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body all who are willing to work hand in hand, to strengthen, 
to animate each individual with the confidence and powder 
derived from association of numbers, and the sympathy 
of fellow-labourers in one extended Scheme.” I need not 
quote more, for the above sufficiently explains the aim of 
the promoters. 
The Chairman — Rev. Canon Guthrie — “ then gave an 
animated exposition of the manifest advantages to be 
derived from such an association, which received the 
cordial assent and concurrence of all the members 
present.” 
The Rules proposed, sixteen in number, were then dis- 
cussed one by one ; and it was moved by Mr. J. W. Morris, 
seconded by Mr. Augustin Prichard, and unanimously 
resolved “ that the Rules and Regulations now read be 
adopted as those of the Bristol Naturalists’ Society.” 
The following officers were then appointed, on the pro- 
posal of the Rev. William James, seconded by Dr. Bed- 
doe : President, Mr. William Sanders ; Vice-Presidents, 
Rev. Canon Guthrie and Dr. Alfred Day ; Hon. Treasurer, 
Mr. William Walter Stoddart ; Hon. Secretary, Herr Adolph 
Leipner. It is pleasant to note the cordiality with which 
the infant Society was welcomed by its elder brother, the 
Philosophical Institution, the Committee of which, in 
reply to an application, passed the following resolution ; 
“ That this Committee has heard with real pleasure of the 
formation of the said Society for the promotion of the 
study of Natural History, and that the rooms of the Insti- 
tution be placed at its disposal, during pleasure, under the 
direction of the Lecture Committee ” ; and in sending 
this decision the Hon. Sec. of the Institution, Dr. Alfred 
Day, wrote that “ the term ‘ during pleasure ’ and the 
limitation conveyed in the last sentence, are merely 
adopted for the purpose of preventing any such applica- 
tion of the permission as would conflict with the neces- 
