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M'Clintocks yet unborn, not only to the Arctic, but to the still less known 

 Antarctic regions ; and that they will go forth in the true spirit of sci- 

 entific research — -pro dignitate et augmentn seientiarum, bearing on their 

 flags that ancient Hebrew prophecy, which Laplace mistook for an 

 aphorism of our immortal Bacon — Mttlti pektbansibunt et atjgebitub 

 Scientia ! 



The Kev. Peofessob Haughton, A. M., F. R S., V. P., in seconding 

 the resolution, said : — 



Sib, — On rising to second the adoption of the Address which has been 

 so learnedly spoken to by Dr. Todd, who proposed it, I would wish to say 

 a few words to this meeting, — which contains a number of visitors to our 

 Zoological and Botanical Association, as well as, I am happy to say, 

 many of its members, — a few words of a prefatory character as to the 

 origin of this Association, as to the nature of its proceedings, and as to 

 the manner in which we became connected with the distinguished mem- 

 ber of our Association whom we are assembled here to honour to-day, 

 and, in doing bo, to confer an equal honour upon ourselves. The Zoo- 

 logical Association of this University is the creation of the young men 

 of the University themselves. It is no foreign growth which has taken 

 root within our walls ; it sprung up amongst us from a feeling and a 

 want that was experienced by the students in this University of some 

 society or association in which young men might meet together, as young 

 men, to discuss questions connected with natural history — questions 

 connected with nature, a tendency to investigate which is, I believe, 

 inherent in every human breast. This Association expresses the want 

 that was felt in our educational system. The time had come when we 

 could be no longer satisfied with the literature of Greece and Rome, or 

 the study of abstract mathematics merely. The study of mankind, as 

 such, in their religious, moral, and social nature, has been, and always 

 will be, the highest object for human learning. But the study of 

 nature, since the commencement of this century, has increased with 

 rapid strides. It was begun in a world outside the universities, 

 and is now within their walls, and has found an echo in the hearts of 

 the young men of this Society, and societies such as this. The au- 

 thorities of the University met this want as far as in them lay, 

 by introducing these subjects into the curriculum of our University edu- 

 cation ; but the authorities of the University could not do all that re- 

 quired to be done for the furtherance of natural science within these 



