I4o YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS UNION. 



shall have to be content to be with you when I can, if not when 

 I would, and to wish you success, when I am unable to be a 

 sharer in it. From past experience of your kind consideration, 

 my hope is, that you will overlook my imperfections, and 

 pardon my seeming- neglect, taking- the will for the deed, and 

 g-iving- me credit for g-ood intention, when performance is 

 impossible ; nay, I know you will, and for this, as for all past 

 kindnesses, I sincerely and heartily thank you, hoping that all 

 our future intercourse may be as pleasant and enjoyable as that 

 of the past, and that the results of it may be as useful and 

 profitable. On many subjects there is still much to be learned, 

 but every addition to our present knowledge is of value, as 

 helping to throw light on the task we have set ourselves, 

 namely, the investigation of the natural history of Yorkshire. 



