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president’s address 
The next meeting was on 31st October, when Mr. J. H. Gurney 
very kindly took the chair in my absence. 
A letter was read from Mr. R. Holt- White, who is about to 
publish a Life and Letters of Gilbert White, of Selbourne, asking 
permission to print from the ‘ Transactions ’ of this Society the 
White — Marsham Correspondence. Our excellent friend, Professor 
Newton, of Cambridge, had also written supporting the request. It 
is needless to say that such a request so supported was granted. 
Every Naturalist must feel that too much cannot be done to 
honour and make known the work of the great Gilbert White of 
Selbourne. 
The last meeting of last year was held on the 28th November. 
Miss Barnard exhibited a portion of the stem of a Climbing 
Bamboo, from Queensland. 
Mr. Patterson contributed his Notes for October and November. 
A number of Grey Plovers were seen in the early part of October. 
A fine example of the Anchovy, taken in a herring-net on 
30th September, was shown, length 7^ ins. Other interesting 
occurrences were alluded to by Mr. Patterson. 
At our January meeting Mr. J. H. Gurney exhibited a live 
Silky Icterus ( Molothrus bonariensis) from South America. 
Mr. Patterson contributed his interesting “ Notes from Yar- 
mouth,” for December, 1899, and January, 1900, in which he 
mentioned that a Short-nosed Sturgeon, 4 ft. long, was brought to 
the Fish wharf on 23rd November, 1899. Several facts as to bird 
life were brought under notice by him. 
Mr. J. B. Beckett sent some Radiated Trough Shells ( Mactra 
stultorum), many of which have been washed ashore at Gorleston 
recently. 
The second meeting of this year was held on the 27th February, 
when Mr. H. D. Geldart applied for leave to use the botanical 
information relating to the County of Norfolk, contained in the 
Society’s ‘ Transactions,’ for the purpose of a new County History, 
to which he is to contribute the botanical matter. Mr. Geldart 
explained that he would apply also to the writers of the various 
papers where they are known. Your President remarked that there 
