PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BERWICKSHIRE NATURALISTS' CLUB, 



Address, delivered to the Berwickshire Naturalists* Club at 

 Belford, October 29th, 1856. By Robert Embleton, Sur- 

 geon, President. 



Gentlemen, 



1 DID not expect that I should have been called upon to address 

 you a second time in one year, as I considered my reappoint- 

 ment to the high honour of President merely as a step in some 

 degree necessary for the arrangement of the affairs of the Club 

 in connexion with the office of your Secretary, which 1 had under- 

 taken to perform. As, however, according to our usual custom, 

 it was necessary to take some notice of our proceedings during 

 the year, I considered myself bound not to depart from it. 

 And in the first place I hope I may be allowed to congratulate 

 the Members, that during the year we have not had again to 

 mourn the loss of any one, but that several names have been 

 added to our list, and that the affairs of the Club arc in a most 

 satisfactory position. 



The Anniversary Meeting was held at Berwick on the 30th 

 of January, when I read to you the address which I had been 

 requested to prepare upon the character of our deeply-lamented 



B.N.C. — VOL. III. N°. VII. 8 



