PROCEEDINGS 



BERWICKSHIRE NATURALISTS' CLUB. 



Address delivered to the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, at 

 Berwich, October 12th, 1S87. By the Rev. David Paul, 

 M.A., Roxburgh, President. 



Gentlemen, 



I have to thank you first of all for the honour I have 

 enjoyed as your President during the year that expires with 

 our meeting to-day. It is no small distinction to he even 

 for a short time at the head of a Club so old, so well known, 

 so large in its membership, and numbering in its ranks so 

 many men of scientific attainment. I have greatly appreci- 

 ated the honour, and I retire into a private position again 

 with a lively sense of gratitude for your goodness in bestow r - 

 ing it. 



I have been relieved by the kindness of the Secretary 

 from the duty which otherwise would have devolved upon 

 me, of chronicling our doings and discoveries at our various 

 meetings. No one can do that so well as he can, and the 

 Club will gain by my leaving it alone. I am thus set free 

 to choose a topic of address for myself. And I have selected 

 the subject of Fungology for two reasons, partly because it 

 is one of which I happen to know something, and partly 

 because it is one which has not received from the Club all 

 the attention it deserves. I may say, however, at once, that 

 I am not going into the matter deeply or abstrusely ; I am 

 not going to lecture on any of its difficult problems, or bring 



U.N.C. — VOL. XII. NO. I, B 



