PROCEEDINGS 



BERWICKSHIRE NATURALISTS' CLUB. 



Address delivered to the Bemvickshire Naturalists' Club, 

 at Berwick, October 9th, LS89. By John Scott 

 Dudgeon, Esq., Longnewton, President. 



Gentlemen, 



It having been your pleasure a year ago, to nominate 

 me to the honourable office of President of this ancient 

 and distinguished Club, I proceed to fulfil the duty which 

 devolves upon me, at this the wind up of the season's 

 proceedings, to address to you a few words. 



When I look back and consider the many eminent, 

 cultured, and distinguished men who have filled the 

 Presidential chair of this Club, during the fifty-eight 

 years which have passed since its institution, I feel how 

 utterly unworthy I am to occupy the position in which, 

 by your pleasure, I am placed. From no consideration 

 but that of length of years since which I joined the 

 Club, can I account for the honour it pleased the 

 members, last October, to confer upon me. I lay no 

 claim to having done anything to advance its interests, 

 or specially to promote its objects. The honour, there- 

 fore, I feel to have been all the greater; and words fail 

 me to convey to you my deep sense of the confidence 

 you chose to repose in me. 



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