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However, this is perhaps the duty of the president for the 

 year; and conscious as I am of my serious faiHngs in this 

 respect, I can only hope that in the future the Society may be 

 more fortunate in its selection, and that some trial may be 

 made in this direction. 



To conclude, I wish to tender my most grateful thanks for 

 the assistance I have received in the carrying out of our 

 programme. First to our excellent secretary for his careful 

 and far-seeing arrangements ; secondly, to the botanists and 

 others who have supplied me with notes of plants seen, etc., 

 which I am unable to supply myself with ; and, lastly, to 

 the anonymous contributor to the " Daily Journal," whose 

 charming articles have proved a mine of wealth to replenish 

 my memory in preparing this sketch of the year's doings. 



