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great deal of modern history and geography to be gleaned 
from it. 
Most persons have a hobby of some kind, and it 
would be well if everyone should have some pursuit 
apart from his business as a relief and relaxation. Hobbies 
are apparently the outcome of a development of the 
higher faculties. They serve to educate, to bring into 
play habits of observation, and to make men better and 
nobler as they appreciate the world and its beauties. 
The man who thinks of the earth only as a place of sin 
and misery is to be pitied. Such a person in condemning 
the work, blames its mighty architect. With such a 
disposition he becomes soured and peevish, a burden to 
himself and all around him. The man with a hobby on 
the contrary, is genial, kind and good tempered, finding 
pleasure everywhere. His excursions have an obje6l 
and are therefore always agreeable, even when he has to 
endure fatigue and privation. 
4. — " HEALTH IN THE TROPICS." 
Delivered on Tuesday, August 14th, by Dr. J. E. A. Ferguson, 
Government Medical Service. 
The lecturer began by reminding his audience of the im- 
portance of studying and conforming to therulesof tropical 
hygiene, which were especially important to Europeans 
who were not naturally adapted to the climate. He then 
gave a rapid sketch of the various functions of the body 
in health, laying especial stress on that which regulates 
the heat of the body under the varying conditions of the 
atmosphere. He pointed out the adaptation of the 
European to a cold, and the Ne f ro to a hot climate, and 
