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An Address delivered at the Anniversary Meeting of the Ber- 

 wickshire Natmalists Club, on the IQth September , 1846. 

 By Robert Embleton, Esq., President. 



Gentlemen, 



In resigning, a second time, the office of your President, I 

 must be allowed to congratulate the Members, not only on 

 the health and prosperity of the Club itself, but also upon 

 the stimulus it has given to the cultivation and extension of 

 the study of Natural History in other parts of the kingdom. 

 During the past year, two Clubs similar to our own have 

 been formed, under the direction of two of our Members, — 

 one at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, under the Presidency of Ralph 

 Carr, Esq. ; the other at Cotswold, under Sir Thomas Tancred, 

 Bart. ; and I cannot entertain the slightest doubt, but that, 

 as their nature and usefulness become known, they will be 

 followed by many others in various parts of the kingdom. 



Our last Anniversary Meeting was held at Dunsdale, Che- 

 viot, and was attended by fourteen Members and nine visi- 

 tors. Not being able to take our conveyances further than 

 Heathpool, we had to encounter a walk of four miles to our 

 place of rendezvous, the greater part of which was over the 

 rocky bed of the mountain rivulet. The general equanimity 

 in the temper of the Club was more than once nearly over- 

 turned ; but after many a lingering look for the smoke of 

 the Clachan, our philosophy met with its merited reward in 

 a plentiful and substantial breakfast As the breakfast hour 

 had been considerably delayed, no time was lost in com- 

 mencing our wanderings. Part of the company took their 

 rods, and a plentiful supply of mountain trout at dinner 

 was the best evidence of their success. The other Members 

 set out for the top of the hill, up the bold and rocky ravine, 

 which stretches from the shepherd's house to the very sum- 

 mit of the hill. During the ascent, many of our old familiar 

 friends were observed, including Epilobium ahinifoUum et al- 

 pinunij Cor7ius sttecicayEubus chamwmoruSy Vaccinium vitis idoea^ 



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