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our acknowledgments are most justly clue, and arc hereby grate- 

 fully tendered. The excursions were interesting, and were not 

 unproductive as to their results. The goodly number of mem- 

 bers present at the Evening Meetings, those pleasant reunions, 

 is cause for general gi'atulation. While the papers which were 

 read, the remarks made, and the information given, together 

 with the specimens and objects exhibited, were quite in keeping 

 with the objects contemplated. 



It 18 pleasant to note all plants, from the rush to the spreading cedar, 

 To watch the workings of instinct, that grosser reason of brutes, 

 To trace the consummate skill, that hath modelled the anatomy of insects, 

 To read the antique history of tlie earth, stamped upon those medals in 



the rocks. 

 It is an admirable lore, to learn the cause in the change, 

 To study the chemistry of Nature, her grand, but simple secrets. 

 To search out all her wonders, to track the resources of her skill, 

 To note her kind compensation, her unobtrusive excellence. 

 In all, it is wise happiness to see the well-ordained laws of Jehovah, 

 The harmony that filleth all his mind, the justice that tempereth his 



bounty, 

 The wonderful all prevalent analogy that testifieth one Creator, 

 The broad arrow of the Great King, carved on all the stores of his arsenal. 



