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BOTANICAL TRANSACTIOiNS 



OF THF, 



YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION. 



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VOL. IV. 



THE STUDY OF MOSSES. 



ROBERT BR/VITI-n\AITE, M.D,, F.L.S., 



PRESIDKNT OF THE YORKSHIRE NaTURALISTS' UNroN ; 



HRIN'G THF 



PHE-SiDF-XTIAL AdDRE.SS DELIVERED AT THE AnNL'AL MEETING OF THE 



YoKKSiriRR Natlirat.ists' Union, Vokk, SOtii Octoiier, 189.->. 



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In rising to address you, let me first thank you for the 

 honour you have done me in electing me your President for the 

 year, and the opportunity it has afforded me of meeting so many 

 of my native county who have devoted some of their leisure to 

 the pursuit of natural history. 



I note by your card that you wisely arrange your work into 

 sections or departments, each occupying a definite field of 

 investigation, for I dare say some of us can look back to the 

 time, years ago, when we thought we could tackle all creation ; 

 we collected plants, and beetles, and butterflies, and shells, and 

 Sea-weeds, until our homes assumed the condition of rnuseums 



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