273 
201: members, ami at the annual meeting before that 194. 
'We now roach 234, liaving in the past }x*ar lost none, I am 
gla<l to .say, by doatli, ami only nine by Avitiulrawal, ami aJilca 
thirty-nine. 
All this, combinea with the scicntilic e.KCellence of much which 
lias appeared and will ajipear in our ‘ Transactions,’ is very satis- 
l.ictory; Ihe addition of so many new members particularly so; 
ami it is to be hoped that some of them will contribute jiapcrs for 
the evening meetings, though not necessarily for publication if the 
authors do not wish. 
One of the best features of our .Society has Ixien the formation 
of a bTaturalists’ Library, easy of access to all, and providing books 
and, more particularly, .Scientific Journals and Transactions which 
arc very diflicult to bo had. The chief additions to this department 
have been : ‘ The Tishes of India,’ by Fi-ancis Day, presentc«l by 
the Author; the ‘Seals and Whales of the Lrilish .Seas,’ by 
Thoniiis Southwell, presented by the Author; the ‘Proceedings of 
the Loyal (Jeograidiical Society,’ presented by :\lr. Hugh (b 
Barclay; Vols. i.— vii. of the ‘Transactions of the Xorthumher- 
land Natural History .Society,’ presented by the Society. Besides 
all this, through the energy of our Secretary, e.xchanges of publica- 
tions have, during the past session, been established with the 
following additional Societies The Xorthumberlaml Xatural 
History Society, The Loyal Society of Edinburgh, The Croydon 
Microscopical and Xatural History Society, The Xorthamptonshire 
Natural History Society, The Imperial Society of Xaturalists of 
i^loscow. 
I propose to occupy the rest of this evening with some remarks 
on our County’s Ornithology of some slight interest to those of our 
members who have an ornithological bias, and I hope that I shall 
not be dull to the rest who find occupation for their time in other 
specialities. M hile we all love Xaturc, each, be ho a student of 
flowers, insects, or birds, occupies himself with and devotes his 
time to the branch ho likes best; but it is the united strength of 
all which h.as kept up the X"orwich Xaturalists’ .Society, and will 
keep it up, I hope, for nnny a long day. 
