FORTY-NINTH ANNUAL REPORT 



Liverpool Microscopical Society. 



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IT is very gratifying to the President and Council that 

 in presenting this, the Forty-ninth Annual Report, 

 they are again able to report steady, continuous 

 progress. The membership is increasing rapidly and 

 there is every indication of further advance. Although 

 we have entered upon the fourth year of this great war 

 and the number of young men is being more and more 

 reduced in the country, the awakening of our nation to 

 the need of more intimate connection with and knowledge 

 of scientific matters is evidenced by the greater desire of 

 people generally to join the scientific and learned Societies. 

 It is well that this should be so, in order that we may 

 be able to make a better fight in the economic and com- 

 mercial war which will inevitably follow the cessation of 

 hostilities. The need is great, and it behoves the members 

 of such societies to use every effort to encourage the 

 advent of new members and to facilitate the development 

 of the new attitude towards scientific thought. This is 

 all the more necessary at the present time, so that when 

 our young men return to peaceful pursuits they will find 

 the way paved for their youthful energy and lines of 

 thought laid out and prepared for them to explore and 

 develop. It is unfair to permit them to make such 



