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do something as a nation ; and in no respect more than by 

 encouraging and promoting expeditions to foreign countries, 

 deputing naturalists to those parts of the globe which have 

 been least explored, and affording the means of making 

 known to the public the fruits of their researches. France 

 has long since set us an example in undertakings of this 



nature I apprehend we have effected very little as a 



nation, which will bear to stand in competition with what has 

 been done in this way by France, and some other nations on 

 the Continent which might be mentioned. 



" Such are the hints which, with much diffidence, I would 

 venture to throw out for the further promotion of zoology. 

 I have only to add, that, with reference to the progress it is 

 actually making in our own country, and the promise which 

 is held out of uninterrupted advancement, comparing this 

 country, not with others, but with itself at former periods, 

 there is ground for much exultation." 



[The author has next proceeded to mention that important 

 works and memoirs have appeared among us; that channels 

 have been opened for the more successful cultivation of this 

 science; and that the Zoological Society, founded in 1826, 

 has contributed more than any thing to this impulse, by its 

 correspondence, gardens, museum, and Transactions. ~] " But 

 it is not merely in the institution of the Zoological Society 

 that we trace a rising spirit of enquiry into this branch of 

 science : we see it in the establishment of natural history 

 societies in almost all the principal towns of England .... 

 This circumstance alone speaks to a more generally diffused 

 taste for zoology, which is the first step towards the advance- 

 ment of zoology itself. It is only necessary to give a proper 

 direction to the researches of these societies, to point out 

 those departments which need most cultivation ; and we may 

 reasonably hope that the time is not far distant, when 

 England will no longer be considered behind her Continental 

 neighbours in this, any more than in other sciences." 



The Council of the Worcestershire Natural History Society : 

 Proceedings at the Second Anniversary Festival of the 

 Worcestershire Natural History Society, with the Address 

 of the Council, delivered by C. Hastings, M.D. F.G.S. ; 

 the Speech of the Right Hon. Lord Lyttleton, Lord-Lieu- 

 tenant of the County, on laying the First Stone of the 

 Worcestershire Museum; Report of the various Speeches 

 at the Dinner, Names of the Officers and Council, List of 

 Donations, &c. 8vo, 64 pages ; with an engraving of a 

 view of the " Elevation of the Worcestershire Museum, 



