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our new institution, their wish shall be attended to as soon 

 as our subscription list will bear the extra expense. In this 

 way we might soon hope to get up the name of the proposed 

 Society by the publication of a volume of Transactions, after 

 which its course would be smooth and simple. At some 

 future period indeed the geologists, zoologists, and botan- 

 ists might find that the interests of their respective pursuits 

 would be better attended to in separate institutions, and de- 

 clare their independence of the first Society of Naturalists 

 ever formed in India, just for the reasons we now quit the 

 Asiatic and other Societies in Calcutta. Instead of regard- 

 ing such movements or dissentions with jealousy or opposi- 

 tion, they are always to be hailed as favourable signs of 

 the progress of knowledge, and of the advancement of 

 Society to that elevated state of civilization, in which the 

 human mind is brought to bear independently on distinct 

 objects of research. 



