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president’s address. 
was contributed to this Society in 1875 by Mr. Southwell, giving 
some account of Mr. Marsham’s journal and of his remarkable 
register of Natural History phenomena, and bringing the summary 
down to the year 1874. Since that time Mr. H. P. Marsham has 
kindly supplied him with his annual observations. I do not know 
whether these will now be discontinued, but in that event it would 
be interesting to have a summary of the whole. 
We are also indebted to the late Mr. Marsham for the interesting 
series of letters written by Gilbert White to his great-grandfather, 
together with which we have been able to print the corresponding 
letters from Marsham to White, through the kindness of the late 
Professor Bell, in whose possession they were. The whole form a 
series of twenty letters, unpublished up to that time, and possess 
great interest. They will be found printed in our ‘Transactions’ for 
the year 1 87 4 — 5. 
The late Mr. Marsham inherited to the full that love for all that 
is beautiful in nature which so distinguished his ancestor ; and, in 
spite of failing health and impaired eyesight, he continued his annual 
observations to the last. Mr. Marsham’s kindly nature and great 
amiability endeared him to many beyond his immediate circle of 
friends, and with him has passed away another of the courteous 
country gentlemen of the old school, a type fast becoming so rare. 
His expressed desire that no flowers might be sent to his funeral 
was highly characteristic of his love for these exquisite productions 
of nature ; for the thought that his committal to earth might be 
the occasion of the lavish destruction of many of these beautiful 
objects, which had afforded him such intense pleasure during life, 
could not fail to be distressing to one who loved so well “all things 
both great and small.” 
We have lost also by removal or other causes ten names, but 
twelve new members have been added, bringing the roll of 
membership to a total of two hundred and fifty as against two 
hundred and fifty-four. 
At the first ordinary meeting of the Society Dr. Plowright gave 
a most interesting paper on some Remains of Neolithic Man, which 
will appear in the ‘Transactions,’ exhibiting a number of flint 
