1907-1908.; 



M'Kean, A. Milligan, and W. J. Fennell took part and the 

 proceedings terminated with a well-earned vote of thanks to Mrs. 

 Hobson. 



Zoological Section. 



"an elementary outline of zoology." 



The first meeting of the Zoological Section was held in the 

 Museum, College Square North, on Wednesday evening, 29th 

 November — Mr. Robert Welch, M.R.I. A., in the chair. The 

 Chairman called upon Mr. Nevin H. Foster, M.B.O.U., the 

 Vice-President, to deliver his address on " An Elementary Outline 

 of Zoology." 



Mr. Foster said that in connection with the Club two new 

 sections devoted to Archaeology and Zoology had been inaugurated 

 this year, and that it was hoped this step would tend to draw more 

 closely together the members who were interested in these studies. 

 Zoology — the science of animal life — dealt with a vast multitude of 

 organisms differing widely in structure and habit, and, while he did 

 not think that in this science much good would be accomplished 

 by means of sectional meetings, yet he considered that at the 

 beginning of the session a paper dealing with its outlines might 

 render service in encouraging members to take up some of the 

 branches of this fascinating science. The Club had several 

 members actively pursuing research in some of our faunal groups, 

 but many branches were quite neglected, and, whilst there was 

 plenty of room for more workers in those groups to which 

 attention is being paid, there was also almost if not altogether 

 virgin ground for new recruits. After alluding to the unity of 

 original structure in all living organisms — vegetable and animal — 

 Mr. Foster proceeded to define the different branches into which 

 zoological study might be directed, and said that it was with the 

 departments of classification and distribution that Field Club 



