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at least inadvisable. What is most needed for 

 the future is that the children should ha properly 

 educated. Encourage their taste for botany, but 

 curb the natural propensity for destruction. Show 

 them that to love the plants should necessarily 

 mean to protect them. Teach them that where 

 there are but two specimens of a plant, both 

 should remain unplucked, and that whore there 

 are a dozen, one or even two may be taken. Teach 

 them that phybical strength, which is the standard 

 by which all children calculate the worth of their 

 fellows, is more valiantly used in protecting what 

 is helpless, than in assisting in its ei-adic-ition. 

 As the remedy then tor the tuture, in 

 the protection of plants, my answer is 

 plain and simple, educate the children. 

 Mr. Martin went on to defend the re-introduction 

 of lost species into a locality as a means of 

 remedying- the faults of the past and to refer to 

 the regulations brought into force in March last 

 in the Department of the Savoy with a view to 

 the protection of Alpine plants. He had great 

 doubts of the utility of the adoption of any such 

 measures in England, and advised that, at any 

 rate, they should first appeal to local landowners, 

 without going to Parliament, and obtain promises 

 or consent to sue for trespass when it could be 

 proved that damage to a single plant had been 

 caused. So much for the protection of rare plants, 

 but the landscape was being spoilt by the destruc- 

 tion of the thousands of common plants. This to 

 his mind was the more serious matter of the two 

 and he had but one remedy i:>r it, and that was 

 education. 



These papers were followed by an interesting 

 discussion in which Mr. W. H. Griffin (Catford), 

 Mr. F. Merrifield, I.E.S. (Brighton), Vr. E. G. 

 Gilbert (Tunbridge Wells), and others took part. 



VISIT TO THE CATHEDRAL. 



Accf'pting the kind invitation of Dean Farrar, a 

 number of delegates, at four o'clock, paidavisit to 

 the fine old Cathedral. Under the guidance uf the 

 Sub-Sacririt ( Mr. J. McClemens), whose descrip- 

 tions and explanations were listened to with ket-n 

 interest, the party were shown all over the build- 

 ing, and everyone seemed delighted with the 

 visit. Later on tea was provided for a numerous 

 party at the Deanery, by the Dean and Mrs. 

 Farrar, a very enjoyable time being spent. 



RECEPTION AT THE COUNTY HOTEL. 



A brilliant reception was given by the Qfayorof 

 Canterbury and the Mayoress (Mr. and Mrs. Geoige 

 Collard) at the County Hotel on Friday evening, 

 at wbieh a company of about two hundred persons 

 assembled. Besides the delesrates and members of 

 tht^ Scientific Union a number of citizens were 

 present. Among the guests were the following : 

 Dr. J. Hutchinson (President of the Union), the 

 Depui yMayor (Councillor Netherclif t), M r.Bennett 

 Goldoey, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Collard, Wr. and 

 Mrs. J <.)os. Miss Grace, Miss Alton, Miss Proud- 

 foot, Miss Brodie Sewell, Miss Furley, Miss Cole, 

 Mr. and Mr-. Fi.ildicg, Miss Cooper, the Sheriff and 

 Mrs (Gentry, Mr. and Mrs. Brian Rigiien, Mr. and 

 Mrs. H. J. Goulden,the Misses Lh-fevre, Alderman 

 and Miss Mason, Colonel Hickson, Rev. A. J. and 

 Mrs. Galpin, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Smith, Councillor 

 Kussell, Councillor Godden, Rev. Knowles Kemp- 



ton, Mrs. and Miss Harvey, Mr. and Mrs. Husbands, 

 Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Mann, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. 

 Jennings, Mr. and Mis. Maylam. Mr. J M. Cowper, 

 Miss Paine, Mr. and Mrs. Preston, Rev. W. J. 

 Britton, Mr. and Mr.s. W. P, Thornton, Mr. P. D. 

 Eastes, Mr. and Mrs. Prentice, Miss Sworn, 

 Miss Phillpotts, Miss Holmes, Captain and 

 Miss Stead, Mr. E. H. Johns. Rev. J. Patterson, 

 Mr. H. Baker, Dr. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Henry 

 Harvey, Mr. S. Harvey, Mr. and Mrs. Facer, 

 Miss Page, Mr. F. VVacher, Dr. and MissGogarty, 

 Mr. J. A. Jennings, Mr. James, Mr. and Mrs. 

 Mead Briggs, Councillorand Mrs. Whichcord, Mr. 

 and Mrs. E. M. Kenny. Mr. P. Finn, Mr., Mrs., and 

 Miss Noel, Mr. and Mrs. Coulson, Mr. and Mrs. 

 A nos, Mrs. Hunt, the Misses Hunt, Mr. Wright 

 Hunt, Mr. W. Maasell, Mr. and Mrs. Stephenson, 

 Rev. R. and Mrs. Hall, Mr. A. Lander and Miss 

 Lander, etc. 



The proceedings pa=sed off very pleasantly. It 

 goes without saying that the Mayor and Mayoress 

 entertained their visitors most hospitably, and 

 that his Worship was cordially congratulated upon 

 the recovery of his health since his recent illoess. 

 At intervals the compiuy listened to some 

 delightful music. Mr. C. M. Gann's orchestra 

 discoursed the following programme -.—Overture, 

 "Julius Caesar"; intermezzo and polonaise; 

 graceful dance in B flit ; valse, " Coronation '' ; 

 polka de concert in E flit ; polka. " Frivolity " ; 

 valse, "Bohemian"; gavotte, "Imperial." Mr. 

 Noakea, of the Cathedral Choir, also contributed 

 some songs in a manner wh'ch won high appre- 

 ciation. 



SATURDAY. 



THE PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS. 



There was a large gathering at the meeting of 

 the delegates on Saturday to hear the President 

 (Dr. Jonathan Hutchinson, LL.D.,F.R.S.F.RC.S.) 

 give hU address, and he chose for his subject 



LEPROSY IN THE MIDDLE AGES. 



He said how very much he appreciated the 

 honour of having been elected President, and 

 desired to express regret on his own account that 

 he had not been able to take a larger part in their 

 prjceedmgs at Canterbury, and that the pro- 

 gramme had been altered to suit bis arrange- 

 ments. He was very glad to know that so far as 

 to the success of the meetings, the loss had been 

 his alone, not theirs in the least, everything 

 seemed to have gone on very successfully indeed. 

 His address, instead of being an inaugural one, 

 was really, under the circumstances, a concluding 

 one, and he was bound to confess that he had had 

 consideiable difficulty in the selection of an 

 appropriate subject. He had been reminded of 

 an anecdote which Mr. Max O'Rell u?ed to tell 

 against himself, that when on a lecturing tour h© 

 stopped at a town where there was a lading' college, 

 and be announced as the subject of his lecture 

 *' Women." The day before the lecture he was 

 waited upon by a deputation from the college.who 

 politely requested him that he would change his 

 subject and deal with a subject he really under- 

 stood (laughter). Following that sage advice he 



