280 PBESIDENT SH ADDKESS. 



The caution to students of Botany and to collectors of plants, 

 for whatever purpose, to preserve, and to assist in preserving, 

 in their natural localities, the rarer plants of the district, and 

 to students of Ornithology, and others, interested in birds, to 

 abstain from shooting rare birds, cannot too often be repeated. 



Lastly, to render our Volumes of Transactions more useful and 

 available, we much want an Index to the whole. 



And now I have arrived at the end of my, I fear, too long 

 address, of my year of office, and, I am sure, of your patience, 

 and I resign my post to a successor who will do more ample jus- 

 tice to your affairs than I can pretend to do. 



Note A for Page 256. 



This statement that St. Cuthbert was elected Bishop of Hexham occurs also 

 in the History of St. Cuthbert auctore anonymo^ in Vol. 61 Surtecs Society's 

 publications, containing Symconis Dnnclmcnsis Opera et Collectanea. In 

 Vol. I., at pp. 139, 140, we find, ''Endeni tempore defunctus rex Oiwegius 

 est, et rcgnavit pro eo filius ejus Egfridus. Quo regnante Theodorus archi- 

 episcopus Eboracensis et omnis populus commuui con.«iIio, et una concordia, 

 sanctum Cuthbertum fieri episcopum apud Helstaldesham acclamavcrunt.... 

 Tunc rex Ecgfridus et archicpiscopus Theodorus, et omnis popu- 

 lus, congregata syiiodo, communi consilio decrcverunt, ut eum, vellet noUet, 

 de insula educereut et in episcopatu subrogarent. Quod et factum est." 



Then follows the statement, "Eadem die Eata episcopns Lindisfarnensis, 

 et Sanctus Cuthbertus, communi consilio Ecgfridi regis, et arcliiepiscopi et 

 illorum scptcm episcnporum, ct omnium majorum, sedes suas conmiutaverunt. 

 Sicque Eata apud Hclstaldesham scdit ; sanctus vero Cuthbertus propter 

 priorem conversationem Lindisfarncnsem cathedram obtinuit." 



But in Appendix II., in Brevis rtI<itio de Sancto Cut/ibcrto, at page 224, 

 is given the following account of the Election in which Uexham or Hclstal- 

 desham is not mentioned. 



V. — Hic ELiGiruu IN Episcopum. 



"Anno Dominica; incarnationis sexccntesimo septuagesimo sexto, anno 

 itigni Egfridi sexto, monachatus sui vicesimo sexto, intravit insulam Fame 

 vir Domini Cuthbertus, per novem annos mira aniini alacritate Domino mi- 

 litabat. P»>stea congregata synodo uon parva sub priusentia piissimi regis 

 Egfridi ct beatic memorial Thcodori, Cantuaricnsis arcliiepiscopi, in loco 

 qui dicitnr Twiford juxta fluvium Alnc, unanimo omnium consensu ad epi- 

 scopntum LindiMfarnenscm ele^tus est. Qui, cum, multis legatariis pro se 

 miBAin ct Uteris, nequacpiam huo loco posset erui, rex prefatus, et Trnmwine 



