Excerpt from Reminiscences of a Yorkshire Naturalist Writing these reminiscences of his life's work was one of the pleasures of Dr. Williamson's later years. I have thought it better to give them to his readers without alteration, and have done nothing more than put his disconnected sketches into some thing like order, add a few footnotes, and the last pages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.