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president’s address. 
made frequent valued contributions to our ‘ Transactions,’ being no 
mean authority in his own particular department. 
Mr. John Cordeaux, though living in an adjoining county, was 
a valued member of our Society, being a very eminent Naturalist. 
His earliest publication was on the Birds of the Humber District, 
which has long remained the standard work on that subject. He 
was also an enthusiastic botanist and archaeologist. 
Mr. B. H. J. Gurney, of North repps Hall, being a son of so 
eminent a Naturalist, could not help but be a Naturalist 
himself. He was more than once a kind donor to the Museum, 
which I fear has lost a good friend by his too early decease. 
Memoirs of Sir James Paget, Mr. John Cordeaux, and 
Mr. J. B. Bridgman will be prepared by Mr. Southwell, and 
one of Mr. B. II. J. Gurney by Mr. Bidwell. 
I am not sure that the custom of expecting a paper from a retiring 
President as part of his Address is a good one. I rather think 
that a review of the year’s work of the Society should be sufficient 
both for your President to read and you to listen to at one meeting. 
The paper I now propose to read, if published at all (for it is in 
parts more controversial than our papers generally are), should, 
I think, following Mr. Gurney’s last year’s precedent, be printed 
as a separate paper. 
