PEOCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BERWICKSHIRE NATURALISTS' CLUB, 



Address delivered to the Berwickshire Naturalists Club at 

 Bertuick, lJf.th October 1909. By Robert Shiera Gibb, 

 M.B., CM, Boon, President. 



Ladies and Gentlemen, 



When asked by Captain Norman, R.N, to allow myself 

 to be nominated President for 1909, I confess to having 

 felt a great amount of diffidence in giving my consent 

 for many reasons, the chief being my want of qualification 

 as a leader of such a Club as this. While I have been 

 an interested and, I hope, appreciative member for some 

 eight-and-twenty years, I am not a specialist in any of 

 the various subjects which occupy the attention of most 

 of our members, and I must plead guilty to being one 

 of those general members who by the men of action may 

 have been sometimes more or less lamented as drones 

 rather than workers, and as being recipients of information 

 rather than givers of it. I appreciate therefore all the 

 more the great honour you have done me in accepting 

 my services as your President during the 3'ear which 

 this meeting brings to a close. I must sincerely thank 

 )^ou for the great kindness and courtesy extended to me, 

 and for the kind indulgence with which you have condoned 

 the shortcomings so apparent in my year of office, and 

 which I hope you will further extend to the few remarks 

 I propose to make on this occasion. It was with 

 much regret that I was prevented by an urgent business 

 engagement from being present at the Rutherford and 

 Ancrum meeting, and I take this opportunity of thanking 

 Mr Henry Rutherfurd for his ready consent to fill my 

 place. 



B.N.O.— VO;.. XXI. NO, I. P 



