106 The President's Address. 



voted to tlie respective donors. Among the first con- 

 tributions of value to the Museum is the Herbarium 

 of mosses and hchens, formed by Richard Warner, pre- 

 sented by Sir J. Clarke Jervoise, Bart. I am also glad to be 

 able to inform you that the Rev. Francis Walker, of Dry 

 Drayton, has recently offered us his ornithological and ento- 

 mological collections formed in that parish. As the 

 specimens were all collected in the neighbouring county of 

 Cambridgeshire, this generous offer has been accepted, and, 

 in accordance with the wishes of the donor, the collection 

 will be kept separate in our Museum. I trust that ^t no 

 very distant period it may be the duty of your President to 

 announce that we have outgrown our present accommoda- 

 tion ; this will be a sure sign that we have w^orkers in our 

 midst, and an appeal for disestablishment from our present 

 c[uarters may then be met by substantial support. 



In the course of our endeavours to promote science in 

 this neighbourhood, a series of winter lectures has been 

 commenced, the first of which, on Forest Animals, delivered 

 in November by our w^ell-known colleague Mr. J. E. Hart- 

 ing, has been published in full in our " Transactions." The 

 second lecture of the session, delivered at the beginning of 

 this month by Mr. A. R. Wallace, on "The Natural His- 

 tory of Islands," nmst yet be fresh in your memories. 

 Although this discourse was replete wuth facts and argu- 

 ments of the highest importance, and we had the privilege 

 of hearing directly from the mouth of the investigator a 

 most masterly exposition of those subjects which he has 

 made his life -study, w^e cannot fairly consider it within our 

 power to print this lecture verbatim. The subjects treated 

 of by Mr. Wallace will be found in one of the Manchester 

 Science Lectures, and fully elaborated in his ** Island Life," 

 to which w^ork I may refer any of our members who 

 require further information ; the lecturer's remarks, more- 

 over, covered a field too wide to be considered as legiti- 

 mately coming within our province as a local Club. We 

 shall hope to continue these lectures from time to time 

 during the present session at least, and as their object is 



