ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS 5 



soft dreamy shade, and in our many rich romantic valleys 

 and fine rivers. A notable spell of almost absolute 

 stillness, too, at times seems to hang and linger over 

 our hills and valleys. This to some produces a touch 

 of sadness, and to others a sort of romantic delight. No 

 one felt the impressive power of that stillness in its 

 pensive form more than Wordsworth, as expressed by 

 him in his Yarrow. 



Now, let me say in a word : we delight in the work 

 of the Club, and in the beauty and the glory of all we 

 see and feel in our pleasant wanderings over hill and 

 dale. 



" Man cannot stand beneath a loftier dome 



Than this cerulean canopy of light, 

 The Eternal's vast immeasurable home, 



Lovely by day and wonderful by night, 

 Than this enamelled floor so greenly bright 



A richer pavement man hath never trod ; 

 You cannot gaze upon a lovelier sight 



Than fleeting cloud, fresh wave, and fruitless sod, 

 Leaves of that boundless book writ by the hand of 

 God." 



A number of my woithy predecessors in office have, 

 in their respective addresses at the annual meetings of 

 the Club, given a resume of the work done at the field 

 meetings of the year ; but this, with your leave, I shall 

 dispense with on the present occasion. I do so because 

 you will, as you are aware, get detailed accounts of 

 these meetings when the Proceedings for the year are 

 issued. I may mention, however, that all the meetings 

 of the year were well attended, and were successful, and 

 that we had the good fortune to have bright sunny 

 weather at every meeting. 



I shall now address you shortly on some of the 

 changes in the distribution of some of our district birds 



