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president’s address. 
for first mention is the establishment of a section of our Society at 
Great Yarmouth. Although contemplated at its formation, no 
such extension had hitherto taken place, there is therefore cause for 
much congratulation that our intentions are at length bearing 
fruit. On the 15th June last, four of our members attended a 
public preliminary meeting held at Yarmouth, on the invitation of 
Mr. F. Danby Palmer, when it was unanimously resolved to estab- 
lish a section of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists’ Society in 
that town ; the Eev. C. J. Lucas was chosen Chairman, Mr. F. 
Danby Palmer, Treasurer, and Mr. A. Patterson, Hon. Secretary, 
and mainly through the active exertions of these gentlemen, a goodly 
number of members was speedily enrolled. On the 24th October, 
with some other Norwich members, I had the pleasure of attending 
the first monthly meeting of the section, on which occasion the 
chairman of the section did me the honour to invite me to deliver 
an opening address.* Up to this time our promising offset has been 
working with great activity, and now I am happy to say numbers 
eighty-eight members. 1 am deeply gratified that this extension, of 
what I believe to be our usefulness, should have taken place during 
my year of office. One laudable object which the Yarmouth Society 
has at heart is the establishment of a museum worthy of the town, 
the nucleus of which already exists in the miscellaneous collection 
in the Toll House, and to which Lord Hastings’s generous donation 
of birds will be a material help. In furtherance of this object, 
I am informed that the Corporation has recently voted the sum 
of £G50. 
At the last annual meeting, I expressed a hope that the excur- 
sions, which had been rather neglected for the past year or two, 
would be revived with somewhat of the ardour of former times, and 
I think, that, favoured by the glorious weather which we enjoyed 
in the exceptional summer of 1893, the members who took part in 
our outings did not regret having done so. Sure I am, that all who 
on the invitation of Professor Newton, and Mr. Sidney Harmer, 
visited Cambridge on Whit Monday, the 22nd of May, 1893, will 
long remember with pleasure, not only the attractions of the 
* See p. 535. 
