PllOCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BERWICKSHIRE NATURALISTS' CLUB, 



Anniversary Address, delivered to the Berwickshire Naturalists' 

 Clttb at Berwick, January 30th, 1856. By Robert Emble- 

 TON, Surgeon, President. 



If, Gentlemen, on the two previous occasions, when I was, by 

 your kindness, elected to discharge the duties of your President, 

 I felt deeply how inadequate I was to do so in a manner com- 

 mensurate with the proud position in which I was placed, how 

 much more keenly do I feel my unworthiness on the present 

 occasion, when I am called upon to succeed him who was the 

 founder, the life and soul of our Club I The reasons you 

 assigned for the honour you then conferred upon me were such 

 that any one might be proud of, namely, that I was one of his 

 oldest and most intimate friends ; but these very reasons ren- 

 dered the task imposed upon me more delicate and more difficult. 

 For, in the first place, the little knowledge I possess of Natural 

 History is entirely owing to his kind superintendence, cheering 

 me on by his example and precept, and, in the hour of doubt or 

 difficulty, clearing my path from the obstructions which sur- 

 rounded it. How presumptuous, then, must it be thought by 

 all that I should attempt to give an opinion of his merits as a 



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