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president’s address. 
The Biological Sciences, in which so many of us are interested, 
have shared to a striking extent in the general progress ; and in 
particular the ideas suggested by Darwin and others in connexion 
with Evolution have not only revolutionised Biology, but they 
have permeated and influenced modes of thought in subjects most 
diverse from that to which they owe their conception. 
The year lias not passed without several losses by death of 
members of our Society. 
Sir Francis Boileau, Bart., who died on December 2nd, 1900, 
was President of the Society for 1896 — 1897. He was well known 
throughout Norfolk as a public man and a philanthropist, and had 
filled many distinguished offices with success. He was President 
of the Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society at the time of 
his death ; and his year of office in our own Society is so recent 
that his loss comes home to us with special force. 
Mr. G. C. Eaton was a member of the Committee for many 
years. His kindly personality will be much missed at the Excursions 
of the Society. 
Major G. N. Micklethwait, who was a Life Member of the 
Society, belonged to a family which has long been associated with 
Taverham, although he died at Bath but a few days ago. 
The Bight Hon. the Earl of Darnley, and Mr. P. Crowley, 
a well-known collector of objects of Natural History, were also 
Life Members who have died during the year. 
The meetings of the Society have shown no falling off, either in 
the number of those attending or in the quality of the papers 
presented to the Society. 
The April meeting in last year was not held, but the Society 
joined with the Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society in 
attending a Lecture delivered by Dr. C. B. Plowright, on “ Woad : 
its Archaeology, Botany, and Chemistry, with special reference 
to the Art of Dyeing with it.” The survival of the Woad 
Industry in East Anglia lends a special interest to the subject 
of Dr. Plowright’s lecture. 
On August 22nd I had the pleasure of receiving some of the 
members of the Society at Cambridge, when we inspected the 
