AI3DHESS. 
By the President, Sir Edward Newton, K.C.M.G., F.L.S., 
C.lNr.Z.S., to the Members of the Norfolk and Norwich 
Naturalists' Society. 
Ladies and Gentlemen — It is with much regret that I have been 
prevented by a serious illness not only from reading my address 
at the usual annual meeting on the 27th Marcli last, but even from 
preparing it in time for its publication in its proper place in your 
Transactions ; and I therefore have been obliged to ask that the 
publication of the remarks which I had intended to make on the 
expiration of my office might be postponed. 
Our tinancial condition, as is shown by the accounts, continues 
to bo nourishing. The number of members has increased to two 
hundred and sixty-seven, ten now members having been elected, 
but we have to regret the loss of two by death — Mr. J ohn Gatcombe 
and Mr. John Brownfield. 
Mr. Gatcombe, who was born at Knowle in Somersetshire, died 
at Plymouth, where he had resided nearly all his life, at the age of 
sixty-eight, on the 28th April, 1887. He was the author of many 
valuable and interesting observations on birds, published chiefly in 
the ‘ Zoologist,’ and was an excellent draughtsman, and made many 
pretty drawings of birds, and by those who knew him he was 
highly esteemed for his tenderness towards animals. 
^Ir. Brownfield, the son of an Irish gentleman who in the 
latter part of the last century had settled in the parish of 
St. Saviour’s in Norwich, died early in January last, at the 
age of seventy-eight. After completing his education in Paris, 
Mr. Brow’iifield returned to Norwich, where he rapidly acquired 
an extensive practice, and earned for himself a very high 
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