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president’s address. 
At the September meeting Mr. Eldred described a recent visit 
to Cbartley Park, with an interesting account of the Wild Cattle 
preserved there, a young bull from which herd he said had been 
presented to the Zoological Society. Mr. Southwell also exhibited 
an adult male of the Caspian Plover, which had been shot at 
Yarmouth : this interesting bird, new to Britain, has been placed 
in the Norwich Museum. 
In October the Honorary Secretary read a paper on Woad, with 
an account of a visit to the Woad Mill at Parson Drove, near 
Wisbech, the only remaining spot in England where this plant is 
cultivated and the ancient industry still pursued almost with its 
original simplicity. 
Mr. Charles Candler, at the November meeting, gave a most 
interesting account of a holiday trip to Holland, his purpose being 
to visit Naarder Meer, near Amsterdam, the most northern breeding- 
place of the Spoonbill in Europe; in this he was quite successful, 
and saw many of the birds and their nests. Mr. Candler’s 
historical remarks on the breeding of these birds will be read with 
interest. Extending his trip to the Island of Texel he gives an 
account of the birds observed, with a list of the species which 
have been known to breed there. 
In January Mr. Southwell contributed some additional in- 
formation with regard to the late John Dawson Downes and his 
connection with falconry in Norfolk; and Mr. W. H. Tuck sent 
some notes on the birds which had visited his garden at Tostock, 
near Bury St. Edmunds, during the prolonged frost of December 
and January. 
At the February meeting Mi’- J- H. Gurney read a critical 
paper on the occurrences of the Great White Heron in Great 
Britain ; the conclusion arrived at was that out of thirty-three 
reported occurrences only live could be regarded as authentic. 
Mr. Southwell made some observations on the rarer birds 
which had been obtained in Norfolk during the past year; 
* Charadritti asiaiicus (see Proc. Zool. Soc. 1890, p. 461, uuder the name 
ol 2Eglalitis asiaiicus). If the subgenera of Chanulrius be elevated to 
generic rank, the Caspian Plover is probably an Eudromias. 
