ADX)KE SS. 
limd by the Prenident, lAIu. Octavius Coudek, fo the Members 
^:/ the Nurfotk and Nurwich Naturalists' tiociety at their 
Twelfth Annual Meetiny, held at the Norfolk and Norwich 
Museum, 20th March, ISSl. 
.ADIES AND Gentlemen— III resigning my position jvs Pi-csident 
of your Society, I cannot but regret tliat a variety of pressing 
business engagements has obliged mo to some extent to neglect 
that close attention to its interests which I could have desired ; 
but, without furtlier ajiology, I can only add, that it is a iiart 
of that failure which will ever result, from the oft-repeated attempt 
to lit a s«]uaro man into a rouiul hole. 
It is with gratilication that I can notice that our List of 
JMembers h:is considerably increased during the p;ist twelve 
months; our numbers being now in excess of any previous 
year. AV o have lost by “ death, that ever will be slaying,” four 
members;— Miss Candler, of Bawburgh, whose life of usefulness 
endeamd her to a large circle of friends ; the Lev. Charles Howes, 
'I he Close, ^s^orwich ; Miss Bobbins, t,)ueen’s Boad, Xonvich, 
who has been several yeaw a member; and ^Irs. AVheeler, the 
■wife of our Secretaiy. 
Our monetary condition will, I believe, be found in a fairly 
satislactory state ; for, although the balance is not so large as on 
jirevious occasions, yet heavy outlays for binding and shelving 
will more than account for the deficiency. Through the courtesy 
of the Committee of the Literary Institution, we have been enabled 
to provide suitable accommodation for our many valuable books 
and transactions, and these being now thoroughly bound are at the 
V0I.4 m. 
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