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this Society will, I trust, ever hold his name in grateful 
memory, for he was truly the high priest and poet of the 
beautiful. All nature in his eyes acquired a double splendour, 
for the Giver was recognised in His Gift, and the mental 
vision went beyond the mere external, into the deep harmony 
and fitness of all things. 
In accordance with what we believe would have been 
the wish of our late President, and in order to perpetuate 
his memory in connection with the study of Natural Science 
in this city, your Committee called a General Meeting on the 
25th February last, when his Grace the Duke or WersTMINSTER 
kindly took the chair. It was then agreed that a Kingsley 
Memorial Fund should be set on foot, to which all our 
Members should be invited to contribute. The money to be 
vested in the hands of Trustees, will have for its object,— 
(Ist) “That a Scholarship (including a Medal), to be 
‘called ‘Tur Kinastny Memoria,’ be founded for the 
“encouragement of Natural Science, to be open to 
“residents and students within the district embraced 
‘by the Society, subject to such regulations as may 
“be hereafter agreed upon.” 
(2nd) “That a Medal may, from time to time, be given 
‘‘by the Chester Society of Natural Science, for Original 
“ Research within the district of the aforesaid Society, 
“and that the Medal be called ‘ Tae Kinastey MemoriaL 
« MEpAL.’”’ 
The fund already collected amounts to about £355. The 
Society at Wrexham joined us most heartily, and we have 
had some few subscriptions from Liverpool; but we trust 
before we close our list (which must be done shortly), that 
there will not be one name wanted from amongst our own 
Members, for it is not so much the amount that each con- 
tributes, as the feeling of union in a common cause which 
will strengthen our hands for good, and prosper us as a 
body in our undertakings. 
