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BERWICKSHIRE NATURALISTS' CLUB. 



Address delivered to the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, at 

 Berwick, October 10th, 1888. By Matthew T. Culley, 

 Esq., of Coupland Castle, President. 



Gentlemen, 



In returning thanks to you for the honour you have 

 conferred upon me in placing me in the position of your 

 President, I must refer to the melancholy event which led 

 to my receiving this distinction. I mean the sad and 

 sudden death of the President-elect, the late Mr Cadogan, 

 which was a very startling blow to all his friends. Mr 

 Cadogan was universally esteemed both as a country 

 gentleman and a county magistrate. He had been a mem- 

 ber of our Berwickshire Naturalists' Club for twenty 

 years, and would have worthily filled the office of President. 

 I am sure he is deeply regretted by all who knew him, and 

 his loss is the more striking, as there was every reason to 

 suppose he might have lived for many years to come. 



I find on referring to the addresses of former Presidents, 

 that in old days a principal duty of the President in the 

 Annual Address, was to recapitulate for the benefit of the 

 members assembled, the events of the meetings that had 

 taken place during the year. That however was in the 

 days when we had no Secretaries who devoted themselves 

 to the affairs of the Club like the late Mr Tate and the 

 present Mr Hardy. And long may he be the present Mr 

 Hardy, for what the Club would do without him I do not 



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