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its brightness, the great square of Pegasus, high in the heavens, 
the large cross of Cygnus, the soft blue Capells, and the Red 
Aldebaran, the Great Bear, Canopus, the striking stars of Gemini 
the twins, and the magnificent constellation of Orion, all seem to 
vie with one another in adding a charm to one of the most restful 
visions ever to be seen. Or turn to a different kind of beauty, the 
wing of a butterfly, or the plumage of a bird, or the beautiful blue 
of a little speedwell in flower in June, how perfect each one is in 
itself, how it can be studied and studied, first by the naked eye, 
then by the microscope, and yet no boundary is reached so that we 
can say ‘‘this is worked out.’ The beauties of nature are an 
incessant source of pleasure to those who will look for them. Do 
you often walk out of an evening? Make yourself familiar with 
the stars and constellations, and planets, and the evening will have 
an ever increasing interest. Are you shut up in a town, do some 
work with the microscope. I can promise you in it an unfailing 
source of interest. Do you get into the country occasionally ?— 
_ learn something about the birds, or the insects, or the shells, or 
ferns, or mosses, or lichens, and your life will have a steadily 
increasing interest and continual pleasures. 
For another temperament, the waves rushing mountains high, 
breaking in white foam, tossed by the gale in the moonlight, have 
a greater fascination, but all minds can find pleastire in some 
branch of nature’s world if they will only try. Let us then, each 
and all of us, do all we can to spread the love of nature. 
A vote of thanks was given for the paper, and the Secretary then 
read the report of the previous year. The number of members at 
present was ninety, and the Balance Sheet showed a sum of 
&7 11s. 8d. in the Treasurer’s hands. 
Dr. Eastes was re-elected President. 
Mr. Walton also as Vice-President. 
The following Members were elected on the Committee :—Dr. 
Knaggs, Rev. W. Hall, Messrs. J. Knight, T. Hambridge, 8. Hills, 
and B. Sawyer. 
The Secretary was re-elected, and Mr. 8. Hills was chosen as 
Assistant Secretary and Librarian. 
It was proposed by Mr. F. Gell, and carried, that there should be 
@ conversazione at as early a date as possible, 
