CXX PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
upon its full detail) will be sufficient to show, that not only does the 
geologist advance by means of those labours which may be con- 
sidered as more peculiarly his own, but that he also receives the aid 
of those cultivating various other branches of knowledge, and who 
find in his science objects of high interest, and not unfrequently 
obtain assistance for their own sciences, which otherwise would not 
occupy the advanced position they now hold. It may be that amid 
the communications made public, many may be defective, some 
even erroneous: in the advance of knowledge this always has been 
and will be: the approach to truth is often but the removal of 
error; but looking broadly at the state of our science, we find it oc- 
cupying minds of no ordinary kind, dispersed over various parts of 
the world, and we cannot but anticipate that great as its advance 
has been within a very limited number of years, it is destined to move 
forward still more rapidly. Let us trust that these anticipations may 
be realized, and that by a continuance of the kind feeling and hearty 
cooperation of its members which has marked its course hitherto, 
this Society may ever be found taking its right place among those 
which seek only the advance of truth. 
THE END. 
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