PROCEEDINGS 



BERWICKSHIRE NATURALISTS' CLUB. 



Address delivered to the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, at 

 Berwick, October 16th, 1878. By John Hutton Bal- 

 foue, A.M., M.D., F.R.S., Sec. K.S.E., F.L.S., Professor 

 of Medicine and Botany in the University of Edin- 

 burgh. 



Gentlemen, 



In taking the chair on the present occasion, I have, in the 

 first place, to thank my fellow-members for the high and un- 

 deserved honour, which they have conferred on me in elect- 

 ing me their President for the year. When I accepted 

 office I had hoped to be able regularly to fulfil the duties of 

 it, but alas, my hopes were blasted by an attack of 

 jaundice and ague, which laid me up more or less for many 

 weeks, and quite unfitted me for exertion in walking or 

 driving. Although for many years a member of the Club, I 

 have not been able to attend the meetings regularly ; chiefly 

 because many of them are held during the months of May, 

 June, and July, when I am engaged with my lectures on 

 Botany ; and as my hours of lecture and demonstration ex- 

 tend from 8 to 10 A.M., I could not join the Club meetings, 

 especially in a distant part of the country, till late in the 

 afternoon. This I did occasionally, and I always enjoyed 

 B.N.C. — VOL. VIII. NO. III. 1 V. 



