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latly, who took up the pursuit of Natural History, not to 

 indulge iu it on the Lord's day. They should not forget 

 that the God of Nature was the God of the Bible, and that 

 he tells in the Bible what his will is ; and, while they were 

 indulging their love for Nature, they should take care to do 

 so in a religious spirit and not commit a sin by breaking 

 one of His positive commandments. He advised all who 

 had not got a volume like the one in his hand, to purchase 

 one immediately. The cost was only Is., and while they 

 would find in it a great deal of valuable and interesting 

 reading, they would learn also to look from Nature up to 

 Nature's God. (Hear, hear.) This season of the year 

 was usually very rich in regard to insect life, the glow 

 worm forming a most interesting object for the observation 

 of those who were fortunate enough to discover it. He 

 might observe, what was perhaps not known to all present, 

 that the glow worm was only the female insect, the male 

 being a winged beetle. The glow worm had formed a sub- 

 ject for the poet's muse, and one writer had said *s^ 



Thine is an unobtrusive blaze, 

 Content in lowly shades to shine ; 



How much I wish, while yet I gaze, 

 To make thy modest merit mine ! 



After some further general observations the ChairtfTan con- 

 cluded, amid considerable applause, by quoting the follow- 

 ing beautifully expressive and appropriate lines : — 



' Where sense can reach or fancy rove, 

 From hill to field, from field to grove, 

 Across the waves, or round the sky. 

 There's not a spot, nor deep, nor high, 

 Where the Creator hath not trod 

 And left the footsteps of a God. 



Mr. William Harris, F.G.S., of Charing, read a paper 

 entitled " Outlines of the Geological History of the 

 Country between Kingsnorth and Eastwell Park." He 

 said : As the section of this district selected for my 

 lecture, and over which many of you have rambled this 

 morning, embraces an assemblage of rocks of so many 

 varieties, composed of clays, gravels, • and limestones, 



