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Captain Tycer said it had given him much pleasure to come 
down to serve his friend Mr. Lee, with whom he had spent many 
happy hours in scientific researches. The greatest trouble to him 
was a doubt whether his lecture would be satisfactory to the Club. 
It was difficult to convey his meaning on such a subject in an 
: intelligible form unless he had a microscope, several bottles, and 
other paraphernalia at bis fingers’ ends. But if the members present 
were satisfied with the few remarks that he had been enabled to 
make, he was more than repaid for any trouble he had taken. 
