xlii President's Address for the year 1875. 



apart from utilitarian considerations. Just as we desire 

 pictures, statues, ornaments properly so called, just as we 

 cultivate music and flowers for purposes of combined 

 intellectual and sensual pleasure, so the modern mind 

 having awakened to an appetite for every kind of natural 

 knowledge, science must therefore be cultivated to minister 

 to a real mental want, to the hunger . and thirst for the 

 knowable. 



