MR. F. D. PALMER ON OLD-TIME YARMOUTH NATURALISTS. 
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IX. 
ABSTRACT OF A PAPER OX OLD-TIME YARMOUTH 
NATURALISTS. 
By F. Danby Palmer, Y.P. Yarmouth Section. 
Read at Yarmouth, 18th March, 1895. 
The subject to which I wish to draw your attention this evening 
appears to be one which, if properly treated, should, relating as 
it does to the acts and deeds of thoso naturalists of former times 
who have preceded us in local research, with regard to the subject 
which wo are founded to foster, attract the special attention of 
our Society. 
Tho County of Norfolk has, as you are aware, been noted for 
its Naturalists, and of these worthies those who lived in or near 
Yarmouth have been some of the more noted ; therefore it is in 
the hope of preserving the memories of such that I have prepared 
this paper, which I think I cannot better open than by quoting 
the following words of the late Mr. Dawson Turner, when, presiding 
at the fifth annual meeting of the Norwich Museum, held on the 
25th November, 1829, he said: — 
“When I speak of Norfolk as a county distinguished for the 
love and the pursuit of science, I am by no means using words of 
course, or wishing to flatter the self-love of you or of our fellow- 
countrymen at the expense of truth. I do, indeed, feel that Norfolk 
is deserving of such an epithet. I remember, about thirty years 
ago, being in company with one of the most distinguished 
naturalists of Europe, and, at the same time, with a botanist from 
a distant part of England, w r ho had been upon a visit in Norfolk. 
The former, congratulating the latter upon what he had seen and 
gathered, observed that there must, of necessity, be some singular 
advantage in the soil, the climate, or the position of Norfolk which 
made it so celebrated as abounding in the rarer productions of 
Nature ; and he was not a little astonished when told that, on 
the contrary, Norfolk was one of the districts of England the 
