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ADDRESS. 
Read by the President , Mr. H. D. Geldart, to the Members of the 
Norfolk and Norwieli Naturalists' Society, at their Sixth 
Annual Meeting , held at the Norfolk and Norwich Museum, 
March 30th, 1875. 
Ladies and Gentlemen — 
In resigning into your hands the office of President with which 
you entrusted me, I have much pleasure in congratulating you on 
the prosperous state of our Society. The number of our members 
steadily increases, although we have this year lost by death two of 
our original members, Mr. Bransby Francis and Mr. Thomas Han- 
cock ; in both cases their lives have been sadly and unexpectedly 
cut short. Our finances are in a good and sound condition ; the 
extra expense which was incurred by printing Mr. C. G. Barrett’s 
valuable list of Lepidoptera in a separate form, has been much 
lightened by the liberal contributions of Lord 'Walsingham and 
others, given specially for that object ; and though the publication 
of the various lists of the Fauna and Flora of the county is a 
heavy charge upon our funds, yet the statement of accounts shows 
a sufficient balance in hand to warrant the publication of a full-sized 
number of our Transactions for the year. 
Our meetings have been fairly well attended and supplied with 
papers, many of them of much interest ; in May our Secretary read 
us an excellent paper on “ Aphides,” since published elsewhere. 
In June and September Mr. Stevenson kindly read to us two 
papers on Swans, which form part of his forthcoming volume 
on “ The Birds of Norfolk.” In August, Mr. J. H. Gurney 
favoured us with some very valuable notes on Zoology and Orni- 
thology made by the late Miss Anna Gurney of Northrepps, and 
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