PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BERWICKSHIRE NATURALISTS' CLUB. 



Address delivered to the Benuickshire Naturcdists' Club, at 

 Kelso, October 14-th, 1885. By the Rev. Thomas 

 Leishman, D.D., F.S.A. Scot., Linton, President. 



Gentlemen, 



The time has come at which your President, according to 

 usage, has to make formal resignation of his office. The 

 honour in my case had not been earned by any worthy 

 work done fur your Society, or even by constant attend- 

 ance. The chief reason for my selection was, I fancy, 

 that so much time had passed since my admission that 

 I had come to be nearly the oldest member in this part of 

 your territory who had not passed the chair. I knew that 

 in most of the fields of research which have been explored 

 by you under former presidents, my fitter place was that 

 of a humble learner. But it was not for me to decline the 

 office when you thought that my turn had come, and to the 

 best of my ability I have tried to perform its duties. 



One of these is to give at the October meeting a summary 

 of what the members have done and observed on the different 

 field-days of the season. Accuracy of memory and breadth 

 of acquirement far beyond what I can pretend to, would be 

 required to recall and record all that has come under our 

 notice as connected with the geology and archaeology, the 

 flora and fauna, of the places visited by us. But of late 



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