PEOCEEDINGS 



BEKWICKSHIRE NATURALISTS' CLUB 



Addi'ess delivered to the Berwickshire Naturalists^ Club, at 

 Whittingham, September ISth, 1860, By Ralph Carr, 

 Esq., President. 



Gentlemen, 

 At our Anniversary Meeting it is the President's pleasing 

 duty to lay before you as accurately as he can, a record of 

 what has been done by the Club during the twelvemonth, 

 and especially to leave a succinct memorial of those happy 

 and social field-meetings, which to all of us, I trust, have 

 brought not only hours of enjoyment mingled with instruc- 

 tion, but also some accession of bodily health and energy. In 

 my own case I feel certain that it is hardly possible to respire 

 the air of a new district, lying perhaps not many miles from 

 home, but nevertheless upon a different geological formation 

 and a different subsoil, without perceiving that the earth com- 

 municates something of its character and properties to the air, 

 and that when man is not indolent and inactive, a corrective 

 and a cordial are prepared for him in the utmosphere of every 

 new locality to which business or reasonable relaxation may 



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