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ADDRESS 
Head by the President, Mu. J. B. Bridgman, to the Members of the 
Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists’ Society at their Seventh 
Annual Meeting, held at the Norfolk and Norwich Museum, 
March 28th, 1876. 
Ladies and Gentlemen — The timo has arrived for mo to vacate 
the very honourable post to which you elected me twelve months 
ago, an honour which I have deeply felt, more especially so, as I 
am painfully aware of my own short comings; my only claim to 
your indulgence is that I have done my best: I will not detain 
you, however, with apologies, as my address is, I fear, already too 
long, but materials have so accumulated, that the ditliculty has 
been in condensing the materials at my command. 
The Society I am happy to say continues in a very flourishing 
condition, fresh members are continually joining us, but we should 
bo very glad to receive more papers than we do on the various 
branches of Natural History from our working members, of which 
there must be many. 
The “ Norfolk Fauna and Flora ” is indebted to Mr. H. D. 
Geldart for the continuation of his list of Flowering Plants, this 
list is especially valuable, coming from so well known and 
accurate an observer. 
To Mr. John Quinton, jun., the Society is again indebted for his 
Meteorological Summary, especially valuable for the accuracy with 
which it is compiled ; we must also thank the Meteorological 
Society for their permission to publish these summaries. 
In May, Mr. (.’order read a short but interesting paper on the 
Musk of Commerce, he also exhibited a pod in which it is secreted 
and a caddy in which it is imported. 
In June a short paper by Mr. Plowright was read on the Fungi 
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