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PEOCEEDINGS 



BERWICKSHIRE NATURALISTS' CLUB. 



Address delivered at Berwick, on the 30 th of September, 

 1869. By Sir Walter Elliot, K.C.S.I., of Wolfelee. 



Gentlemen, 



I was unfortunately prevented from attending the last Annual 

 Meeting, at Chirnside, on the 24th of September, and from 

 hearing the able address of your late President, Mr. Hardy, 

 on resigning the chair. On that occasion you were pleased 

 to nominate me as his successor — an honour wholly unex- 

 pected by me — and to which, as one of the youngest members 

 of the Club, which I only joined in 1862, 1 should have felt it 

 presumptuous to aspire. In accordance, however, with the 

 standing rule, which allows no option in the matter, it only 

 remains for me to return my grateful acknowledgment for 

 this mark of your favour. 



For an account of the proceedings of that day I am indebted 

 to the copious notes of our Secretary, which he has kindly 

 placed at my disposal. 



B.N.C. VOL. JSiMT. NO. I. A 



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