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PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 
the younger Fellows of the Society, who were training for mathematical 
and scientific work, who were qualifying themselves for filling a posi- 
tion such as that, seeing how few there were who could be found to 
occupy it with distinction. 
Prof. F. Jeffrey Bell did not know that he could add much to what 
the Fellows of the Society had already read and heard as to the severe 
loss which they had suffered. Those who attended their meetings were 
able to form some idea of the knowledge which Mr. Mayall possessed, 
and the remarkable critical power which he brought to bear upon 
subjects which came before them. But whilst there were some present 
who could speak as to Mr. Mayall’s knowledge far better than he could, 
no one knew him better in the character of a colleague or could speak 
more highly of him as such, more especially when he remembered what 
the Society had passed through during the period of his association with 
it as one of its Secretaries. They had been uprooted from the place 
where they had for so long a time flourished, and they had also lost one 
who was their right-hand man for many years ; but in the important 
business of their removal, and pending the appointment of an Assistant 
Secretary, Mr. Mayall showed a degree of activity which enabled those 
two important matters to be carried though successfully and with very 
little trouble to any one else concerned. To supply the place of such 
a colleague would be no easy task, for he did not think they would be 
able to find another who, whilst possessed of equal ‘knowledge of those 
subjects which came before them, would be able to give the amount of 
ungrudging service to the Society which Mr. Mayall had constantly 
done. Although not unprepared for the announcement, the telegram 
which he received during his holiday conveying the intimation of his 
death came to him as a blow, and produced a sense of sadness which 
long remained. 
Mr. F. Crisp said that Prof. Bell had anticipated much of what he 
was going to say, although he could not only speak of Mr. Mayall as a 
colleague in the Society but also as an intimate personal friend. As 
regarded his knowledge, no one not closely acquainted with him could 
estimate the loss to Microscopy which had occurred by his death, for 
there was no one in the world who knew so much of the history of the 
Microscope as he did, whilst his name would have to be included in 
any list of the half-dozen best manipulators to be found in this or 
any other country. Having known him so well personally he could say 
that he had always found him certainly to be of a most amiable 
character. Some persons there were who thought him to be can- 
tankerous, but those who knew him better, knew him to be far otherwise ; 
and although there was one point upon which they used to differ, this 
was but the exception which proved the rule. Both personally, and as 
regarded the Society, he felt they had sustained a very great loss which 
it would take many years to get over. 
Dr. W. H. Dallinger having, amidst considerable applause, taken 
his seat on the platform as one of the Secretaries, said he was very 
much obliged to those present for the kindly expression of their feelings 
towards him under the circumstances ; it would help him in his work. 
