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evolved, would be i-e-affirmed again and again. Before concluding, 

 he had to thank the Dii'ectors of the Brighton Aquarium for having 

 done so much, up to this time, for science ; might they go forward 

 and prosper; might their energetic Manager (Mr. G. Reeves Smith), 

 go on adding to the attractions of the Aquarium ; might their 

 good friend Mr. Henry Lee add to his laurels, by his observations 

 of marine life ; and might Nurse Lawler, and his staff, efficiently 

 carry out their arduous task of attending to their water babies ; 

 and might the Brighton Aquai'ium, the pioneer on so large a scale, 

 continue to be, as it was, a national institution. (Mr Wonfor 

 resumed his seat amidst loud and continued applause.) 



The Peesident, Mr. Alderman Cox, said he had great 

 pleasui-e in proposing that the best thanks of the society be given 

 to Mr. Wonfor for his able and istructive paper. Mr. Wonfor had, 

 as they knew, been connected with the society for upwai'ds of 

 twenty-one years; and though that gentleman had rendered many 

 services to science, he very much questioned whether, on this par- 

 ticular occasion, he had not rendered the greatest of all, because he 

 had called the attention of the society — comprising a3 it did the 

 leading scientific men of Brighton — to the advantages which they 

 possessed, and possessed exclusively, in the Brighton Aquarium, 



The Hon. Howe Browne said that, perhaps, fi-om no one in 

 the assembly could it come more gracefully than himself to second 

 the motion which had been moved from the chair. As a member 

 of the society, and as one of the Directors of the Brighton 

 Aquarium, he considered that their best thanks were due to Mr. 

 Wonfor for the able, interesting, and instructive paper which he 

 had put before the meeting. He could corroborate all Mr. Wonfor 

 had said with regard to what the Aquarium had done for science, 

 and for the education of the people generally, for he knew that 

 many thousands of persons who, before the establishment of the 

 institution, had been ignorant of the habits and lives of marine 

 animals, were now conversant with them. He knew this to be so 

 in his own case; and from study of the habits of the fish he had 

 derived the greatest possible benefit and gratification. With re- 

 gard to the establishment of a museum in connection with the 

 Aquarium, he could only say that an enlargement of the building 

 was being carried out, which he hoped would afford them an oppor- 



