PROCEEDINGS 



BERWICKSHIRE NATURALISTS' CLUB. 



Address delivered to the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, at 

 Berwick, September 26th, 1872. By the Rev. F. R. 

 Simpson, North Sunderland, President. 



Gentlemen, 

 In addressing you on this occasion, I cannot but feel that it 

 is a most happy circumstance, and a subject for mutual con- 

 gratulation, that,"as"a Club, we are now old enough to have 

 precedent and tradition to guide us in our proceedings. Your 

 President's course is defined by an established usage of over 

 forty years, so that he knows pretty well what is expected of 

 him in preparing his anniversary address. That usage, while 

 it leaves him free to express his own thoughts on any matter 

 brought before, or bearing upon, the well-being of the Club, 

 yet confines him, as to the main bulk of his address, to pre- 

 senting you with a summary of the Club's Proceedings for 

 the year during which he has held his office. It is, I confess, 

 a relief to have one's line thus clearly chalked out, so long as 

 one is not confined too strictly to run in a groove. Follow- 

 ing, then, the example of former Presidents, I shall lay before 



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