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PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS TO THE 
LINCOLNSHIRE NATURALISTS’ UNION. | 
Rev, CANON W.-W. FOWLER, M.A., F.L.S., F.E.S. 
Ir is usual to estimate the success of any society or union of 
members, and it must be allowed that, although often misleading, 
the growth or decrease of the number of members affords a roug 
which our members have taken part. We ought, therefore, ro Con- 
gratulate Miss Florence Woolward, of Belton, on the conclusion of 
€r great work on the orchids of the genus Aasdevallia, a group 
found only in Central and South America, chiefly in mountainous 
regions and often at a great elevation. The book is especially 
Th tl ugh 
Most enjoyable, are rather pleasant meetings than opportunities for 
taining great results. ‘This, I take it, is as it should The 
object of a Union like ours is to interest as large a number of people 
May 1897. 
