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that it runs the risk even of being forgotten from want of opposition. 
But the results of his victory remain ; and it is not too much to say that 
to it is, in a very large measure, due the great improvement in our 
lenses which has taken place within the last few years, culminating in 
those beautiful apochromatic objectives which give promise of making 
many things familiar to us about which, hitherto, we have only feebly 
guessed. 
Nor can our thanks stop here : for I think that on an occasion like 
this, I may be permitted to allude to the material assistance which 
Mr. Crisp has generously given to the Society, in the heavy expenses of 
the Journal, and to tender him our hearty thanks for that assistance. 
It is enough, indeed, merely to mention the fact, which speaks volumes 
for the interest that Mr. Crisp takes both in microscopical science and 
in the Koyal Microscopical Society itself. 
We are, too, all greatly indebted to our senior Secretary for the 
opportunities that he has given us of studying his splendid collection of 
Microscopes, from the earliest to the most modern times, and of rare 
books which treat of their use and structure : and I am sure that when 
he next surveys the cabinets which hold his treasures he may say, as his 
eye rests on the twelve goodly volumes of our Journal, ‘Monumentum 
exegi 8ere perennius.’ 
It is, morever, a source of no little satisfaction to us all that 
Mr. Crisp has accepted the office of Treasurer, so that we shall still 
benefit by his able advice and kindly presence ; and in conclusion I can 
only assure him (speaking as I do for the whole Society), that in retiring 
from the Secretaryship he takes with him our warmest thanks, and 
our heartiest good wishes for his continued health, happiness, and 
prosperity.” 
He felt that it was unnecessary for him to call upon any one to move 
and second the adoption of that Avhich he had read, and would therefore 
put it at once to them. The resolution was carried by acclamation. 
Mr. Crisp said if he were now upon the point of altogether retiring 
from his official connection with the Society, he should perhaps take a 
more formal farewell than it was his intention to do under the circum- 
stances, inasmuch as he was only shifting his position from one office to 
another, and intended to continue to attend all the meetings, just the 
same as he had done, with one exception, during the last twelve years. 
The President had drawn rather too rosy a picture of his association 
with them during that period ; that, however, could be corrected before 
it appeared in print. But whilst he thanked them sincerely for this 
expression of goodwill, he could hardly regard what he had done as 
altogether arising from disinterested motives, because he had taken 
great pleasure in the work connected with the Society, which had been 
to him a matter both of relaxation and amusement, and any expenditure 
incurred had been more than repaid by the advantages he had derived 
from it. 
The Eev. T. S. King said he should like — as one of the country 
Fellows of the Society — to say how greatly those who, like himself, 
lived at a distance from London, felt their indebtedness to Mr. Crisp for 
the way in which he had supplied them with the remarkable amount of 
information to be found in the Journal. He ventured to hope that the 
