A I) D K E S S . 
Rmdhn the President, lln. J. U. Ccuxiiv, Jl’xr., F.Z.S., to the 
Members of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society 
at their Thirteenth Annual Meetiny, held at the Norfolk and 
Norwich ]\Iuseum, March 2Slh, 
L vdiks and (iicN’Ti.KMiix — ^^'hcn it was proposed to me to accept 
the olUcc of rresidont, I felt some doubt about accepting it ; not 
that 1 failed to appreciate the honour, but 1 feared that I should 
not bo regular in my attendance in the Chair at our meetings 
heM at the i\[useum ; for, living twenty miles away from Xorwich, 
1 find a good deal of dilHculty in coming up to evening meetings, 
Ihit I have attended more than I expected, and I have much 
enjoyed the o]iportunity of becoming better acquainted with the 
members of our Society. 
Although our meetings liavo been fairly attended, I think more 
would make an effort to be present if they knew how interesting 
tliey always are, and I can well imagine’ that those who have come 
once are (juite sure to come ag-ain. 
I wdl now, with your permission, briefly allude to the papers 
which have been read. At our April meeting 3Ir. Horace E. 
Woodward read a memoir of Dr. S. P. "Woodward, well-known to 
Fiiituralistb as the author of a ‘ ^lanual of the ^follusca,’ and 
j\fr. Ldward Ihilwell exhibited an albino Lesser Shrew, killed at 
J hetford. At tlie ^fay meeting ^fr. Oldham Chambers read an 
essay on “ I’iscicullure as a Source of Xational Wealth,” in which 
he showed that measures for multiplying the supply of our food 
fishes, by aiding national economy, increased national wealth. At 
the September meeting i\rr. J. P». Bridgman read some notes on 
VOI,. III. 
