Objects of a Patural Srienee Socicty. 
At a General Meeting, held at the Old Palace, on Wednesday, 
the 25th October, 1871—ihe Worshipful the Mayor or 
CaEstTER in the Chair — 
A. O. Watxer, Esq., read a Paper on the ‘Objects of a 
Natural Science Society.” He referred to the advantages that 
would be derived if a local museum could be established. He 
suggested that three Sections be formed—viz., Geological, 
Botanical, and Zoological. It was afterwards resolved that the 
Botanical Section should meet on the first Thursday in each 
month; the Zoological Section on the second Thursday ; the 
Geological Section on the third Thursday ; and that a General 
Meeting of the Society should be held on the last Thursday in 
each month. He also urged upon the Society the desirability 
of thoroughly investigating the Natural History of its own 
district, and of attempting to show the connection between 
its Fauna, Flora, Soil, and Climate, and entreated them not 
to be discouraged even if no results appeared during the life- 
time of the present members, as it would only be by the 
comparison of data, accumulated by many such Societies, that 
such a connection would in all probability ever be traced. 
He further defined the district to consist of the six squares 
of the 1-inch Ordnance Survey, of which Chester is almost 
the centre, but excluding all on the other side of the Mersey. 
[The above suggestions were adopted and have remained in 
force ever since; but a fourth Section of Natural Philosophy, 
to include the Physical Sciences, was subsequently added, and 
the district was enlarged by taking in the whole of the Counties 
of Flint and Denbigh. } 
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