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may be accounted worthy to be thrown into the treasuries of 

 science. 



Far distant be the day when the Bath Naturalists' Field 

 Club shall have become a thing of the past. In our own 

 time, at least, let it not be said — " There was such a Club, 

 but, for lack of zeal on the part of those who engaged to do 

 its work, for lack of encouragement and support on the part 

 of others, who joined it as well-wishers for its success, if as 

 nothing more, it gradually fell away to nothing." 



