At the open meeting of the Shanghai Young Men's Institute, hold in the Royal Society's Library on Thuraitay 1g (13th), Mr, Chas, Riddle delivered an interesting lecture on "The Microscopy." There were about sixty Indies and gontlomen present—attracted, it is natural to suppose, more by the announcement that Tectitre would be illustrated than by subject of the lecture itself. That there are microscopists in our midst was sufliciontly evidenced at the lecture by the display of microscopes, boxes of slides, e.—many of them, we understand, being lent for the occasion; but the number of these patient students of minute objects is unquestionably small. At the outset the lecturer apologised for addrossthe sudioncs on what might seem to them a dry subject, a subject which could hardly fail to be unpalatable to such us held fast to the creed of "a short lifo and a merry one" during their brief sta abroad; and also expressed the natural diffidence he felt in lecturing before others
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