INAUGURAL ADDRESS 



ON 



THE SEED PRODUCTION OF 

 PINUS SYLVESTRIS. 



By W. T. HAYDON, President. 



First, let me thank yon for the honour yon have 

 deemed wise to confer npon me ; I most heartily 

 appreciate your kindness, but have more than vague 

 doubt as to the wisdom of your selection. You have 

 elected me to what must always be a difficult post for the 

 amateur to fill, but more so when called upon to follow so 

 brilliant a scientist as our esteemed friend Dr. Herdman. 



It is not, however, for me to apologise, but to act; 

 to do my best is all I can promise, and that I do right 

 heartily. With regard to the subject of my address this 

 evening, while fully aware that Presidential addresses are 

 generally concerned with generalities and summarizings, 

 I have ventured to take a definite subject — a subject to 

 which I have devoted some considerable time — in the hope 

 that it may prove acceptable and useful. 



The Saturday afternoon and the evening walks, the 

 holidays, and the spare moments of a busy life, have 

 been devoted during the past six years — for the most 

 part — to a study of the seed production of Pinus sylvestris. 

 Some details of that study I have pleasure in bringing 

 before you this evening. The subject has been studied 

 both macroscopically and microscopically ; the former in 

 the woodland, the latter in the laboratory upon material 

 collected and prepared by myself. 



To give in detail all the observations made would 



