ADDRESS. 
Read by the President, Mu. W. H. Bidwell, to the Members 
of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists’ Society, at their 
Thirty-third Annual Meeting, he/d at the Norwich Castle- 
Museum, March doth, 1902. 
Ladies and Gentlemen — It now becomes my duty to pass in 
review the work of another year, a year which we may consider 
a prosperous one for our Society. It is true we have to lament 
the loss of some old and valued friends, but we have gained 
new members and we now number 2G5. Those removed by death 
are : — Archdeacon W. Pelham Burn, Messrs. 1). C. Burlingham, 
John Young, and E. L. Birkbeck, short notices of whom will be 
found in our ‘Transactions.’ 
Our meetings have been well attended, and many of them have 
been of a very interesting character. Most of the papers contributed 
will be printed in our ‘Transactions.’ I will not therefore trouble 
you with a list of them, but will mention two important exceptions. 
On the 20th May, Dr. Gerald Leighton addressed us on British 
Serpents, especially with regard to their distribution, illustrating 
his lecture by exhibiting many specimens obtained by him during 
a short stay in East Norfolk. At our January meeting, Mr. F. \Y. 
llavmer read “A Geological Sketch of the History of Broadlaud.” 
Unfortunately, Mr. llarmer had promised this paper for publication 
elsewhere. Much useful discussion followed, and we were glad of the 
opportunity for congratulating the author on the honour of receiving 
the Murchison Medal, recently awarded him by the Council of the 
Geological Society. 
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