PROCEEDINGS 



BERWICKSHIRE NATURALISTS' CLUB. 



Address delivered to the Benuickshire Naturalists' Club at 

 Berwick, 15th October 190S. By Commander F. M. 

 Norman, R.N., Berwick on Tweed, President. 



Ladies and Gentlemen, 



At the close of every season since the establishment of 

 our Club in 1831, the letiring President has been expected 

 to give, and invariably has given, an account of his 

 stewardship in the form of an Annual Address — a practice 

 which has obvious advantages. In the first place it 

 keeps the President up to the mark by impressing him 

 with a due sense of responsibility and active interest 

 during his term of office. Then it revives retrospectively 

 the pleasure and instruction which our meetings afforded 

 or might have afforded to members who attended ; while, 

 at the same time, it helps members who did not attend 

 to keep in touch with the doings of the Club ; and, 

 lastly, in conjunction with the Secretary's report of 

 meetings, it is the official record of the year. At the 

 outset I must assure you of my high appreciation of 

 the honour and pleasure which I have enjoyed in occu- 

 pying this chair for the second time after an interval 

 of twenty-three years — a formidable slice, not only out 

 of the history of the Club, but out of any man's life, 



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