9 6 Annals of the Philosophical Club 



holder in a crowded train is not a tempting termination to 

 a pleasant dinner. The meetings also of the Royal Society 

 are now held in the afternoon, so that at their close Fellows, 

 who have attended them, are more apt to go home. The 

 strain of life also, if I may trust my own experiences, has 

 become greater since the middle of the last century, and 

 the interests of those who work in the fields of science have 

 "been to some extent narrowed, as remarked in the Preface, 

 by increasing specialization. But the Philosophical Club, 

 as I trust these Annals will prove, did good service in the 

 furtherance of science. 



