president’s address. 
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was probably no one so well qualified as Mr. Geldart to do Norfolk 
botany. 
Mr. Charles Williams, on behalf of Mr. W. S. M. D’Urban, 
asked the acceptance by this Society of a copy of ‘ The Birds 
of Devon,’ by Mr. D’ Urban and the Rev. M. A. Mathew, in 
memory of the former connection of Mr. D’ Urban’s family with 
the County of Norfolk. The gift was gratefully accepted. 
Alter the reading at our February meeting of Mr. A. W. Preston’s 
“Meteorological Notes for 1899,” our old friend Mr. Dix (whom 
we were all very pleased to see well enough to be with us again) 
exhibited his rain chart of the monthly fall for a hundred years, 
which begins and will end with the century. Mr. Dix explained 
that a large proportion of the records were actually taken by 
himself, and drew attention to the fact that the rainfall for the 
past January and February is the largest in those two months for 
over ninety years. 
At a meeting of your Committee, held at the Norfolk and 
Norwich Library on the 12th June, new book-cases were ordered 
to be fitted in the room set apart there for our use at a cost of £36. 
These are now complete, and the books all in place. 
During the year we have received donations of books from 
Mr. Gurney, Professor Newton, Dr. Harmer, Mr. II. G. Barclay, 
Mr. G. F. Buxton, and Colonel Feilden. 
By our Treasurer’s report our finances will be found to be in 
a satisfactory state. 
We have lost by death and other causes fouiteen members during 
the year. We have gained eight new ones, making our present 
number 250. 
Our deaths have been four, all of them notable members. 
Sir James Paget, F.R.S., born in Great Yarmouth, lltli January, 
1814, was a man of world-wide reputation, but we think of him 
most as an eminent local Naturalist who to the hist took a lively 
interest in everything connected with the county of his birth. 
Mr. J. B. Bridgman had been an active member of our Society 
since its formation in 1869. He was President in 1875-6, and 
