source of pleasurable wonder. He wished to 
give full credit to the Committee and other officers ; they 
were an excellent team, admirably driven. In most Societies 
the management devolved upon the Secretary and one or two 
members, and the President was generally an ornamental 
personage, elected on account of his local influence, or 
because he had a handle to his name; but he had no hesi- 
tation in saying that Mr. Lee was the mainspring of the 
Club. It was he who, by his personal friendship with emi- 
nent scientific men, enabled it to take so high a position, 
when it was inaugurated ; it was to his exertions that the 
success of the Soirée was attributable; and it was well 
known to every gentleman present, that the minutest details 
of the business of the Club received his careful attention ; 
and that almost every measure adopted for the advancement 
of its interests, was initiated by him. He was the ‘right 
man in the right place,” and he had great pleasure in pro- 
posing a resolution :— 
That the thanks of the -members be given to the President for his 
