^l13D^ESS. 
Read by the President, F. D. Wheeler, M. A., LL.D., to the 
Members of the Norfolk ami Norwich Naturalists’ Society, 
at their Twenty-third Annual Meeting, held at the Norfolk 
and Norwich Museum, March 29th, 1892. 
Ladies and Gentlemen — On the conclusion of my year of office 
I have to congratulate the Society on its continued prosperity as 
shown by the Treasurer’s report. The numbers of the Society 
have also been fairly maintained. 
During the past year we have lost by death six members : Sir 
B. N. Fowler, Bart., the Bev. J. II. Feilden, Mr. Francis J. Gurney, 
Mr. J. A. Miles, Mr. F. B. Middleton, and the Bev. IT. P. Marsh am. 
Only the last-named gentleman took an active part in the affairs of 
the Society. 
Mr. Marsham was born at Stratton Strawless in 1817, and 
graduated at Cambridge, where he was a scholar of Trinity Hall, 
as S.C.L. in 1842, and LL.B. in 1846. In 1842 he took orders, 
and succeeded in 1859 to the living of Stratton Strawless, which 
he held till 1872. In 1874 Mr. Marsham entrusted to Mr. 
Southwell, then Hon. Sec. of this Society, the diary of his great- 
grandfather, Bobert Marsham, F.B.S., of Stratton Strawless, 
who originated the unique series of observations from which his 
‘ Indications of Spring ’ were compiled. These observations, 
commenced at Stratton Strawless in 1736, were communicated to 
the Boyal Society by Mr. B. Marsham in 1789, and continued 
(with one interval of twenty-six years, which occurred between 
1810 and 1836) by his successors to the spring of 1891. A paper 
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