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maintain it, and a wise use of means will, I believe, tend mucli 
to the advance of the journal; and while our object should be to 
be careful not to be losers in a monetary point of view, we should 
exclude any idea or effort at any possible advantage or increase 
in that direction. 
I should be very glad if we could steadily publish in a clear 
and accurate form delineations of such objects and forms as the 
Polyzoa of our colony, together with figures of Conferva ?, whenever 
we can manage to collect and determine them, as far as their 
generic characters are concerned; and when this has been done, 
then they will be able to be published in a volume by some one 
who will be able to go into further details, as specific characters, 
&c. 
To what does all this point 1 That men who work must needs 
inform their eyes and hands. They should endeavour, whenever 
they have acquired the knowledge of a new object, to delineate 
the same for their own satisfaction, if not for the information of 
others. A worker who, for the first time, has seen a young 
oyster alive under the microscope or viewed the circulation of 
protoplasm in the cells of a plant, should at once set about to 
express what he has seen by putting it on paper by a sketch. 
Never mind, even if he cannot draw, let him try ; the delineation 
of flat or plane objects should soon become an easy matter to him, 
and a rough note book thus produced will soon be looked on by 
him as one does on an old friend. 
On looking over the various matters I have alluded to in our 
society there is one which I must take notice of more particularly, 
it is the Juvenile Exhibition, towards which we, as a Society, 
have contributed our quota of good wishes in offering a couple of 
prizes to the best collections of local specimens properly prepared 
for the microscope. I trust there will be a good competition for 
the same, and as there are some of our members who are of 
eligible age to enter the contest, I hope they will not allow the 
prizes to be carried off without a proper contention for the 
same. 
You are all aware, I have no doubt, that next year the 
Melbourne International Exhibition will engage our attention, 
and that from this society delegates will appear. Besides any 
