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have remarked with feeling, “This shall not happen again;” and so, 
when called out to face such weather as prevailed that evening, he 
himself was strongly impelled to say, “ This shall not happen again.” 
He only hoped that Dr. Dallinger, who had gone to fulfil an engage- 
ment in Wales, would not sutler from the effects of the very severe 
weather, especially after the two attacks of influenza which he had 
experienced within six weeks. Perhaps he might also be permitted 
to take the opportunity of returning thanks on behalf of another 
absent officer, Mr. Crisp, and in doing so he mi^ht say that if there 
was any officer of the Society to whom a vote of thanks should le 
given, that person was Mr. Crisp. If they took the statement of 
accounts for this year and compared it with that for the year before, 
they w T ould notice that the expenses of the Journal, as there showD, 
appeared to be very much heavier. As a matter of fact, the actual cost 
of the Journal this year was not greater, although there appeared to ho 
a difference of about 400Z. Sums of 4001. had been paid by some one. 
That the heavy expense incurred on account of the Journal had been 
justified, was shown by the fact that the outside sale had gone up 
in a remarkable way, and it had become widely known as a publication of 
exceptional value. All this had been entirely done by Mr. Crisp, and at 
a cost to himself that would perhaps never be known ; but, apart from the 
question of cost, all had been done with such a desire to improve 
the Journal and to serve the Society, that he thought a vote of thanks 
to the Treasurer should be taken separately, to show their sense of the 
very important services he had rendered. 
The President said he could only bear witness to the correctness of 
what had been said by Prof. Bell as to the value of the Journal, and he 
did not hesitate to say that there was no other journal published by 
any other society which would stand comparison with it. This was not 
merely an opinion of his own, he had heard it so stated from Germany 
and the United States, where it was recognized as containing an account 
of the whole progress of biological science, and providing a means by 
which everybody could keep themselves posted up in whatever related 
to microscopy and biology, To Mr. Crisp alone belonged the credit 
of having carried on the Journal to its present state of efficiency. 
The following Instruments, Objects, &c., were exhibited: — 
The President : — Specimens illustrating the Annual Address. 
Mr. M. J. Hermann : — Volvox globator, Melicerta ringens, &c. 
Messrs. W. Watson : — Vertical Photomicrographic Apparatus. 
New Fellows: — The following were elected Ordinary Fellows; — 
The Bev. N. Abraham, Mr. John Henry Bridge, Dr. Gottlieb Mark- 
tanner-Turneretscher, Messrs. Herbert Frederick Oddy, Henry Pye, 
and Charles Gabriel Seligmann. 
1892. 
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