342 
PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS. 
Those who seek to advance knowledge pursue it with varied 
motives. It may be as a means of livelihood, or with motives of 
personal ambition, or with the desire to do some useful work. 
The several motives may co-exist : but the greatest spur in any 
work must be that of its utility, using the word in its highest 
sense — that it should bo of some service, intellectual or practical, 
to our fellow-creatures. 
Now the methods of science differ in the course of time according 
to increased knowledge and better apparatus. This very fact 
indicates that much may be done in going over old ground and 
reinvestigating known phenomena. At the same time the progress 
of science shows the greater need with those who seek to bo workers, 
of preliminary training in the fundamental sciences of Chemistry, 
Physics, and Biology. Such training is indeed necessary for those who 
would become experts in Mineralogy, Petrology, or Palaeontology ; 
l 
but the fact that it cannot be obtained by many who would like 
to devote their attention to Geology, need not deter them from 
taking some part in the work that has to be done. Science owes 
a very great deal to those who never had any scientific or academic 
training. 
In a maritime county like Norfolk the student has a natural 
text-book of Geology all along the sea- coast, and the subject is 
further illustrated by the rivers and broads. There is, indeed, much 
in the physical geography and natural history of Norfolk that will 
throw light on the origin of the later Tertiary strata that are 
developed in the eastern part of the county. Let the beginner, 
then, give an attentive study to all that is going on at the present 
day in his own county. The waste of the cliffs, and the character 
of the beach-deposits furnish lessons ; for in the accumulations of 
rough flints on the fore-shore near Sherringham, may be discerned 
the formation of a layer like the “ stone-bed ” or basement portion 
of the Norwich Crag; while in the sands and shingles that fringe 
the shore, and appear in shoals further out at sea, that sometimes 
yield many marine shells, and sometimes are barren, may be seen 
resemblances to the Crag strata. Along the borders of the Glaven, 
by Blakeney Harbour, there will be found estuarine muds, and 
