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help to bind together diverging inquiries carried on in other 
places, it is for you to keep free from the rust of disuse the 
simpler way of asking questions of Nature, without the com- 
plicated machinery which others use; the simpler way, which 
often brings answers of no little moment in their right place; 
the simpler way, which others may be apt to overlook. 
One little bit of advice, perhaps, I may be so bold as to offer 
you ; if it is needless you will forgive me. Your main work is 
to preserve and keep intact from the destructive influences which 
are withering him, the good old naturalist of old, and so to serve 
as an integrator of biologic studies. To carry on this work 
efficiently, you must, so far as you can, keep yourselves in touch 
with the modern developments of our science. Should your 
ranks be joined by an academic neophyte, trained exclusively in 
the newest morphologic school, accustomed to view an animal 
form only through the long vista of a lengthy ribbon of gorgeously 
‘stained microtome-cut sections of exquisite thinness, and should 
you find that in the field, with only homely objects of observa- 
tion before him, he is, literally speaking, ‘all abroad,’ do not 
thereby be tempted to look down on his attainments and his 
methods. Seek rather to bring his results into line with those 
of your simpler ways. So far as you can, work the one in the 
other. And in like manner with the gains and the manners of 
other schools of inquiry. Strive so far as you can, to fit the 
results of these various methods into those of your own more 
straightforward ways. Doing so, you will enlarge the. power 
of the naturalist without spoiling his character, and will increase 
manifold your office of integration. 
Such advice, however, I feel sure is needless. One sure token 
of this is that you have entrusted to me, an academic person, 
a man moving in a narrow groove, with no claim whatever to 
the grand old name of naturalist, the honourable duty of 
addressing you on this occasion as your President. 
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ovina sieiodomians 
Autumnal Immigration of the Goldcrest observed in 
Holderness.—The Golden-crested Wren (Rerun requis) the smallest 
of British, and indeed pean, bi appea e 
making its departure to and arrival from No sn cae in central 
Holderness ast October, on their return migratio ds were seen 
in the hedgerows and bushes near the cliff at props — Mappleton 
near Hornsea. In the latter part of April this year a great departure in 
siuilne hen nu was made fro m Aldborough, a few miles further south, 
—- 1899. 
