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botany, he must handle the plants, and dissect the flowers for himself ; 

 in teaching hiai physics or chemistry, you must not be solicitous to fill 

 him with information but you must be careful that what he learns, he 

 knows of his own knowledge. Do not be satisfied with telling him that 

 a magnet attracts iron ; let him feel for himself the pull of the one upon 

 the other. In all other branches of Natural Science, pursue this disci- 

 pline carefully and conscientiously, and you may be sure that, however 

 scanty may be the measure of the information which you have poured 

 into the learner's mind, you have created an intellectual habit of price- 

 less value in practical life. If you are setting to work to teach science, 

 you must teach it through his eyes, his hands and his other senses." 



The work of the Field-Naturalists' Club is, thus, educational in the 

 true sense of the term. The powers of observation are cultivated 

 through the analytical process to which each object is subjected ; the 

 tracing of relations, generalization, classification, the formation of piinci- 

 ples and laws — all these processes which are among the highest of our 

 mental activities are carried on in this practical work. And the mifid 

 will be led from the world of visibilities to that of invisibilities, from 

 matter to mind, from finite to infinite, from Nature to Nature's God. 



Dr, MacCabe wished the Club a very successful winter's course of 

 lectures, and at the close of his most interesting address, which was 

 loudly applauded, Mr. Shutt spoke as follows : 

 Ladies and Gentlemen, 



I am sure you are all of one mind with me when I express very 

 sincere regret at the absence of our President to-night. For some 

 months past, not only the members of the Club, but their friends also, 

 have been anticipating the pleasure of listening to his Inaugural Address 

 this evening — a pleasure which, I trust, is not lost but only postponed. 



I counted the Club especially fortunate, when at our last annual 

 meeting we prevailed upon Dr. Geo. M. Dawson to accept the Presi- 

 dency of our Society. We were indeed, fortunate, in securing as our 

 Chief Officer, a man of such high scientific standing ; of such eminent 

 ability ; of such deep and thorough culture. A man so widely read 

 and so widely travelled, and withal, so genial a gentleman as Dr. 

 Dawson, As most of us are aware, the distinguished honour was con- 



