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tribute to the welfare and growth of this Society. This 



can do, and ou^t 



any 



inal. Some of our members have already given animating 

 examples to the rest of us. The public will in time 

 second our efforts, and regard us with favor as those who 

 are 'working for the public benefit, and seeking to raise 

 yet higher the literary reputation, already eminent, of our 



fair city. 



As I have congratulated you, therefore, gentlemen, 



on the bright prospects of our Society, permit me to com- 

 mend those prospects and all its future interests to your 

 untiring attention, to your love of good learning, to your 

 love of country. Nor would you excuse me — 1 could 

 not excuse myself— were I not reverently to commend 

 them to yet higher regards, to the blessing of Him, the 

 Eternal Author of Nature, and Source of being, . 



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" Who fosters with a parent's care 



The tribes of earth, and sea, and air. 



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APPENDIX. 



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Since the opening of the Society's Hall, a new spirit 

 has been excited. Semi-monthly meetings, well attend- 

 ed, have succeeded to those interviews, at which a few 

 zealous members only, could be collected, once a month. 



Writt 



Natural 



objects previously presented to the Cabinet, or both, have 

 been liberally offered at each meeting ; and the initiation 

 of sixty-two members since our first meeting in the Hall, 

 is the best evidence that the mterest in Natural History is 

 becoming deep and extensive. 



Valuable additions have been made to each department 



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