A? a means of obtaining information so beneficial to hu- 

 manity, so calculated to enrich the yet scanty agriculture of 

 this country, and thus to increase her productiveness, the 

 Society will at all times receive with thankfulness contribu- 

 tions bearing upon any of them ; its obligations to individual 

 contributors will beduly acknowledged and widely circula- 

 tetl. Specimenssofurnishedwillbeaddedtothccabinetwith 

 the names of the donors. The collection of the Society is 

 already become a valuable one, and is rapidly improving.- 

 Its utility is incalculably increased by the measures taken 

 to classify and arrange the specimens, so that in time the 

 rooms of the Society must become in many branches of 

 Natural History, as it already is in Mineralogy, a valuable 

 school of information. Its doors will be widely opened to 

 all contributors, and these again will thus be rewarded 

 for the aid they have aflbrded. There is no doubt also that 

 the Society will be willing to enrol among its corresponding 

 members, all who are residing at a distance, and who 

 prove their wish to carry on its views by contributing their 

 own observations ; and especially those who furnish it 

 With well .utlienticated facts, and also enrich its cabinet 

 by their contributions. 



/nthus addressing the enlightened portion of the com- 

 mmnty the Committee hope they do not call in vain upon 

 •t for all the aid which can be affurded towards the attain- 

 ment of an object of such paramount importance, whether 

 a» regards the general prosperity of the country, the 

 acquisition and dispersion of much useful information, and 

 the awakening a relish for laudable pursuits generally. 



JOS. SKEY, M. D. 



JJrj^!/. JilsjHvtor of Iluspitais; 



