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An Address delivered at the Anniversary Meeting of the Berwick* 

 shire Naturalist's Cluh, on the M September 1846. By the 

 Rev. J. Dixon Clark., President. 



Gentlemen, 



The practice of thirteen preceding Anniversaries has, I find, 

 prepared you to expect, on this occasion, a brief address, in which 

 it is customary to recapitulate the transactions of the Club during 

 the past season. Before I proceed to do so, however, I trust I 

 may be permitted to express my acknowledgments for the unex- 

 pected honour you conferred by placing me in this chair as 

 President for the year, — an honour I must have requested permis- 

 sion to decline, had I not felt assured of the able assistance of the 

 more scientific members in matters where I should experience any 

 difficulty. Without further preamble, then, I shall proceed to 

 read the minutes of our Meetings at the places agreed upon in 

 October last. 



Our Anniversary in 1844 was celebrated at the Heather House, 

 in Budle Bay, on the 18th September. The members assembled 

 at breakfast were Mr Selby, President, Mr Embleton, Rev. J. D. 

 Clark, Mr Darling, Rev. G. Walker, Mr Brodrick, Mr Melrose, and 

 Mr Boyd. Mr G. C. Lambert, Mr A. Brown, and Mr Adshead, 

 favoured the Club with their company as visitors. 



After breakfast the Club commenced their walk along the shore 

 as far as the Black Rock, where a fine view of Bambui*gh Castle 

 presents itself, as, in the position in which it meets the eye, the 

 greater part of the building and keep is brought into a pyramidal 

 form, giving it "the appearance of liigh elevation. The ocean 

 afforded a grand aspect ; a strong breeze from the north-east 

 having called up a heavy sea, which broke in huge and curling 

 waves upon the shore, and the Fame Islands in the distance 

 seemed surrounded with a mass of foaming breakers. The portion 

 of the coast traversed was strewed ^vith numerous MedtisoBy mostly 

 of the common species. One of verj* large dimensions, with long 

 pendant tentacula, was afterwards noticed by Mr Clark and Mr 

 Embleton upon the shore of Budle Bay. From the Black Rock 



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