“That while this Association is deeply sensible of the advantages which must accrue to the cause of science, from the production to which they have just adverted⁠—no less than from the unwearied researches of Samuel Pickwick, Esq. , G.C.M.P.C. , in Hornsey, Highgate, Brixton, and Camberwell⁠—they cannot but entertain a lively sense of the inestimable benefits which must inevitably result from carrying the speculations of that learned man into a wider field, from extending his travels, and, consequently, enlarging his sphere of observation, to the advancement of knowledge, and the diffusion of learning.