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their first meeting in the place. It was full of interest, and the subject 
could not have, perhaps, been so well dealt with by any one who was 
not situated as Mr. Scott was. He had been reminded by the 
Secretary that they had very nearly reached their majority—the 
Society had been in existence nearly 21 years -—and he hoped that when 
they had become a man, and now they had got into new quarters, 
where they had the opportunity, they would do something more than 
they did in their childish days. 
Mr. WONFOR remarked that Mr. Scott had in his paper brought 
before them plenty of new facts, notwithstanding that he had dis- 
claimed doing so. In regard to the classification of the British and 
foreign departments of Geology in the Museum, the local and foreign 
collections of Zoology, &c., in the Museum were placed -side by side. 
In the specimens representing a series or order of birds, foreign and 
British had no distinction whatever, there was the name only, as to 
whether they were British or foreign, still they were placed as they 
would be in a general collection. Therefore it seemed to him that 
this mode should be carried out in the arrangement of other depart- 
ments in the Museum. 
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Let them do all they could to develop the local geology of the 
county, and he had heard that their local Geology was well 
developed, and that they had admirable collections from the Chalk and 
Wealden ; still they had specially to consider the education of learners 
in this district, and this could not be done unless ‘they placed before 
their minds the great grasp of the general subject. So far as British 
and foreign geology was concerned, they were mere names brought 
about by accidental circumstances, it was not like flora and fauna, 
specimens of geology could not live, they could not grow in this island, 
the same series existed in other places, and he thought the British and 
foreign specimens should be placed side by side. 
The PRESIDENT, although not a geologist, supported the same 
view, as he thought if they had a broad science which extended over 
the world, they should not restrict themselves to local and insular 
matters. 
Mr. PANKHURST remarked. upon the fact that in their Society. 
every science seemed to have more interested in it and who were able 
to talk about it than Geology. 
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