54 Iii/iisuria : What are they / 



It may be finally submitted that no complete Infusorial 

 Fauna of any one district in the United Kingdom has, up to 

 the present time, been placed on record, and that it lies in 

 the power of the members of a Natiu-alists' Field Club so 

 favourably located as the one I now address to not only 

 secure for themselves and their fellow-members an in- 

 exhaustible fund of instruction and recreation by a pains- 

 taking investigation of the Infusoria distributed throughout 

 the Forest districts or the wider field of the County at large, 

 but by following out such a study, sytematically and faith- 

 fully, they may materially benefit and advance the cause of 

 Science in connection with a field of research having, as so 

 far explored, a literally lunitless horizon, and where it may 

 advisedly be said, " the harvest truly is plenteous, but the 

 labourers are few." 



