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their journal would interfere with our interests. But 

 as they have not thought fit to do so, we heartily forgive 

 them, and here hold out the right hand of fellowship to them 

 as fellow-journalists. Of course, we hold our right to fall 

 foul of them, to criticise them severely, and to encourage 

 them benignly, as all elder journalists think they have a right 

 to do with the younger and aspiring fry. j 



Our young competitor is small, as most babies are, but still 

 it gives promise of a vigorous growth. The original papers 

 are interesting, and we should have been glad to have pub- 

 lished them in our own Journal had they been sent us. We 

 think they would have been no disgrace to the ' Transactions' 

 of our own Royal Society. One of the features of the journal 

 is a " Microscopical Bibliography," which, if it is continued 

 as well as it has been begun, will be a real acquisition to 

 microscopic observers. Our young friend has not, in the 

 present number, ventured on plates ; and as these are ex- 

 pensive things, as we know to our cost, it will probably, with 

 the wisdom which has characterised all the proceedings of 

 the Club, consider well this question in the future. 



In conclusion, we heartily wish the Quekett Microscopical 

 Club and its Journal success, feeling assured that no earnest 

 effort in scientific research is ever lost. Tlie jealousies and 

 rivalries, yea, even the noble ambition of seekers for the truth, 

 will all one day be thrown into oblivion, but the smallest 

 contribution to the accumulated stores of human knowledge 

 will remain for ever, the imperishable record of the existence 

 of the man who made it. 



