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I CANNOT lay the following paper before the readers of NATURE without repeating an apology which I addressed to my audience at the Royal Institution on this subject. I can make no pretence to speak with authority; I speak only as a learner who has devoted to the subject some leisure from amidst avocations of a very different kind. But the pleasure I have derived from the study, the sense, whenever I am in the country, that I am surrounded with a world of variety and beauty of which I was formerly only dimly conscious, and the hope of communicating some of this pleasure to others may, I hope, furnish some apology for my venturing to speak on the subject.
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The British Mosses 1. Nature 43, 379–382 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/043379b0
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