THE GEOLOGIST. 
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Botajiist too in his department of Natural History both confers 
and reaps advantages. The natui'al 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 eUcit 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 lukewannness 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 knowledge of science diffused, we say: 'Give us 
'your right hand, not as Lord Viscount Privilege did to Peter 
'Simple when he was a long isay 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 famUy; — we don't care for "the high 
'breeding;" — let us have a brotherly greeting, and a hearty grip.' 
THE EDrrOR. 
