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Several persons here asked for Mr. Ullyett, but that 

 gentleman not being in the room 



The Rev. C. J. Taylor 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. FitzGerald 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, 



Evening Meeting 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 



