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SECTION K. BOTANY. OPENING ADDRESS BY PROF. J. REYNOLDS GREEN, M.A., Sc.D., F.R.S., PRESIDENT OF THE SECTION. THE visits of the British Association to a particular city recur with a certain irregular frequency and bring with them a temptation to the President of a Section to dwell in his opening Address on the progress made in the science associated with that Section during the interval between such consecutive visits. This course possesses a certain fascination of its own, for it enables us to realise how far the patient investigations of years have ultimately led to definite advances in knowledge and to appreciate the difficulties that have involved disappointments, and that still have to be surmounted. We like to look back upon the struggles, to record the triumphs, to deplore the failures and to brace ourselves for new efforts. The opportunity afforded hereby for criticism of methods, for reconsideration of what have been held to be fundamental principles, for the laying down of new lines of work based upon longer experience, shows us how desirable such a periodical retrospect may be.
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The British Association at Belfast . Nature 66, 582–600 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/066582b0
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