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of pictorial Art in its advancement, and the study of the heavenly 
bodies has been thereby placed within the comprehension of all 
classes, and therefore Art and Science have and ever will, jointly 
or separately, tend to the moral improvement, civilization, and 
consequent happiness of all mankind. I cannot better conclude this 
address than by mentioning that amongst the books which this 
Society has accumulated, there is one for which the Naturalist 
seldom thinks of asking, but which at first sight attracts the 
Artist. It is the Society’s Album. There are to be found the 
counterfeit presentment of many who are dear to us now, and 
many more who were dear to us in past years. 1n the earlier part 
of that book are preserved some excellent sketches of places 
visited in former excursions, the work of hands, many of which 
have been cold for years. I am sorry that so few additions of the 
kind have been lately made. It is a sign that you have not so 
many artists and amateurs in your ranks as formerly. Such little 
“souvenirs” were valuable as recalling the memory of many a 
happy day, and their execution was not only an agreeable occupa- 
tion to the draughtsman, but frequently afforded to his Naturalist 
companions a pleasure similar to that which he himself felt, when 
they displayed before his wondering eyes the marvels among 
which he had wandered so unconsciously. It will bea pleasure to 
me, as well as my duty, to contribute to the Society’s Album during 
my year of office, and to enrich it with some records of the 
interesting spots we may visit, with the hope that other members 
will follow the example, and thereby amply illustrate the relation 
of Art to Science. 
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 131TH, 1889. 
REMARKS ON THE LAWS OF NATURE, 
BY 
BR. AV HE GeiNOU RSE, .F.R.C:S: 
I. Every material substance exists and acts according to its 
own unchangeable conditions, named, for convenience sake, laws. 
The heavens and the earth, with all the things they contain, we 
often call Nature, the word signifying nothing more than the entire 
sum of material things around us. The phrase, Laws of Nature, 
merely means the separate conditions of existence and action 
