20 ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS 



Lastly, I repeat to you Allingham's verses, " The Lover 

 and the Birds " :■ — 



Screamed Chaffinch, " Sweet, sweet, sweet ! 



Meet me here, meet me here ! " 

 Chaffinch be dumb, in case thy darhng prove no better 



than a cheat. 

 The man forlorn hears earth send up a foolish noise aloft. 

 " And what'U he do ? what'll he do ! " scoffed the blackbird. 

 Worse, mocked the thrush, " Die die I 

 " Could he do it 1 could he do it 1 Nay ! 

 " Be quick ! be quick ! Here, here, here. 

 " Take heed ! take heed ! Why 1 why ? why ?— Why ? why '? 

 " See-ee-now ! see-ee-now ! Back ! back ! back ! B-r-r-run 



away 



(The Lark.) "Air, air! Blue air and white! 

 Whither I flee, whither, O whither, O whither I flee 

 Hills many waters glittering bright. 

 Whither I see, whither I see ! deeper, deeper, deeper. 

 Whither I see, see — see." 



It is now my pleasant, but last, duty to nominate 

 my successor, and this I. now do by nominating, as 

 President for the next year, Mr A. H. Evans, Cambridge. 

 He has been a member of the Club for twenty-four 

 years, and his attainments in the paths of natural 

 history are well marked. 



