PROCEEDINGS 



BERWICKSHIEE NATURALISTS' CLUB, 



Address delivered, to the Berwickshire Nati.iralists Club, at 

 Berwick, October Hth, 1890. By Majok-General Sir 

 William Grossman, of Gheswick, K.C.M.G., F.S.A., M.P., 

 President. 



Gentlemen, 



Although this is my last day of office, it is tlie 

 first opportunity I have had to thank you for the honour 

 you conferred upon me last Gctober in choosing me as your 

 President for the season just past. 1 accepted the appoint- 

 ment with much diffidence, as I feared that public duties 

 might have interfered too much with what was due to the 

 Club ; fortunately, I have been able to be present at all but 

 one of your field meetings, and I have to congratulate you 

 upon the success of them all. Though this year there may 

 be no new discoveries to be recorded, or anything of start- 

 ling interest to be noted in Natural History or Archaeology, 

 still, favoured on the whole by charming weather, we have 

 enjoyed beautiful scenery, have had opportunities of study- 

 ing the beauties and mysteries of Nature, and, at the same 

 time, renewed our acquaintance with some of those ancient 

 remains connected with religion and war, so profusely scat- 

 tered throughout the classical region over which our 

 operations aie carried on. But, before referring further to 

 these field excursions, I think the Club is to be congratulated 

 on having been the medium of submitting to the scientific 



B.N.O. — VOL. XIII. NO. I. B 



