PROCEEDINGS 



BERWICKSHIRE NATURALISTS' CLUB. 



Address delivered to the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, at 

 Berwick* October 12th, 1881. By the Rev. Thomas 

 Brown, F.R.S.E., Free Dean Church, Edinburgh. 



Gentlemen, 



Allow me most sincerely to thank you for the distinguished 

 honour you have done me in calling me to occupy the posi- 

 tion of President during the Jubilee year. The circumstance 

 that I belonged to the Club during the first year of its 

 history may have influenced you in your choice, but I feel 

 that it is only your kindness which could have induced 

 you to place me in a position which so many of your number 

 are much more entitled to occupy — all the more I beg to 

 oflfer you my thanks. 



It is with a strange feeling that one looks back over half 

 a century, and finds how the years have been passing away. 

 It would be a tempting theme to review the history of the 

 Club, to recall the memory of friends who are gone, to de- 

 scribe their work, and express the feelings which such a 

 retrospect calls up. This, however, if it were to be ade- 

 quately done, would require one far more intimately conver- 

 sant with your proceedings than 1 am. At an early period 

 my connection with the Club was interrupted — my parish 

 was on the sea coast north of Montrose — there were no 

 railroads in those days, and attendance at your meetings was 



* Delivered in part at Grant's House, 29th June 1881 — the JubUee Meeting. 

 B.N.C. — VOL. IX. NO. III. 2 A 



