ADDRESS. 



Mr. President, and Members of the 



Essex County Natural History Society, 



THE duty of appearing before you on this 

 occasion, to deliver the first anniversary Address of 

 our County Society for the promotion of the study of 

 Natural History, I accept with pleasure. Interested 

 in the same common object, I hail with delight the 

 present prospect of success, and anticipate with in- 

 creasing confidence our future results. 



As in some proposed expedition, or private and 

 solitary ramble in pursuit of the subjects of our study, 

 we occasionally cast a look behind, rejoicing that we 

 have passed the rough road, the dusty and beaten 

 high way the weary hill, which intercepted our 

 scene of enjoyment, and then gaze with admiration 

 on the extended prospect, and smiling landscape before 

 us or quietly sitting down for a while, consider 

 what we may yet gain and what new pleasure awaits, 

 so in the present success and future prospects of this 

 Society, we must congratulate ourselves, on what has 

 been done and be stimulated to effect still more. 

 Engaged with a sympathetic and fraternal feeling in 

 the same studies, though in different departments, 

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