PROCEEDINGS 



BERWICKSHIRE NATURALISTS' CLUB. 



Address delivered to the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, at 

 Berwick, October 29th, 1877. By Charles Douglas, 

 M.D., Kelso, President. 



Gentlemen, 



Before, according to custom, as your retiring President, 

 giving a resume of our proceedings during the past year, 

 allow me to thank you for having conferred that honour 

 upon me at the last annual meeting. Aware as I am of my 

 own shortcomings, I might have been tempted to decline 

 the responsibility of office, had I not known that by the 

 traditional though unwritten rule of the Club, obedience was 

 imperative. The duties, I must say, have been light and 

 pleasant, thanks to the labours of our permanent Staff, and 

 the kind consideration of the members generally ; our meet- 

 ings being invariably characterised by such an interchange 

 of courtesy and good fellowship as is to be expected, when 

 all are met with a common object, and that object such an 

 attractive one, as the study of the works of the Great Author 

 of Nature. After so long an existence as our Club has en- 

 joyed, it is not to be expected that we should find much that 

 is altogether new ; our revered first President, in his address 

 when President for the second time in 1843, after eloquently 



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