SESSION 1892-38. 
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11th, 1892. 
INAUGURAL ADDRESS 
BY 
MR. D. E. CAUSH 
(PRESIDENT OF THE Society). 
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN— 
Allow me to thank you most heartily for the honour you 
have conferred upon me, in electing me to the exalted position of 
President of the Brighton and Sussex Natural History and 
Philosophical Society, and to assure you that it will be my 
earnest endeavour, during my term of office, to further the efforts 
of your Council in the development of this, our Society. 
During the past year great changes have taken place in the 
working of this Society, and it now remains with the individual 
members, to make the effort of your Council a great and lasting 
success. Recognising the necessity of making some arrangements 
for the systematic study of the various branches of science 
embraced by our Society, the Council have organised various 
sections, each to have a definite subject for study. Iam glad to 
say the following Sections are now in working order, Viz. : 
Meteorology, Microscopy, Botany, and Photography, and it is to 
be hoped that Entomology and Geology will find sufficient 
supporters to justify a similar organisation also for these studies. 
My predecessor in this chair devoted the greater portion of 
his address to the benefits to be derived from Microscopical 
studies; at the risk of a little reiteration, I am going still further 
to speak of them, in order to endeavour to bring home to my 
hearers, some of the pleasures and advantages to be derived from 
work, in which, I have myself, for many years, taken the greatest 
interest. The Microscopical Section which has lately been 
