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for the expenses or outfits of travellers, to whom little encouragement is held out, to risk their health and lives in unexplored regions. In short little effected by the Society, owing simply to its want of funds, to promote the science of geography: and this, although we see amongst its members, names of the most eminent in literary and scientific acquirements, and others notorious for wealth, who never open their pockets at the call of science.

We have too, Geological societies, who never send out a geologist, and why? Botanical societies, who take but never give, & thrive: Spider societies, who invest their funds in the equipment of beetle hunters, & thrive. Zoological societies, who spend their thousands in birds and beasts, take their shillings, and thrive.

Thus, the birds of the air, the beasts of the field, the fishes of the sea, the insects which creep and reptiles which crawl, have