too SCIENTIFIC SURVEY OF LEICESTER AND DISTRICT 
able to hold their own by the side of other large Societies in the kingdom ; 
why in fact there should not be a Geological, a Natural History, or other 
Society, affiliated to the old Parent Society, but each working in its own 
sphere.’ 
In his Presidential Address in 1912 Dr. Astley V. Clarke spoke of the 
Sections as the raison d’étre of the Society. 
Times have changed since 1877, and since 1912. It is still much to 
be wished that such small societies may continue to work each in its own 
sphere, but each ready to work together with others, so that there may be, 
in effect, a Leicester Association for the Study of Science. 
The writer is aware that the foregoing is an incomplete account of the 
study of science in Leicester. It gives no account of institutions which 
have among their work in other subjects given instruction in science—such 
as the Mechanics’ Institutes from 1834 to about 1860, Working Men’s 
College (now Vaughan College), Adult Schools, University Extension 
Lectures, and other bodies—but it is hoped that it gives a correct account 
of the most permanent and important streams of science study other than 
that in modern colleges and modernised schools. 
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