PROCEEDINGS 



BERWICKSHIRE NATURALISTS' CLUB. 



Address delivered to the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, at 

 Berwick, October 8th, 188 4,. By Francis Martin Norman, 

 Commander, R.N., Berwick, President. 



Gentlemen : 



In proceeding by your leave, to address you at the close of 

 my year's tenure of your Presidential Chair, let me assure 

 you how sensible I am of the honour which you conferred 

 upon me when you elected me to fill it. 



To notice, even in the briefest manner, all that is doing, 

 or has been done during the past year, in the vast sphere of 

 scientific interest in which we have our little orbit, would 

 be as impracticable as regards time, as it would be beyond 

 my abilities and the objects of our Club. 



Nevertheless, before I proceed, in accordance with presi- 

 dential custom, to give some account of our doings during 

 the season which ends to-daj^; our " close-time,'' in language 

 which will readily adapt itself to the comprehension of 

 dwellers on T weedside, beginning to-morrow, I will ask your 

 indulgence for a few minutes in an exceptional direction. 



DARWINISM AND NATURAL RELIGION. 



There is one great subject which, for some years past has 

 caused a wide and deep interest, not to say also, sensation, 

 throughout the whole civilized world, not only on account 

 of its immediate scientific value, and the light which it 



B.N.C.— VOL. X. NO. III. 2 B 



