FAREWELL DINNER 
TO 
THE REV. A. H. FISH, B.A., B.Sc. 

On Monday, June 7th, the Members of the Management Committee 
of the Grosvenor Museum, the Officers and Members of the Committee of 
our own Society, and also of the Archwological Society, and the Schools, 
entertained the Rev. A. H. Fisu, B.A., B.Sc., to Dinner at.the Grosvenor 
Hotel, on the eve of his departure for Clifton. 
Mr. G. R. Grirritx, J.P. (Chairman of the Management Committee), 
presided over a large company. 
The speakers were The CHarrMAN, Mr. G. P. Mixn (President of our 
Society), Mr. J. D. Srppatt, Mr. F. W. Lonesorrom, The Rey. Canon 
SpurLine, and Mr. Joun Dopp, who kindly undertook all the arrange- 
ments. 
Replying to the toast of the evening, proposed in felicitous terms by 
The CuarrMAn, Mr. Fisu referred in feeling words to his early connection 
with the Natural Science Society; to the many memories associated with 
it; and to the influence which it had exerted upon his own life. 
More than any other Institution, the Natural Science Society had 
been for him the Alma Mater, which had nursed and quickened whatever 
was best in him. In all ways he remained and should always remain the 
Society’s debtor and servant. 
The life of the Archzological Society was assured. The life of their 
native City appealed not only to their interest, but also to their affections. 
The interest of the Natural Science Society was pledged not only to 
the past, but also to the future. Science was the most rapidly growing 
power the world had ever seen; but she was still very young. Vast fields 
of discovery and enterprise still lay before her. Very, very few could 
directly be explorers in those fields. The future of the Society depended 
largely upon their power to encourage, to cherish, and to develop what- 
ever germs of scientific ability might arise among them; and to provide a 
congenial soil in which these might grow. Science had done much; it 
would do more. It would not only put power over the material universe— 
as yet undreamed of—into the hands of man, but it would in the end 
point the way to the solution of those most difficult questions of the 
moral and social life of man, which had come down unsolved from 
generation to generation, 
