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Several persons here asked for MR. UttyettT, but that 
gentleman not being in the room 
The Rev. C. J. TAytor said he was asked to remark how 
much they were indebted to Mr. Ullyett for the careful 
arrangement of the specimens, nearly half those exhibited 
that evening being Mr. Ullyett’s own property, and the feeling 
of thankfulness and obligation was loudly responded to and 
with applause. 
Dr. FitzGerap proposed a vote of thanks to the Mayor 
for presiding, which was seconded by the Rev. C. L. Acland. 
The Mayor responded, and the formality of the Meeting ter- 
minated, the remaining time being devoted to the inspection 
of the several valuable objects and specimens in the cases. 
Wednesday, November 23rd, 
Eventnc Mretinc AT THE Museum. There was a large 
attendance. Several microscopes were on the table, and a 
large collection of objects, living and mounted. The following 
paper was read by the Rev. C. L. Acland, for Mrs. Bateman : 
ON THE YEAST PLANT. 
If you use your Microscope as a mere plaything wherewith 
to amuse an idle hour, passing specimen after specimen be- 
neath its revealing power, without a care to enquire into the 
structure, habits, or functions of the marvellous object which 
you admire, you will soon tire of it, and put it away as an un- 
cared for toy. If, on the contrary, you use it as a means of 
diving beneath the surface of things, of making you come face 
to face with Nature in all her protean shapes—ever changing, 
yet ever the same, of endless variety, yet ever one—it will 
possess for you an increasing fascination, and you will use it 
again and again, with renewed interest, to peer into it for some 
mighty secret it can alone reveal; or to fix beneath your 
scrutiny, some field where the minutest forms of organic life 
perform beneath your eye their functions, subject to laws as 
invariable and peremptory as those which govern the highest 
life. 
It is with the Microscope, rightly handled, that proofs have 
