PROCEEDINGS 



BERWICKSHIRE NATURALISTS' CLUB. 



Address delivered to the Berwickshire Naturalists'' Club, at 

 Chirnside, September 24:th, 1868. By James Hardy, 

 Esq , of Old Cambus. 



Gentlemen, 

 Your President is not expected to trace tlie progress of 

 Natural History or Archseology, either at home or abroad, 

 during the season, but chiefly to recapitulate the operations 

 of our own Society during the summer months. Observation 

 rather than profound or extensive learning is the standard we 

 fly over our meetings in the field; and hence alertness in 

 looking about him, is a very necessary qualification for one 

 who is called to preside over you. We have had enough of 

 thought and book-lore at home, and therefore the teachings 

 of Nature are what we pay most attention to ; selecting from 

 her stores whatever may refresh or reinvigorate the mind, in 

 the various branches of research to which any of us may have 

 taken a fancy. It is in this spirit that I venture to take up 



B.N.C. — VOL. HSfc-NO. YI. OC 



