PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS 
TO THE 
LINCOLNSHIRE NATURALISTS’ UNION, 1911, 
BY 
W. WALLACE, M.B., Ch.B., Grimsby. 
In rising to address you on this occasion, I must first express 
to you my thanks for having placed me in such an honourable 
position as President of the Lincolnshire Naturalists’ Union. 
I will simply say I am proud of it. 
Though not a native of the county, I am deeply interested 
in its Natural History ; and I was delighted on coming to reside 
in it to find such a number of enthusiastic workers. 
On joining the Union, I was immediately struck with the 
Systematic manner in which all the branches of study were 
pursued, and I at once resolved to confine my attention to my 
favourite order of insects—the Coleopteva—on which I shall 
address you to-day. 
I am delighted to see our Union prospering, and I shall 
always do my best for it. 
The study of nature is such a vast subject that, though we 
are charmed with all its beauties and wonders, each of us has 
become a specialist, more or less, and confines his attention 
to one or but few branches. Yet all these branches are so 
intimately related that, if we wish to make a complete study of 
one, we must have some knowledge of the others. Here is the 
great advantage we have as a Union: we study this County 
thoroughly, and, by our published Transactions, each of us 
benefits in the pursuit of his own chosen branch. 
