ADDRESS 
Read hj the President, the Eev. Joseph Crompton, to the Memhera 
of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturaliata’ Society at their 
second Annual Meeting, held at the Norfolk cmd Norwich 
Museum, March 31s<, 1871. 
Ladies and Gentlemen— In closing tho second year of the 
existence of the Norwich Naturalists’ Society and making way 
for my successor in the chair, my remarks must be few.* Our 
year’s publication of Transactions will show that the past has 
been neither a useless nor a barren year. Professor Newton’s 
paper on tho “ jMethod of Eegistoring Natural History Phenom- 
ena,” would of itself give a permanent value to our little hook, and 
I believe mil cause it to be gladly received by the many kindred 
Societies with which we are now in correspondence. The great 
value of the plan consists in the variety and completeness of the 
information with regard to each species of bird found in the 
neighbourhood, and the slight amount of labour required to keep 
up the daily record. Some results derived are highly interesting 
as, e.g. the migratory habits of the Song-Tlirush, and there can 
he no doubt that important results would bo obtained by tho 
comparison of Eegisters kept on Professor Ne^vton’s plan in 
different districts of the county and country. 
e have to thank heartily Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun. for his 
paper giving some of the results of his journey in Spain and 
Algeria, a district rarely visited by ornithologists, as also to 
rejoice in finding him following with such ardour and scientific 
accuracy, the steps of his father, to whom this Museum owes 
such a large debt for its celebrated collection. 
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