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president’s address. 
have to lament the loss of two members by death, Mr. B. M. 
Stedman, who never took an active part in our proceedings, and 
Mr. T. Boberts, who was a constant attendant at the monthly 
meetings, and frequently exhibited interesting specimens which 
came into his hands in the way of business ; he was a most skilful 
taxidermist, very observant, scrupulously exact, and the ready 
kindness with which he imparted his experience to others will 
cause his loss long to be felt by working ornithologists. 
Financially, as we have just heard from the Treasurer, we are in 
a good position, and the contributions to our Library have been 
numerous and valuable, for which we are chiefly indebted to 
Professor Newton, Mr. Hugh Gurney Barclay, and Mr. Geoffrey 
Fowell Buxton. 
The closing duty of my year of office, otherwise so enjoyable, is 
the only one which has occasioned me any anxiety. I need only 
mention that, by the Laws of our Society, the President is “invited,” 
and I fear expected, to supplement the business portion of his 
address by some more or less original remarks of his own. Should 
he not be a specialist, as happens to be my case, this may prove a 
difficult task. I must, therefore, ask your forbearance if I choose 
a subject which may savour perhaps as much of Archaeology as of 
Natural Science ; what I have to say, however, shall have a strictly 
local bearing. 
I do not think we all of us fully realise what an exceedingly 
intei’esting part of the country we inhabit ; geologically, the County 
of Norfolk offers many most difficult problems, its Fossil fauna and 
flora are exceptionally rich and suggestive, and have been worked 
out with great care, whilst its surface, although not presenting any 
of the extremes of mountain and glen to be found in some parts of 
our favoured island, is remarkably diversified, and possesses beauties 
and physical peculiarities little dreamed of by the unobservant, and 
not even appreciated to the full by some of us who have passed our 
lives in their midst. The late Mr. Stevenson, in the introduction 
to his ‘ Birds of Norfolk,’ has admirably portrayed the very marked 
features which characterise the “ Districts ” into which he has 
divided the County of Norfolk, and so accurate are his descriptions 
