PEOCEEDINGS 



BERWICKSHIRE NATURALISTS' CLUB, 



Address delivered to the Berioickshire Naturalists'' Club, at 

 Cornhill, on Septemher ^^th, 1867. By Francis Doug- 

 las, M.D., President. 



Gentlemen, 



My first duty in addressing you to-day is to return my most 

 sincere thanks for the very unexpected honour conferred 0:1 

 me last year at your anniversary meeting. Few of your mem- 

 bers have been honoured a second time by election as your 

 President, and when I look back to the revered names of Dr. 

 Johnston, Mr. Selby, and Mr. Embleton, (all of whom have 

 contributed so largely to the discoveries which our Transac- 

 tions record), I cannot but feel how far inferior have been my 

 feeble efforts in the fields of natural history, and can only 

 attribute the occupation of the chair, for the last year, to your 

 kindly welcome of the return to your ranks of one of your 

 oldest members, after an absence of above 20 years in India. 

 In the history of this club, these twenty years have produced 

 many important and many painful changes. The former I 



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