PEOCEEDINGS 



BERWICKSHIRE NATURALISTS' CLUB. 



Address delivered to the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 

 at Berwick, 12th October 1911. By Rev. Jamks 

 Fleming Leishman, M.A., Linton, President. 



Ladies and Gentlemen, 



My first duty is to thank the members of this Club 

 for the honour which they conferred last year in calling 

 me to be President. A quarter of a century ago my father 

 occupied the chair, and it is pleasant to follow in his steps, 

 although, after reading the list of past Presidents, and 

 perusing the roll of present members, many of them at 

 home in domains of Natural Science to which I am a 

 stranger, while my gratitude deepens, my sympathies are 

 with him 



" Who sat in Newton's chair, 



And wonder'd how to goodness he got there." 



Our field-days during the past year have all been 

 favoured with sunshine. Only one — the Blanchland 

 meeting — had to be abandoned, or rather postponed, owing 

 to an upheaval in the railway world. My duties as 

 President have not been onerous, thanks to the courtesy 

 of the members and the excellence of the Club officials, 

 notably our indefatigable Secretary. 



As in former years, our ranks, I regret to say, have 

 been thinned by death. Let me enumerate 

 Obituary the names as they stood in order upon our 

 List. roll : — John Tate, Alnwick ; Rev. William 



Workman, Stow ; Cuthbert E. Carr, New- 

 castle-on-Tyne ; Robert Mordaunt Hay, Duns Castle ; Dr. 

 Thomas Caverhill, Edinburgh; Walter Cochrane, Edinburgh; 

 and Rev. Matthew Forster, EUingham. Add to these 



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