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interesting and agreeal)le, that it will well repay a second visit, 
especially as Major Leatlies has promised to afford the Society 
every facility for visiting the heronry in Herringfleet Wood. 
I cannot, however, omit to express my regret that, for the want 
ol better organization, the excui’sions have neither been so numer- 
ously attended, nor so successful as could be wished. I trust that 
this defect will be remedied in the year we are about to commence, 
for I look upon the excursions as essential to the well-being and 
success of the Society, as they are not only the motives many have 
for joining our ranks, but are also incentives towards the diffusion 
of a taste amongst the hitherto indifferent for those studies in 
which we, as naturalists, so much delight. In this opinion I am 
supported by the President of the Liverpool Naturalists’ Society, 
who says, “ Large numbers join our excursions who are not particu- 
larly interested in any branch of natural science, and this is just 
what the chief object of our Club renders a desirable circumstance ; 
the busy appearance of our workers, flushed with exercise, animated 
with success, is a practical and suggestive lesson on the difference 
of the amount of pleasure afforded by a walk with a special object, 
and a walk without one.” 
“ Culling from woods, and heights, and fields, 
Those untaxed boons which nature yields.” 
During the past year fifteen new members have joined the 
Society, and seven have withdrawn. Death has removed one — 
H. Ivett Tompson, Lsq. Our financial condition is satisfactory, 
and shows an increased balance of £5 over that of last year ; this 
will enable us to publish our T mnsactions as usual, but, at the 
same time, it has been a matter of regret to the Journal Committee, 
that they have not sufficient funds to permit them to include in 
this years publication the list of klorfolk Fishes, Avhich has 
been kindly placed at the disposal of the Society by Dr. Lowe, 
of King’s Lynn. 
Gentlemen, I will not detain you longer, but, in conclusion, 
congratulate the Society on the successful termination of its fourth 
year, as well as on the fact that it has succeeded in drawing together 
