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BERWICKSHIHE NATURALISTS' CLUB. 



Address delivered to the Beriulckshire Naturalists' Club 

 at Berwick, December 20th 1900. By Arthur H. 



Evans, M.A., F.Z.S., Cambridge. 



Gentlemen, 



The year of my Presidency is now fast drawing 

 to its close, and the chief — and very pleasant — duty still 

 remaining to be performed is that of thanking you for 

 the great honour that you have done me in choosing 

 nie for the post. Residing as I do at a considerable 

 distance from the Borders, I fear that I have only partly 

 l)een able to fulfil the various functions that fall to the 

 lot of a President, and I must therefore beg you to look 

 with a lenient eye on my shortcomings, and to believe 

 that I have done my best, as far as in me lay, to 

 promote the prosperity of our old and well-known 

 Society. But I am fully sensible of the fact that my 

 best endeavours would have been in vain had it not 

 been for the kind and thoughtful co-operation of the 



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