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of Lancashire and Cheshire who would be sufficiently 

 interested in at least some of our meetings — no one need 

 pretend to be equally interested in all — to receive 

 intellectual pleasure and stimulus if they only knew of 

 the existence and work of our Society. The terms of 

 membership ought to be made as easy as the Council can 

 devise, the proceedings at our meetings ought to be made 

 as instructive and interesting as Science knows how, and 

 then every man and woman who studies, or wishes -to 

 study, or cares about advancing the study of, any branch 

 of Natural Science — including what is called " Nature- 

 Study " — ought to join our ranks and take part in our 

 work. It lies with our present members to enlarge our 

 bounds and to draw others within the fold. I appeal 

 with confidence to you all to bring your friends to the 

 meetings, and, if they are interested, to propose them as 

 members, and to make the Society and its work known 

 in any way that presents itself. 



Finally, I appeal for more young members. All 

 biologists are young in spirit. The study of nature keeps 

 them young, or, if they have only taken to it late in life, 

 it makes them young again. When I think of the young 

 men I have known of mature age — such as the late Dr. 

 David Robertson, " the naturalist of Cumbrae," who came 

 dredging with some of us on the West Coast of Scotland 

 in his 86th year, and was as keen and useful as the 

 youngest and best of us — I am sorry for the prematurely 

 aged persons of few years, but many cares, who have no 

 interests beyond their business and, it may be, a football 

 match or the golf links. A " hobby " is the saving of 

 many both in their physical and their mental health, and 

 no hobby is so conducive to health, sanity and happiness 

 as devotion to some branch of Natural Science. 



The advantage of biology as a science for 



