ANNIVERS'ARY ADDRESS 135 



song of the nightingale in Whittingham Wood, North- 

 umberland, on 5th June of the same year. 



The other names to be noted are : — P. S. Maclagan, 

 Wooler; Mrs Essex Thompson, Darlington; Charles Erskine, 

 Melrose ; John Bolam, Bilton ; William Alder, Berwick ; 

 Lieut. -General Sprott of Riddell ; Richard Stephenson, 

 Chapel, Duns; Rev. David Hunter, D.D., Galashiels; and 

 John Cochrane, Galashiels. 



I have the honour to nominate as my successor Captain 

 F. M. Norman, R.N., who, after a period of over twenty 

 years from his former tenure of that office, will now for 

 the second time adorn the President's chair. 



