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Address to the Members of tlie Berwickshire Naturalists Club, 

 delivered at the Anniversary Meeting, held at Ftal, September 

 12, 1849. By G. C. Carpenter, Esq., President. 



Gentlemen, 



It becomes my duty this day to resign the President's 

 chair, which, by your indulgence, I have been permitted to 

 hold during the past year, and, in doing so, I must express 

 my regret, that I was obliged to be absent from so many of 

 the pleasant meetings which were held in my absence. 



I am quite aware that the Society would have derived very 

 little benefit from my presence, nor can 1 attribute my elec- 

 tion to any other reason than being one of its oldest mem- 

 bers, and it is therefore to that cause that I was nominated 

 by my predecessor to this honour, and the kind election of 

 the Club. I am sorry I have not to record many discoveries 

 of interest, as I learn from our worthy Secretary, "that 

 little has been done this year ;' but this is not to be wondered 

 at when we know that the various points of meeting have 

 been so often searched by so many " Detectives'' in the vari- 

 ous branches of Natural History ; indeed, were it not for tha 

 useful notes of our Secretary, I should have little to add to 

 the yearly report. I will, therefore, proceed to the summary 

 of the proceedings as I gather them from Dr. Johnston's 

 notes, with some remarks of my own. 



Belford, September 13, 1848. 



The Club assembled at Twisell House for breakfast, and the 

 manner in which it was entertained, proved our host's know- 

 ledge of the capacities and needs of his fellow -members. The 

 party was a large one. Some, after breakfast, interested them- 

 selves in the examination of Mr. Selby's excellent collections j 

 and, after a while, in three divisions, the party strolled 

 through the beautiful gardens, — then through the romantic 

 dean, — thence on to a valuable quarry, worked at present for 

 stone to build the viaduct across the Tweed at Berwick, — and 

 whence over the wide muirs which lie between Twisell and 

 Belford, their rendezvous for dinner. 



B.N.O.— VOL. II. NO. VII. 8 D 



