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successful study of the knowu bo "a continual feast of honey eel 

 sweets where no crude surfeit reigns," how much greater will 

 be his delight, his abiding satisfaction and profit, if he can, out 

 of the dark unknown, discover some new fact or facts which 

 may advance his science and augment the welfare of mankind ; 

 that of itself will be a sufficient reward for all his toils and 

 labour of love. 



Natural history studies whilst they educate the mind, refine 

 it, keeping it in association with the goodness, truth, and beauty, 

 everywhere to be seen in Nature, and will lead their devotee to 

 a due admiration and correct appreciation of the goodness and 

 power of the Author of this immeasurably wondrous universe. 



" For wonderful, indeed, are all His works, 

 Pleasant to know, and worthiest to be all 

 Had in remembrauce always with delight : 

 But what created mind can comprehend 

 Their number, or the wisdom infinite 

 That brought them forth, but hid their causes deep." 



It is not the science, falsely so called, of which St. Paul 

 speaks, that we labour to elucidate; it is no chimera of the 

 imagination that we strive to understand — it is the truth of 

 nature that we search after to bring to human cognizance, and 

 the truth in nature is the truth of God. I appeal to my fellow- 

 students in corroboration of the truth of the lines of the poet of 

 all time, who sings — 



"That this our life, exempt from public haunt, 

 Finds tongues in trees, books in the ranning brooks. 

 Sermons in stones, and good in everything." 



Lectuee 1. — On the Egg. By D. Embletok, M,D. 



But we must pass on to the subject of this evening's lecture^ 

 which is "The Egg." As the Eomans believed that at their 

 feasts it was of good augury to begin with an egg and to end 

 with an apple, to pass ah ovo ad malum^ so we also may not 

 inappropriately begin our short course of intellectual food with 

 an egg — the commencement of life, and end it with an apple or 

 some other form of vegetable life. 



