ADDRESS. XXX1x 
However this may be, Gentlemen, I cannot but believe that, were it ne- 
‘cessary or considered advisable, an appeal to the generosity of those friends 
of the Association who have followed its progress from year to year would 
not be made in vain. 
; I cannot conclude this address without expressing the gratitude of the 
Association for the great liberality that has been exhibited by the Corporation 
and inhabitants of Swansea for our reception. It has, on this occasion, been 
é shown in many ways of a most unusual nature for the convenience of the 
"scientific guests that are here expected. I know that all this must have 
‘ been done at a very heavy expense, clearly proving that the inhabitants of 
‘South Wales duly appreciate the importance of scientific pursuits. One of 
our Vice-Presidents, Mr. Dillwyn, whose eminence in the pursuit of natural 
: history has been a great inducement for our visit to Swansea, has greeted 
our arrival with an important volume on the Fauna and Flora of the neigh- 
bourhood, of which he has kindly placed a considerable number of copies to 
be used for the advantage of gentlemen most interested in botany and phy- 
siology. The edifice in which I address you is consecrated to religion ; 
_ thereby intimating the belief that science, when followed in a right spirit, is 
_a pursuit not unworthy of those who are believers in the World’s Book as 
_ well as inquirers after the material works of the Almighty ;—intimating also 
‘the hope that the British Association will ever seek after knowledge in a 
Christian spirit of kindness and humility, for the benefit of man and the glory 
of God. 
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