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naugurated, and had ever since been carried out so successfully. 
Through their career they had always felt that Mr. Lee was anxious 
that the @lub should not be exclusively confined to microscopy, but 
should embrace different departments of science, including the in- 
teresting subject of natural history, and this was partly due to the 
fact that their President was well acquainted with different branches 
of scientific knowledge, and therefore he had induced gentlemen 
capable of taking up one or other of these pursuits, to enrol them- 
selves as members of this Society. Although they hailed with 
pleasure the appointment of Mr. Lee’s successor, they could not 
forget the pleasure which their President's genial character, noble 
sympathy, even-handed courtesy, and intense love of natural history 
and science had afforded them. Mr. Lee had kindled amongst the 
members a similar spirit, and had succeeded in maintaining it; and 
he (Mr. Suffield) had not the smallest doubt that, with his cordial 
co-operation and valuable assistance, the Club would go on and 
prosper. With feelings of real affection and gratitude for the in- 
valuable services that their retiring President had rendered to them 
as a Club, he begged to propose, with all the cordiality possible, a 
vote of thanks to that gentleman. (Applause.) 
Dr. Strona said he could not let this occasion pass without 
seconding this resolution, as he had been a member of this Club 
ever since its establishment, and although, from the effluxion of 
time and other circumstances he had been compelled to sever his 
active connection with the Club, he would yield to none in the 
respect and friendship he entertained for their retiring President. 
Ever since Mr. Lee had been connected with the Club he had 
always been at his post, and had proved himself to be so good a 
commander of the ship, that it was not surprising it had come 
safely into port; and now, with a new commander, but under the 
guidance of its late captain, the vessel was about to be launched for 
another voyage. On every occasion Mr. Lee had shown his readi- 
ness to afford information on any subject of which the members 
were ignorant, and it was afforded in such a way as to encourage 
the recipient to seek further knowledge. (Hear, hear.) Although 
Mr. Lee had severed himself from the Club officially as President, 
it was gratifying to know that he would give them the benefit of his 
advice and assistance as a member of the Committee; and there- 
fore he cordially seconded the vote of thanks for the valuable 
services afforded by Mr. Lee in the past. 
Mr. Warren said that although the Club would have an ex- 
cellent President in Dr. Carpenter, he felt they had sustained a 
great and heavy loss by the absence of Mr. Lee from the presidential 
chair, for they could not expect to have a Lee occupying the chair 
more than once in a generation. He observed that their friend 
had been appointed President of the Quekett Microscopical Club ; 
