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ADDRE SS. 
Read by the President, Mr. F. W. IIarmkr, F.G.S., to the 
Members of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society 
at their Tenth Annual Meeting, held at the Norfolk and 
Norwich Museum, March 25th, IS79. 
Ladies and Gentlemen — It is my painful duty to preface my 
address to you to-night by alluding to tho loss we have this 
year sustained, in the death of one of tho founders of this 
Society, the Lev. Joseph Crompton, m.a., who died in April 
last, in the 65th year of his age. lie was chosen by the 
unanimous wish of our members to bo our first President, not 
only as a tribute to his standing as a scientific man, but because 
of his enthusiastic love for the study of nature, and his generous 
sympathies with all engaged in scientific pursuits. More than 
thirty years ago we find him associated with Lindley, Sedgwick, 
and Brightwell, as lecturer at our Museum, in which institution 
he always took the warmest interest, as indeed he did in every 
effort for the furtherance of scientific investigation, or of scientific 
education, lie was a man of broad views and of wide culture, 
and his loss will not easily be replaced. 
We have also to deplore the decease of the Rev. J. Bates, m.a., 
which took place February 13th, 1879. His death is the more to 
be lamented, as he was but 50 years old, and still in the prime of 
life. His success at the University of Cambridge, where he 
graduated as 11th wrangler, gave promise of a distinguished career, 
nor was the promise unfulfilled. But, perhaps, he was most of all 
distinguished for his constant readiness to impart to others the 
varied stores of general and scientific information which in so large 
a measure he possessed. He had been repeatedly solicited to pre- 
aide over our Society, and although his many engagements had 
hitherto prevented him, lie would doubtless before long have 
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