PROCEEDINGS 



BERWICKSHIRE NATURALISTS' CLUB. 



Address delivered to the Berwickshire Naturcdists' Club, at 

 Berwick, October 13th, 1880. By Charles Watson, E^q., 

 F.S.A., Scot., Dunse, President. 



Gentlemen, 



My year of office as President makes it incumbent on me 

 to thank you for the honour conferred, by electing me to 

 that position. 



Although the meetings have perhaps not been so largely 

 attended as in some years, owing to weather and various 

 other circumstances which it is needless to repeat here, I 

 trust you will find, when the year's Proceedings are put 

 into your hands, that our work has not been by any means 

 barren of results. And while on this subject, I would 

 earnestly appeal to every member to endeavour to add, 

 however little, to the pile of information which the Club 

 has been accumulating for so many years, for there is an 

 old and trite saying, if I remember right by the celebrated 

 Border man, David Hume, " that a single man can scarcely 

 be industrious when all his fellow citizens are idle ;" the 

 riches of the several members of the Club will contribute to 

 increase the riches of the whole, and it only requires each 

 B.N.C. — VOL. IX. NO. II. 1 A 



