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conscience, bidding men to do justice and love mercy, and to 
think of God not as an implacable avenger, but as the author 
of Peace and lover of concord, who asks our help in the well 
ordering of this small corner of His wondrous universe, and 
who would have us know that all our doings without loving 
kindness are worth nothing. 
DISCUSSION. 
As might be expected, an audience consisting largely of 
ladies, and a fair sprinkling of clergy, received the address 
in different ways. One member even went so far as to propose 
that the President be asked to write another address! A 
President’s address, however, whether we agree with it or 
not (and few addresses can be found in which there is not 
some point of disagreement) is, by courtesy, not a subject for 
discussion, and should be printed as given, especially when 
it is made quite clear in the volume that the authors alone 
are responsible for the opinions expressed in their communi- 
cations. Eventually this was agreed to by a large majority 
of the delegates. 
OTHER PAPERS. 
The other papers given before the Congress were :—‘ Some 
Remarkable Resemblances of Inorganic Formations to 
Organic,’ in which Mr. G. Abbott dealt with limestone con- 
cretions, etc.; ‘Extinct Animals,’ by Mr. HH Ro) Kenape 
‘Prehistoric Man,’ by Dr. Keeble ; ‘Young Animals,’ by 
Dr. Chalmers Mitchell ; ‘ Coinages and Mints of South Eastern 
England,’ by Mr. A. Archibald; ‘Some Rare British Birds,’ 
by Miss E. L. Turner ; ‘ The Discovery of Oxygen in the Stars,’ 
by Professor H. N. Turner ; and ‘ The Educational Importance 
of the Kinema,’ by Dr. W. Martin. All were well illustrated, 
the last lecture, given at a ‘ Picture Palace,’ being especially 
striking. Papers dealing with definite problems in connection 
with the natural history, geology and archeology of the area 
covered by the Union were not quite as plentiful as they might 
have been. The popular lectures of course are valuable and 
desirable, but they do not carry out what should be, and no 
doubt is, the main object of the South Eastern Union, namely 
the scientific investigation of its area. 
THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 
One delegate suggested that a resolution should be ‘sent 
to the Government in reference to the closing of the British 
Museum. Sir Henry Howorth, who was called upon, said that 
as a Trustee of the British Museum of many years’ standing, 
he had made a desperate fight, together with his colleagues, to 
have the Museum left open. The fact was that the whole 
thing was perfectly illegal. There was a Charter in which it 
‘was specially provided by Act of Parliament that the Museum 
should never be closed at all, and many things had been given 
1916 July-1. 
