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reward. It yields, as you well know, much intellectual, 

 as well as pleasing physical enjoyment. Members of the 

 Club are fully conscious of the pleasure and profit they 

 derive from its study, and are also conscious of the 

 kindly intercourse and warm friendships that have been 

 engendered at the field and social meetings of the Club. 

 However much we may individually differ on many of 

 the themes and problems of life, here we are at one, 

 with a stiong love for all that pertains to the natural 

 history of our own lovely district of country. 



To people of kindred tastes throughout the land — let 

 me say throughout the universe — the study of natural 

 history never fails to yield such pleasure and gratifi- 

 cation as I refer to, hence the establishment of such 

 Clubs as this. 



To know botany, ornithology, or entomology scientifically, 

 indicates culture of a high order ; and to proficients in 

 the study of these subjects the world is much indebted, 

 both for delightful reading and for the correctness of the 

 information which they lay before it. We can imagine 

 the "glory and the joy," the wordless pleasure, experienced 

 from time to time by skilled observers and writers when 

 pursuing their work connected with any of the subjects 

 named, either out-of-doors or in the study. Then, along 

 with fully knowing the scientific elements of their 

 respective studies, and finding pleasure therein, they 

 enjoy in a more elevated degree what may be called 

 the higher parts of their researches, the spirit and the 

 beauty of whatever they carefully observe and study, 

 and this even apart from the scientific element. It is 

 pleasant, too, to know that a very large portion of the 

 world's inhabitants, possessing little or no scientific 

 knowledge of natural history subjects, but loving the 

 old earth on which they live, thoroughly enjoy many 

 of the higher elements of beauty, the food for thought, 

 which a little study of such subjects naturally reveals 

 to them. 



