ADDRESS. 
Rmd hy the President, Major II. W. Feilden, F.G.S., C.M.Z.S., 
to the Members of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' 
Society, at their Seventeenth Annual Meetiny, held at the 
Norfolk and Norwich Museum, March SOlh, ISSG. 
Ladies and Gentlemen — On tlie conclusion of my year of oflice, 
it is gratifying to bo able to point to the continuous prosperity of 
our Society, as shown by the Treasurer’s report which you have 
just heard read. This time last year the number of members w'as 
two hundred and fifty : wo have lost by death five, by withdrawals 
ten ; but twenty-five now members have been elected during the 
past twelve months, leaving a gain of ten, and bringing up tlie 
present number to two hundred and sixty ; namely, sixteen 
honorary, twenty-three life, and two hundred and twenty-one 
ordinary members. 
I regret that I have to report the unusual number of five deaths 
amongst our members during the past year, amongst whom are 
Captain William D’L^rban Blyth, of Hill House, Dersingham, an 
officer Avho served with distinction in India, and who, on his 
retirement from the army in I8G2, returned to his native county, 
where he was deservedly esteemed both as a county gentleman and 
sportsman naturalist. Captain Blyth died on April 21st, 1885. 
Sir Henry Josias Stracey, Bart., one of our Vice-Presidents, died 
at Rackheath, on August 7th last, having just completed his 
eighty-third year. Although he had never taken a very active part 
in the work of the Society, he, like Lady Stracey, whose death we 
had to record in our last year’s address, always evinced a deep 
interest in the objects we have in view, and was one of the earliest 
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