PROCEEDINGS 



BERWICKSHIRE NATURALISTS' CLUB. 



Address delivered to the Berwickshire Naturalists' Cluh, at 

 Selkirk, October 11th, 1882. By the Rev. James 

 Farquharson, M.A., Selkirk, President. 



Allow me, in the j&rst place, to return you my sincere 

 thanks for the high honour you conferred upon me twelve 

 months ago in electing me President of the Club. I esteem. 

 it a special honour to hold office in the first year after the 

 celebration of the Club's jubilee. At first I failed to see 

 any good reason for selecting myself for that special honour. 

 Neither for regularity of attendance at the meetings, nor for 

 amount of contribution to the proceedings, could I claim dis- 

 tinction. But it occurred to me as a reason for my selection 

 that I was the oldest member of your western, or Selkirk- 

 shire contingent ; and that, whether accidentally or of inten- 

 tion, my tenure of office as President in the year after the 

 jubilee marked the wider range of territory which the Club 

 now claims as its own, and indicated that so far from think- 

 ing our work done after fifty years' happy labour, we simply 

 gird ourselves afresh, and with the strength of acquired 

 experience issue forth to explore " fresh fields and pastures 

 new." 



It is the custom of the Club to regard the President's 

 address as the record, or minutes, of the Club for the 

 year. Accordingly, without further preface, I shall endeav- 

 our to lay before you a short description of our excursions, 

 and of the business transacted after the day's walk or drive 

 was over. In preparing this record I need scarcely say 



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