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pedestrian who must toil slowly on foot over ground over which 

 his better educated friends are whirled along by steam. 



I have now said what I had to say. You will pardon me if I 

 have seemed to treat my subject in some places in a somewhat 

 lighter vein than usual, for I assure you that there is a serious 

 meaning under it ; and you will join with me in the hope that the 

 Harrow Scientific Society will deserve in the future, no less than it 

 has done in the past, to be likened to one of those " Happy 

 Families" which we see sometimes in the streets of London, which 

 instruct as well as amuse the bystander, and unite in the bond of 

 a common society a strange variety of many kinds of beasts. 



Saturday, October 5th, 1867. 



The Thirty-third Meeting of the Society was held at Mr. Bull's 

 House. 



Elgood was elected a member of the Society. 



Mr. Farrar mentioned that Mr. Ruskin had presented to the 

 School a handsome collection of minerals and crystals ; and on 

 the motion of the President, seconded by Mr. Farrar, a formal 

 vote of thanks to him was drawn up and signed by the members 

 of the Society. 



Mr. Farrar announced that Mr. Ruskin had kindly promised to 

 deliver another address to the Society. 



The exhibitions were : — 



A Seaweed from New Zealand 

 Quartz with Nuggets of Gold 

 An unusually small Pheasant's egg 

 A Shop Sign-board, from Abydos 



By Eterard. 



From Mb. Rtjskin's collection. 



By Mr. Farrar. 



By Ayre. 



Several Scientific Instruments ; a Donny's Tube ; a Philosophical Ham- 

 mer: Franklin's Pulse Glass .. .. By Mb. Griffith. 



Fossils from the Suffolk Craar 



By Evans. 



Parsons then read a Paper on Glaciers. 



