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holding of a meeting, at which Dr. King presided, and this 

 meeting was the origin of the present Society. Mr. Home was 

 one of the Secretaries ; the other leaving after a few months, he 

 (Mr. Wonfor) was brought into practical connection with the 

 Society. When Mr. Home resigned his position, he was 

 succeeded by Mr. Onions, but Mr. Home continued his connection 

 with the Society as Treasurer, Subsequently he left Brighton 

 and went to reside at Torquay. But the Society, loath to lose 

 him, pressed him still to continue as Treasurer. This post he 

 after a time resigned and was then by special vote of the Society 

 elected a Vice-President, an office he continued to hold until his 

 death, on the Sunday or Monday previous. All who knew him, 

 knew him as a genial, kind-hearted man, who wherever he 

 went gathered around him a number of friends. He had a large 

 number of friends in Brighton ; and in Torquay he had also left, 

 as in Brighton, a great gap. He (Mr. Wonfor) felt strongly 

 his loss, because Mr. Home had been a great friend to him in his 

 early residence in Brighton, and gaye him a good deal of advice 

 and comfort. At starting the Society had very humble ideas 

 — simply of taking in a few periodicals, meeting occasionally, 

 reading papers, and having discussions. The meetings were then 

 held at the Dispensary ; and he might mention as an instance of 

 their lowly aims that one paper was read at two successive 

 meetings, the President, who was absent on the first occasion, 

 wishing to hear it read. Such a circumstance he believed had never 

 occurred before in connection with any other Society. Since that 

 time they had grown considerably, and had now about five times 

 the number of Members ; though he wished some of them would 

 .show the same amount of energy as the originators of the Society. 



November 23rd. 

 MICROSCOPICAL MEETING. 

 Mr. G. D. Sawyer (the President), Mr. J. E. Haselwood 

 Mr. T. Glaisyer (the Treasurer), and Mr. E. Gliasyer (the 



