THE GEOLOGIST. 



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Botanist too in his department of Natural History both confers 

 and reaps advantages. The natural sciences are all mutually- 

 useful to each other; they are kindred branches of the one 

 great tree of knowledge. 



The practical benefits, to which we have made allusion, are set 

 forth in detail in another part of our columns ; they are many and 

 great, and are seen in the daily useful application of Geological 

 principles, in this and other countries. 



Such is the Science we now aspire to promote. We come for- 

 ward not arrogantly, as if we would dictate upon it, but with 

 diffidence, lest we should not be able to do justice to so important 

 a subject. We desire to elicit the results of the labours of 

 Geologists and make them known to the world at large. We wish 

 to make Geology — in these days of Mechanics' Institutes and 

 Public Lectures — an object of popular enquiry and study. Surely 

 we shall not fail through the lukewammess of its votaries. In 

 the name of Science we demand their co-operation. To them, to 

 the Chemist, Mineralogist, Zoologist, and Botanist, and to all who 

 desire to see Imowledge of science diffused, we say: 'Give us 

 'your right hand, not as Lord Viscount Privilege did to Peter 

 'Simple when he was a long \tay off* the title, (extending towards 

 'him just the tip of his forefinger) but give it as he would have 

 'done to the heir of the family; — we don't care for "the high 

 ' breeding ;" — let us have a brotherly greeting, and a hearty grip.' 



THE EDITOR. 



