PEOCEEDINGS 



BEKWICKSHIEE NATURALISTS' CLTJB. 



The Annual Address, delivered at Norham, on the 22nd qf 

 September, 1858. By the Rev. William Darnell, M.A. 

 President for the year. 



Gentlemen, 



So many topics of local and general interest have been ex- 

 hausted by my able Predecessors in this chair, and in the 

 various contributions which grace our annals, that in con- 

 fining myself to a recapitulation of our proceedings during 

 the past year, coupled with such observations as the occasion 

 seems to suggest, I shall best consult the dignity of the Club, 

 and my own feeling of inability to fulfil the task assigned to 

 me as your President. To proceed then at once, in inedias res : 



Our anniversary meeting was held at Alnmouth, on 

 Thursday, the 24th September, 1857. The members present 

 were, Messrs. P. J. Selby, Robert Home, Revds. J. D. Clark, 

 George Walker, L. S. Orde, F. R. Simpson, Wm. Darnell, 

 G. S. Thomson, G. H. Hamilton, Charles Thorp, Dr. G. R. 

 Tate, Messrs. J. Church, William Dickson, jun., Capt. Geo. 



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