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PEOCEEDINGS 



BEEWICKSHIEE NATURALISTS' CLUB, 



Address delivered at Belford, on the 24^A of Septemher , 1863. 

 By John Turnbull, Esq., of Abbey St. Bathans, Presi- 

 dent. 



Gentlemen, 

 On looking over the part of our transactions for 1837, which 

 has been reprinted by the Duke of Northumberland, I ob- 

 serve that the President of that year, (the late amiable and 

 accomplished Mr Baird of Yetholm,) stated it as an interest- 

 ing feature of our club, that we had continued " after an ex- 

 istence of six long years to meet with the same zeal and with 

 the same anticipations of enjoyment as we did at our first 

 formation, when our society possessed all the interest of 

 novelty." How much more forcibly may I now congratulate 

 you on our continued prosperity and success — on the har- 

 mony of our meetings — on the pleasure and instruction de- 

 rived from them — on the healthful change of occupation a day 

 with the club affords to many of us — and on the additions we 

 have made to the records of the Flora and Fauna of the dis- 



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