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nounced co-operative sympathy of our people must be 

 bestowed on it. It is not too much to ask or to expect 

 that there will be a large local membership, or that this 

 will be largely represented at the regular meetings, to 

 encourage and stimulate the working members to make 

 their best efforts. Such measure of pecuniary and moral 

 support is surely due from those who are to share so 

 largely the behoof of its best success. 



For beyond the intellectual benefits to accrue from in- 

 vestigations and discussions to the working members of 

 the Institute and those who form its regular audiences, its 

 further objects — "the establishing and maintaining a 

 museum, a library and a collection of works of art," — 

 must excite the interest and challenge the appreciation 

 and endorsement of every thoughtful citizen. 



A museum, that shall gather and garner all obtainable 

 specimens of the natural history of this region, will be a 

 place of growing attractiveness, and of increasing im- 

 portance as an educating agency. 



Carlyle wrote of "the winged and wingless neighbors" 

 that were continually meeting him, and much regretted 

 that he did not better know them. All who desire to do 

 so, can make the familiar acquaintance of our "winged 

 and wingless neighbors," through their beautiful repre- 

 sentatives collected and collecting in our museum . Many 

 other curious and interesting objects, already numbering 

 over three thousand, are taking their places there ; and 

 their number and value shall increase now and in the 

 future, according to the enthusiasm and generosity of 

 those, by whose contributions this part of our Institute 

 must grow. 



The library and art collection contemplated, if touched, 

 were a theme for a whole address. These, with the 

 museum, are the permanent elements of the Institute 

 and point impressively, through a promising present, to 

 a future of ever unfolding importance. Every rare and 



