its brightness, the great square of Pegasus, high in the heavens, 

 the large cross of Cygnus, the soft blue Capells, and the Red 

 Aldebaran, the Great Bear, Canopus, the striking stars of Gemini 

 the twins, and the magnificent constellation of Orion, all seem to 

 ■vie with one another in adding a charm to one of the most restful 

 visions ever to be seen. Or turn to a different kind of beauty, the 

 wing of a butterfly, or the plumage of a bird, or the beautiful blue 

 of a little speedwell in flower in June, how perfect each one is in 

 itself, how it can be studied and studied, first by the naked eye, 

 ihen by the microscope, and yet no boundary is reached so that we 

 can say •* this is worked out." The beauties of nature are an 

 incessant source of pleasure to those who will look for them. Do 

 you often walk out of an evening ? Make yourself familiar with 

 the stars and constellations, and planets, and the evening will have 

 an ever increasing interest. Are you shut up in a town, do some 

 work with the microscope. I can promise you in it an unfailing 

 source of interest. Do you get into the country occasionally ? — 

 learn something about the birds, or the insects, or the shells, or 

 ferns, or mosses, or lichens, and your life will have a steadily 

 increasing interest and continual pleasures. 



For another temperament, the waves rushing mountains higb, 

 breaking in white foam, tossed by the gale in the moonlight, have 

 a greater fascination, but all minds can find pleasure in some 

 branch of nature's world if they will only try. Let us then, each 

 iind all of us, do all we can to spread the love of nature. 



A vote of thanks was given for the paper, and the Secretary then 

 read the report of the previous year. The number of members at 

 present was ninety, and the Balance Sheet showed a sum of 

 &1 lis. 8d. in the Treasurer's hands. 



Dr. Eastes was re-elected President. 



Mr. Walton also as Vice-President. 



The following Members were elected on the Committee : — Dr. 

 Knaggs, Rev. W. Hall, Messrs. J. Knight, T. Hambridge, S. Hills, 

 •and B. Sawyer. 



The Secretary was re-elected, and Mr. S. Hills was chosen as 

 Assistant Secretary and Librarian. 



It was proposed by Mr. F. Gell, and carried, that there should be 

 a conversazione at as early a date as possible, 



