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ANNUAL ADDRESS TO THE MEMBERS 



OF THE 



^oiith ^'ondon OrntomoloigiQl and gatural iistorn 



Read January 22nd, 1903, 



By Frederick Noad Clark. 



GENTLEMEN, — You have just heard from the Council's 

 Report that the affairs of the Society are in a flourish- 

 ing condition both numerically and financially. The Society 

 has now entered upon its thirty-second year of existence, 

 and probably at no other period in its history has the 

 average attendance of members at its meetings been so well 

 maintained. The number of newly elected members also is 

 a matter for satisfaction. It is particularly gratifying to us 

 to find among the ranks of our younger members several 

 who are doing good work in one or other of the Orders to 

 which they have directed their special attention, and it is in 

 this connection that we have evidence of the vitality and 

 usefulness of a Society such as ours. It was a matter for 

 general regret that owing to a serious accident my prede- 

 cessor in the Chair, Mr. Fremlin, was absent from our 

 meetings during a considerable portion of his year of office, 

 and, as a consequence, was unable to deliver the usual 

 annual address. I am happy to find that he has now quite 

 recovered, and is with us once more. 



It is my sad duty to record the loss by death of two old 

 and valued members — Major A. Ficklin and Mr. Mark 

 Winkley. 



Major Ficklin's death took place on February 4th, some- 



