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name generous enthusiasm we also might exclaim : " Ah ! tree 

 of my country /" 



Let us appreciate all our natural inheritance ! Let us perse- 

 vere to the full attainment of the objects which we contemplate. 

 We know that we are able, and we will succeed ; 



possunt quia posse videntur. 



Then by science and by industry we will contribute to the stores 

 of human happiness ; and we will take the lead, where to follow 

 in our footsteps will be honourable. 



Our ardent, able and efficient President, our learned and 

 indefatigable Lecturer and Counsellor, and our classical and 

 accomplished Corresponding Secretary* have, in turn, been cho- 

 sen to animate you, when convened at the former celebrations of 

 this festival. I was unmindful of myself, in my devotion to my 

 subject, or I should not have consented to follow in their path. 

 But, though I " attain not unto the first three," I account it a 

 distinction for which I tender you acknowledgments, that I have 

 been deemed worthy to be named and numbered with them in 

 our cherished cause. 



It is a benevolent, it is a noble cause. It exerts a salutary, 

 intellectual and moral influence. It has rich resources for the 

 head ; and it has rich resources for the heart. While it instructs 

 and edifies ; ennobles and exalts ; it awakens feelings of philan- 

 thropy. Its motto is : " GOOD WILL TO MAN." It inscribes 

 above its portal, what was written at the entrance of that me- 

 morable garden, into which the very Patriarch of Botany, Linne 

 himself allured his followers : " ENTER ; FOR A GOD is HERE." 



* The Society have listened, successively, to Dr. Hosack, Dr. MUchill. 

 and Mr. Carter. 



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