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physiology, the benefits of whose results not only 

 Europe, but this country now enjoys. 



The manifest enthusiasm and devotion, which we 

 see exhibited in these instances are neither rare nor 

 singular. And it may be safely asserted, that a sim- 

 ilar, if not so intense attention, would be awakened in 

 every one who willingly entered the field of study. 

 The very results of such pursuits produce that desid- 

 eratum, which at first was thought indispensable. 

 Analysis, observation, experiment and actual demon- 

 stration, all essential to success, render the perception 

 and adoption of system arid nomenclature gradually 

 easy of comprehension. 



It were hardly necessary for me in this place and 

 on this occasion to expatiate on the reasons for an 

 attention to Natural Science, or point out the benefits 

 arising from its pursuit. In a community like ours, in 

 which an attention to Agriculture as well as to Com- 

 merce is so extensive, and the spirit of sound practice 

 with judicious theory adopted, the natural advantages 

 of some acquaintance with other, and not immediate, 

 though still connected subjects, must be apparent. 

 Permit me therefore to congratulate you on the sym- 

 pathy, which we have received from the aid and mu- 

 tual assistance of individuals, engaged and practical 

 in such employments employments the first, greatest 

 and most important of civilized life whose names are 

 enrolled on our records and whose talents and devotion 

 to the studies of their choice are known and acknowl- 

 edged. We trust that their influence in co-operation 

 with our own will be yet more widely felt, in giving a 

 new impulse to the success and prosperity of Agricultu- 



