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them, I can assure you, have turned out very great successes in 

 the scientific line which they have taken up. One of them has 

 been appointed assistant curator of our museum, and he is doing 

 wonderfully good work there. In that way you will add to your 

 membership very much, and you will never regret taking an interest 

 in working-men with a scientific turn of mind. 



May I suggest, regarding the future working of your society, 

 that you take up the work of the preservation of your Flora and 

 Fauna. Take, for instance only, the birds we have lost and are 

 in danger of losing — twenty different species of our British birds ! 

 We shall lose more if we do not preserve them. Please take 

 up the preservation of birds and mammals, also of the rarer 

 plants. If possible, get protection orders in your district pro- 

 tecting the birds and not allowing them to be exterminated. 

 I have to thank you very much for the very kind invitation 

 extended to me personally, as well as to co-representatives of our 

 Club. I hope that your Club will flourish fifty years more, and 

 fifty times fifty. 



Dr. George Neilson, President of the Royal Philosophical 

 Society of Glasgow, said:— I have great pleasure, Mr. Chairman, 

 ladies and gentlemen, in coming here as representative of the 

 Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow to convey its greetings to 

 your Society and its veteran and pious fathers who are represented 

 on the Bench this day, and to say how much we congratulate you 

 upon the work you have done, and how cordially we hope that in 

 the future your distinguished record will be surpassed. The 

 Philosophical Society of Glasgow has been like yours in following 

 certain main lines from the beginning. In our Society more than 

 too years ago the foundation was very largely in Natural Science, 

 and its work has remained and still to a considerable extent 

 remains on those lines. Latterly the Society has broadened, and 

 History as well as Science is having an important place in its 

 programme. In connection with our Society, and as I am the 



