PROCEEDINGS 



BERWICKSHIRE NATURALISTS' CLUB. 



Address delivered to the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, at 

 Bunse, September 28th, 1876. By Archibald Camp- 

 bell Swinton, Esq., LL.D., F.K.S.E., of Kimmerghame, 

 President. 



Gentlemen, 



The salutary rule of our Club which prohibits after dinner 

 speeches, prevented me from expressing at the Anniversary 

 Meeting at Alnwick, my grateful sense of the high honour 

 conferred on me by being elected your President. The dis- 

 tinction was not the less appreciated because it was felt to 

 be undeserved. Nor has my limited acquaintance with the 

 subjects to which the Club devotes its attention diminished 

 my enjoyment of the Meetings, which I have attended during 

 my term of office. Of these Meetings I proceed according to 

 custom to give a short account, for the materials of which I 

 am mainly indebted to the kindness of our learned and zeal- 

 ous Secretary, Mr Hardy ; though I must also express my 

 obligations to the reports in the local newspapers, in some of 

 which it is not difficult to trace the practised hand of one 

 of our members. 



B.N.C. — VOL. VIII. NO. I. A 



