PROCEEDINGS 



BERWICKSHIRE NATURALISTS' CLUB, 



Address delivered to the Berivichshire Naturalists' Club, at 

 Berwick, October 15th, 1879. By John Paxton, Esq., 

 President. 



Gentlemen, 



My first duty is to thank you most sincerely for having 

 chosen me as your President for the year now about to ex- 

 pire. That you should have elected me, who am only a 

 smatterer in Natural Science, knowing a little of many 

 things and not much of anything, to succeed such an 

 eminent veteran as Professor Balfour, astonished no one so 

 much as myself; and now standing here, I feel my position 

 most keenly, as I am conscious how far my humble en- 

 deavours must fall short of his eloquent and instructive 

 address. On that occasion he was accompanied by his wife 

 and son. I am sure the deep sympathies of the members 

 are with Dr Balfour in the painful bereavement he has since 

 then sustained in the death of Mrs Balfour. 



Soon after I commenced my medical studies, fifty-three 



years ago, in this town, under the late Dr Cahill, I had the 



good fortune to make the acquaintance of Dr Johnston, one 



of the original founders of this Club, and its first President. 



B.N.C. — VOL. IX. NO. I. A 



