PROCEEDINGS 



BERWICKSHIRE NATURALISTS' CLUB. 



Address delivered at Berwick, on the 28th of September , 

 1865. By Frederick J. W. Collingwood, Esq., Glan- 

 ton Pyke, President. 



Gentlemen, 

 " Go to the ant, thou sluggard, consider her ways, and be 

 wise," would in my opinion form a very appropriate motto 

 for a club such as ours, consisting, as it does, of a body of 

 men calling themselves naturalists, and whose province it is 

 to study and investigate the wonderful works of God, and 

 to record their observations for the benefit and instruction 

 of society in general. 



As President of this Club, it is my duty to recapitulate 

 the transactions and discoveries as they have occurred at our 

 several meetings during the past year ; and though I myself 

 have been but as a drone in a hive of bees, yet as a drone I 

 have my use, if it be only to record the result of our labours 

 and researches during the time I have had the honour to 

 fill this chair as your President. There is, however, little 

 left for me to say — three out of the four places of meeting 

 having been previously visited, and ably notified by former 

 presidents. 



B.N.C — VOL. V. NO. III. 2a 



