PEOCEEDINGS 



BEEWICKSHIEE NATUEALISTS' CLUB. 



Tlie Annual Address^ delivered at Wooler, on the 29th Septemher, 1859. 

 By John Charles Langlands, Esq., President of the Club. 



Gentlemeist, 

 The return of another anniversary affords me the opportunity of 

 expressing my sincere acknowledgments, for the unexpected honour, 

 which you conferred upon me last year, by electing me your 

 President. A feeling of my own incompetency to occupy such a 

 position would have led me to decline so high an honour, had 

 not a rule of the Club forbade my doing so. 



I have endeavoured to fulfil one of the duties of the office in at- 

 tending all the meetings during this summer; meetings which 

 have been favoured by bright and beautiful weather, and marked 

 by pleasant intercourse. I shall now attempt to discharge another 

 duty of your President, and offer a cursory review of the proceed- 

 ings of the past season. The courtesy and forbearance which I 

 have already experienced at your hands, encourage me to hope, 

 that my shortcomings on this occasion will not be subjected to a 

 very unfriendly criticism. 



The anniversary meeting of 1858 was held at Norham, on the 

 22nd of September. I could not attend that meeting, and am 

 indebted to Mr. Tate for the following notes of the proceedings. 



" There were present, the President, (the Eev. "W. Darnell), P. J. 

 Selby, Eev. J. D. Clark, John Church, John Church, jun., George 

 Tate, D. Milne Home, "Wm. Boyd, Dr. Eobson, Eev. E. Kirwood, 



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