ADDRESS AT GREAT YARMOUTH. 
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ADDRESS. 
Delivered by the President, T. Southwell, F.Z.S., to the 
Members of the Great Yarmouth Section of the Norfolk and 
Norwich Naturalists' Society , at their First Monthly Meeting , 
held on October 24th, 1893. 
I have been asked to say a few words by way of an opening 
Address at this first meeting of our Society in Great Yarmouth, and 
I do so with very great pleasure, congratulating you and myself on 
the happy event which we are here to inaugurate. 
When our Society commenced its existence, twenty-five years ago, 
it was contemplated to establish branches, or sections, in various 
parts of the county, or even of a more extended district, the better 
to carry out the work of investigating its Fauna and Flora; and it 
was hoped, by this means, wo should be able to collect through the 
assistance of resident workers more complete and exact information 
than could otherwise be obtained. One of our rules provides for 
the appointment of local secretaries wherever it might be thought 
desirable, but hitherto, much to my regret, and I doubt not that of 
some other active members of the Society, a quarter of a century 
has passed without any such extension taking place, and I cannot 
help expressing my extreme satisfaction that it should happen during 
the year in which I have the honour to hold the office of President 
that my dream of the future should begin to assume a reality. 
This satisfaction is, if possible, enhanced by the first of these 
sections, soon I trust to be followed by others, being established in 
the Borough of Yarmouth, the capital of the east coast of Norfolk, 
and the chief town of a district with unprecedented traditions. 
