THE PHYTOLOGIST. 



1859. 



Annual Address to the Contributors, Correspondents, and 

 Readers of the Phytologist. 



The Publisher and Editor, in the first place, tender their grate- 

 ful thanks to the contributors, who have, during the past year, 

 liberally filled our pages with the varied and interesting articles 

 on Botany in general, and on British Botany in particular, now 

 circulated and circulating among the select few who seek for in- 

 formation on such topics. 



To our Anonymous Correspondents we are under great obliga- 

 tions ; and all the recompense we can offer these is, that we are 

 sensible of their kindness, and hereby thankfully acknowledge 

 that their brief notes form the most interesting feature of our 

 periodical. All the short articles, and some communications of 

 considerable length, are from contributors who do not court pub- 

 licity, who '^ do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame ;" who 

 write not for praise nor reward, but out of pure good- nature, 

 from a disinterested desire of telling others what is pleasing and 

 instructive to themselves. These modest correspondents are 

 known either to the Publisher or to the Editor. 



The Subscribers and the Readers are hereby thanked for their 

 approbation, goodwill, and general support ; and we look forward 

 hopefully to a time when those who are here the objects of our 

 good wishes and seasonable gratulations will, as heretofore, con- 

 tinue to increase and multiply till the ' Phytologist' and British 

 Botany becomes as " familiar in the mouth as household words." 

 This will not be in our day : and it is rather a success to be 

 hoped for than expected. 



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