PROCEEDINGS 



BERWICKSHIRE NATURALISTS' CLUB. 



Address delivered to the Berwickshire Naturalists' Cluh 

 at Berwick, October ISth, lcS9S. By Colonel Milne 

 Home, Caldra, Duns. 



Ladies and Gentlemen, 



In greeting you here to-day as 

 fellow-members of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club at 

 the 66th Annual Meeting, and in following the custom of 

 each retiring President of addressing you on the work of 

 the past year and the general position of the Club's affairs, 

 I feel that these or whatever subjects we discuss are bound 

 up with, if not in a sense eclipsed by, an event of such 

 recent occurrence, that I must begin my remarks with a 

 special reference to it. I need not say that that event is 

 the death of our venerable and venerated official and 

 friend, Dr James Hardy. I know that he — his long useful 

 life, his death so remarkably sudden, though not altogether 

 unexpected— is the main thought of every Berwickshire 

 Naturalist in the kingdom, whether present or absent 

 to-day. Many a one has said to me during the last failing 

 months of the Doctor's life as well as since his death, " I 

 don't know how we shall ever get on without him." 

 These few words speak volumes, and no one who has had 



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