PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BERWICKSHIRE NATURALISTS' CLUB, 



• 



Address to the Members, delivered at the Anniversary Meeting held 

 at Newtown, September Sth, 1852. By Robert Home, Esq., 

 Presideot. 



Gentlemen, 



It was to me an unpleasant surprise, that a person so incompetent 

 either to take a useful part in your transactions, or to give a 

 tolerable account of them, was, at our last Anniversary, appointed 

 President. A fixed rule, it seems, forbade me to decline the 

 honour; but I trust this year's experience will admonish the 

 Club of the importance of making in future a better choice ; for 

 had I not been favoured by our Secretary and by Mr. Tate with 

 their notes of the meetings, the address from the Chair, on the 

 present occasion, would have been an entire failure. 



The preceding Anniversary Meeting took place on the 3rd 

 September, 1851. The place of the Meeting made it somewhat 

 interesting; it was the birth-place of the Club twenty years 

 before. This is the Secretary's note of it : — " Present — Rev. 

 Dr. Gilly, President; Dr. Johnston, Secretary; Rev. J. Baird, Mr. 

 Embleton, Mr. Selby, Rev. J. D. Clark, Mr. Home, Mr. Dick- 



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