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vince, it is Impossible to deny. It is making us better known 

 at home and abroad, creating an interest in our natural resources, 

 active and inert, that is assisting their development, and paving 

 the way for the introduction of capital and enterprise. Let us 

 not, therefore, remit our exertions. Every member of the Insti- 

 tute can help the cause, — I may be pardoned in saying, can 

 do more for it than he has hitherto done. There is no royal 

 road to the acquirement of science. It demands to some extent 

 self-sacrifice on the part of all who may profess a desire to encour- 

 age it. Dry as may be some of its details, they lie at the 

 foundation of the wealth of nations, and its active votaries 

 are all the better for the stimulus of judicious approval. There 

 ought, gentlemen, to be a much larger attendance at our monthly 

 Ordinary Meetings. Those who take the trouble to prepare papers 

 for our instruction and amusement, and who find some eight or 

 en out of seventy members assembled to listen to them, cannot 

 feel much inclination to repeat the task, or recommend it to others. 

 Some of those papers have settled questions which concern our own 

 Province in Geologv and Zoology, in Botany and Meteorology, for 

 all time to come. But there is a large amount of talent in this 

 community, and amongst our own members, which has never yet 

 engaged itself in our behalf, and from which good may be yet 

 expected. We await with patience its development under favorable 

 auspices. Meanwhile, with Rev. Dr. Honeyman in our Geological 

 section, Dr. Bernard Gilpin, J. M. Jones and others in the Zoo- 

 logical ; Professor Dr. Lawson, Rev. Mr. Ball and Dr. Somcrs in 

 the Botanical ; Frederic Allison, the Dominion Meteorologist, and 

 others in cognate departments of Natural Science, we maintain and 

 uphold our standing very well with kindred Institutions elsewhere ; 

 and our publications, to which I have before alluded, show that 

 jthese gentlemen have not spared themselves in the service of the 

 Institute, for the promotion of the laudable objects in which it is 

 en paired. 



I feel assured that we are all glad to know that Dalhousie Col- 

 lege has come to the aid of Physical Science, and that there is 

 every prospect of its becoming a permanent feature in her course 



