12 FOUNDATION AND OBJECTS 



' Da geht ein Naturforscher '* . . . there was a 

 hustling and a justling, a knocking over of chairs 

 and tables, and a scrambling for hats, as everyone 

 hurried to the door to see what the animal was like, 

 and if it walked on two legs or four on its way up 

 the Jungfernstieg/ 



The German society at Hamburg transacted a 

 great part of its work in sections, of which there 

 was one for each of the following subjects or 

 groups of subjects : mineralogy ; botany ; zoology, 

 zootomy, anatomy, and physiology ; practical medi- 

 cine ; physics and chemistry ; pharmacy. For 

 the rest, there were of course general meetings, 

 and there were visits to various institutions, and 

 excursions in plenty. One British representative 

 writes feelingly of a rough crossing to Heligoland, 

 and the lack of scientific interest which he found in 

 the island. 



Our debt to the German model is sufficiently 

 demonstrated by these examples. The German 

 Association now has its headquarters at Leipzig. 

 Its title is the Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher 

 und Arzte. In the light of recent discussion upon 

 the organisation of our own sections, it is of some 

 interest to observe that the German association is 

 divided into a large but varying number, arranged 

 under a Naturwissenschaftliche and a Medizinische 

 Hauptgruppe. 



BREWSTER AND THE YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL 

 SOCIETY : PHILLIPS AND HARCOURT 



There is no reason to doubt (though doubt has 

 been expressed) that Brewster should be regarded 



