ADDHESS. 
Read hy the President, Mil. IT. TJpciiEn, F.Z.S., fn the Members 
of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists’ Society, at their 
Fifteenth Annual Meetiny, held at the Norfolk and Norwich 
Museum, March 27th, IS 84 . 
L.vmE.s AND GENTLEMEN-AVhen you did mo tlio honour to elect 
mo as your Prosident, you also as.sured mo that you would deal 
leniently with mo in case of any shortcomings. ] feel tliat I 
have trespassed to the utmost on your leniency; and am fully aware 
of my sliortcomings, in not attending more regularly tlie pleasant 
and instructive meetings hehl in this room. But I was unable 
in tlie winter to undertake the niglit journeys whicli would have 
enabled mo to do so. In return for your generous kindness, I 
have now to inflict upon you a paper of unlimited length and 
unparalleled did ness. 
During the past year fourteen new members have been elected ; 
whereas wo have been fortunate enough only to lose five ; of tliese' 
two were by death, viz., Pev. John Bailey and iMr. Alfred ^Master. 
Ihree liave discontinued. So wo now number two hundred and 
forty-six members, an increase of nine this year. 
The financial state of the Society is in a flourishing condition. 
I will now, with your permission, briefly allude to some of the 
papers which have been read during the past year. 
At the first meeting, in April, the Secretary read some interesting 
. extracts from General Xorgate’s diary, on Natural History in India” 
Igh-ing a curious account of the habits of several species of Ants.’' 
Tlie ways and customs of these busy little folk have been much 
inquired into in England of late, and it is interesting to know 
that there arc as many as thirty-four or thirty-five British species. 
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