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MR. J. MOTTRAM ON THE NORFOLK AND NORWICH 
The Order was renewed for a further period of one year from 
the 1st of May, 1896. The means are thus obtained of offering 
a very considerable amount of protection to the rarer birds nesting 
in the County of Norfolk, but it must be remembered that Acts of 
Parliament, however excellent, will not enforce themselves, and 
that to be of any service some means must be devised of making 
them effectual. The examples set by the Breydon Protection 
Society, and the similar Society at Wells, which are both doing 
excellent work at very little cost, should stimulate other districts to 
similar action, but it must still remain very much a “ landlord’s 
question,” and if those who have had provided for them such 
a simple means of protecting the rare and interesting birds which 
visit their estates will not avail themselves of its advantages, the 
Act will, I fear, remain to a great extent a dead letter. 
T. S. 
XIII. 
THE NORFOLK ANI) NORWICH MICROSCOPICAL 
SOCIETY, 1852—1884. 
By James Mottram. 
Read March 80th, 1896. 
It has been suggested as desirable that some record shoidd be 
made in our Transactions of the Microscopical Society and of some 
of its members. I gladly therefore endeavour to recall the 
pleasant memories which remain to me of its meetings. 
As I write, I have before me its minute book kept by its first 
secretary, W. K. Bridgman, who relates that on 19th December, 
1852, there met at the house of the Rev. Joseph Crompton, besides 
himself, Thomas Brightwell, F.L.S., Rev. James Landy Brown, 
M.A., Arthur Morgan, and William Kencely Bridgman, with the 
object of forming a Microscopical Society, and at an adjourned 
