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Ar the Annual Meeting held at University College, July 24th, 
Dr. Lankester in the Chair, the following Report of the Committee 
was read by the Secretary :— 
“Tn making this their first report of the progress and present 
state of the Quekett Microscopical Club, your Committee consider 
it a subject of congratulation that the Club has not only made a 
great step towards the carrying out the objects for which it was 
started, but can also, from the earnestness with which the 
advantages of the Club have been accepted by the members, 
entertain the most sanguine expectations that in the future its 
objects will he fully realised. 
“So rapidly has the number of members increased, that your 
Committee found it necessary to announce through the chairman 
at the seventh meeting—what was already evident to the members 
generally,—that the room in Sackville Street was no longer capable 
of accomodating the Club ; and our grateful acknowledgments are 
due to the Council of University College for their kindness in 
permitting use the us of their noble Library for our meetings. 
“ No small amount of our success has been due to the influence 
of our President. Ever foremost in any movement haying for its 
object the advancement of popular science, Dr. Lankester at once 
placed himself at our command, and although from his numerous 
public engagements his attendances here have not been so frequent 
as he and ourselves would have desired, he will vacate the chair 
this evening (in accordance with our Bye-Laws), carrying with 
him the sincerity and hearty thanks of your Committee and 
yourselves. 
“The Committee regret to announce for the first time the loss 
of one of the members of the Club by death. At the June 
meeting, Mr. Joseph Toynbee, F.R.S., was proposed, on the 
recommendation of the Committee, as President for the ensuing 
year. At the July meeting it becomes their melancholy duty to 
record that his services are lost to them for ever. The circum- 
stances under which this unfortunate deprivation took place are 
generally known to members, and nothing is left us but to mention 
his name with honour, mingled with expressions of the deepest 
regret. 
“ The subject of class instruction has been tested with the greatest 
success. Through the kindness of our Vice-President, Mr. P. Le 
Neve Foster, a room at the Society of Arts was placed at the 
service of a class formed under the direction of Mr. Suffolk, who 
has generously given much time and patience to impart to the 
members of it a thorough grounding in those important and 
fundamental principles necessary to working with the micro- 
scope, and there is little doubt that a second class, which 
