162 Anniversary Address, 



found to vary somewhat in its character from year to year, with 

 the peculiar pursuits of the individual who happens to have been 

 chosen to be President. On the present occasion, 



" How the subject theme may gang, 



Let time and chance determine ; 

 Perhaps it may turn out a sang ; 



Perhaps turn out a sermon." 



If my address, Gentlemen, should savour most of the latter 

 character, you must bear in mind that you have brought it upon 

 yourselves, by your own act, in choosing a clerical President who 

 is not a naturalist. 



Last year the Club was congratulated on having attained its 

 majority. This year it may be made matter of just congratula- 

 tion that it has increased its progeny, and bids fair to be the 

 parent stock of numerous descendants, another Naturalists' 

 Club, formed upon the model of this, having started into life at 

 Greenwich. 



Several valuable papers upon the natural history and antiqui- 

 ties of this district have been read this year at the ordinary 

 meetings of the Club ; and these I now produce, viz. one by Mr. 

 Henderson, entitled '^ Chirnside, its Church and Churchyard ; '' 

 two by Mr. Selby, '' On the Flight of Aphides, September 12th 

 and following days, 1853 /^ and "On the Wasps observed within 

 the limits of the Club ; " by Dr. Johnston, " A Description of a 

 specimen oi Eschar a cervicornis, from Embleton Bay;^' by Mr. 

 George Tate, " An Account of round-headed Porpoises or Caaing 

 Whales {Phoccma melas), which came ashore on the Northum- 

 berland Coast on the 19th day of March 1854; '^ and we have 

 a paper from Mr. Donaldson Selby, " On the Megalithic or 

 Druidical remains of Carnac or Kernac in Brittany and in 

 Jersey .'' 



I have been favoured by our Secretary with Notes of the Ex- 

 cursions made this year by the Club, all but one of which I was 

 myself hindered from joining, by absence from the county during 

 three of the summer months. These notes I will proceed to 

 read : — 



Embleton, September 7, 1853. — " The Members who attended 

 this Anniversary Meeting were, — Mr. Tate, President, the Hon. 

 Capt. Gray, Mr. Selby, Rev. G. Rooke, Mr. MacBeath, Rev. H. 



