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and gentle natures? Everyone who would could help in the 
cultivation of natural science, and could contribute results of 
value, whether for the sake of mental work or as an addition to 
knowledge. Let them therefore become more fully acquainted 
with those following the same studies; let them compare their 
successes and their deficiencies, and with cordial co-operation and 
generous help let them go forward to even greater success for the 
Society in the future. 
The City and the Society. 
"Mr. H. Bolton said it was most fitting that the Natural History 
Society should celebrate its jubilee within those walls, because the 
Bristol Museum was largely concerned with the encouragement 
of natural history, and other cognate studies, and also represented 
the labours of an older institution, whose members worked upon 
broad lines which included natural history within their scope. 
This, the natural history side of the Museum, came into being as 
the result of the efforts of the old Literary and Philosophical 
Institution, and in seven years it would have completed, not fifty 
years of growth, but one hundred. The connection between 
the Museum and the Society ought to be a close one. Both were 
concerned with a developing love for, and a study of, Nature. 
Here they conserved the work of the older naturalists, and, as far 
as might be, added to the collections in the hope that the series 
as a whole would prove stimulative of outdoor study, and a love 
of animal and plant life. It was but fitting, he thought, on an 
occasion like that, that they should freely acknowledge their in- 
debtedness to members of the Society. Former presidents, such as 
Professors Sollas, White, C. Lloyd Morgan, and Rudge, had added 
to or benefited the collections in some way, whilst the list of gifts 
from members would be a long one if it could be placed before them. 
Recent years had witnessed a revival of interest in the Museum, 
and this revival had been largely helped by the labour and gifts of 
Messrs. Charbonnier, Griffiths, Bartlett, Hudd, and Reynolds, and 
they all knew, as he knew, how much the Museum and the public 
had profited by the unselfish labour and botanical skill of their Presi- 
dent, to whom they owed, year by year, the upkeep and perennial 
freshness of the flowering plants of the month. To their Lady 
President they also owed the orderly arrangement of several of 
the large herbaria in the Museum, whilst her delightful optimism 
and energy reacted upon the staff with good results to them all. 
But of the general body of members they did not see as much as 
they would wish, and he doubted if they were fully alive to the 
opportunities of assistance in their studies which were furnished 
by the collections. Could not this be remedied? The flowers 
of the month were a useful guide to the botanist, the mollusca, and 
insect series equally helped the conchologist and entomologist, 
whilst the geologist would find much to direct his studies in the 
cases of the upper room, and other sections would, he believed, 
prove equally stimulating, and he could only trust that the demon- 
