THE NATURALIST

A Monthly Journal of Natural History for the North EnglandWhilst listening to the paper and debates in Section K, in August last, Mr. Baker must have been forcibly impressed with the difference in the state of our knowledge of botany at the present time compared with the year 1847, when, as a scholar at the Friends School, at Bootham, in the same city, the subject of our sketch had developed sufficient interest in botany to be appointed Curator of the herbarium of that school. And from that time until to-day he has had his hobby well before him, and has kept abreast with the study of plant life as it has progressed with the years. This, of course, so far as was humanly possible, as, particularly during the last decade, such rapid strides have been made in such a multitude of directions that it is not now possible fer any single individual to be familiar with the details of the various branches of even botanical science.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.