PROCEEDINGS 



BERWICKSHIRE NATURALISTS' CLUB. 



Address delivered at Coldstream, on the 29th September, 

 1870. By the Eev. George S'elby Thomson, A.M., 

 Rector of Acklington, President. 



Gentlemen, 

 I must throw myself on your kind and lenient judgment, as 

 I feel myself utterly unworthy of the high honour you did 

 me in electing me your president for this year. It was 

 entirely unexpected, and it was with some trepidation that I 

 received the announcement. When I look back on the dis- 

 tinguished men who have preceded me, bright lights in 

 various fields of science — Dr. Johnston, Sir William Jardine, 

 my revered and dearly loved relative, Mr. Selby, Mr. Baird, 

 Mr. D. Milne Home, Mr. Embleton, Mr. Tate, and last, 

 though not least, one who has served his Queen and country, 

 with such great ability and efficiency, as to win the knightly 

 cross of the most exalted Star of India, Sir Walter Elliot — I 

 feel that the mantle of these eminent men has most unworthily 



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