July 14, Fortcne indeed seems to be smiling upon the naturalists, botanists, art lovers and_bibliophiles, as represented by Mr. A. de C. Sowerby, who has been so eloquently pleading their cause. Tu one week they are presented with a monster fish from local waters—a truly splendid museum specimen, whatever its real name may be—and they hear of a definite scheme to acquire a combined museum, art gallery and library of a size worthy of the city. The Rotary Club is a worldwide organization" which has achieved several remarkable things, chiefly, we believe, through the initiative of individual clubs, and presumably, therefore, through the initiative of individuals in the separate clubs. If the Shanghai organization be a fair sample, the ways of Rotarians are as original as they are-to be admired. Staid and sober-minded men, who one would think treated everything in the world with the utmost seriousness of mien on all occasions, turn' out for an hour to be -just overgrown schoolboys singing riotous and absurd, but livening songs, to the beat of the
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