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importance. We all know that many hands make quick 
work ; so work, by many heads, properly trained (as. we may 
suppose those hands must have been), with certainty, advances, 
not in any given direction which we may think to indicate, 
but according to existing circumstances and the men who 
come to the front. I therefore take this occasion of 
endeavouring to press upon the members the necessity 
which exists, not only for training, but that our aim should 
be to draw in as many workers, or men minded to become 
such, as we can induce to join our ranks, and every man who 
finds his place in the society, if lie be a worker, will certainly 
bring out something fitted for the common weal. It is a 
popular and a common error to suppose that any man or 
any society has at once made its mark ; it has been always 
done by patient and steady endeavours, and the more the 
patience exhibited the greater and the more lasting has that 
work been. I may also here note, that if any method or 
plan can be adopted by us, or by some of our members, by 
which we can enlarge our training, we certainly should try 
and carry it out, but it should be well considered and then 
fully carried out. I believe there has been among us a 
proposal to carry out a field-day, or a day of excursion, 
wherein we may obtain materials for stud}'-, and whereby 
we may become more familiar with modes of obtaining such 
objects as may conduce to our work. I am inclined to think 
we may be able to compass this if we take advantage of 
those occasions which are public holidays, wherein we may 
be able to muster more to our advantage. Such excursions 
may, perhaps, induce some to join us who otherwise would 
not. I have no idea of converting our society into a natural 
histoiy club, but of obtaining materials for microscopic work 
and training; and if we are to enter upon some such plan, the 
sooner wo do so the better. I beg to remind the members 
that we ought to keep our Thursday eveningmeetings, as they 
are essential to the carrying out of the plans which we have 
lately proposed, for training for work, and I trust all^the 
