ADDRESS. 
Read by the President, Walter Garstang, M.A., F.Z.S., to 
the Members of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' 
Society, at their Thirty-sixth Annual Meeting, held at the 
Norwich Castle- Museum, March 28 th, 1905. 
Ladies and Gentlemen — It is the first duty of your President, 
on the expiration of his year of office, to review the proceedings 
of the past year and to present a statement of the changes 
which have affected, or are likely to affect, the welfare of the 
Society, and the promotion of the objects which it has at 
heart. 
We have regretfully to record the death of four members, 
the Rev. Henry Wimble, the Rt. Hon. Lord Hastings, Mr. 
Charles Southwell, and Mr. C. G. Barrett. An obituary notice 
of Mr. Barrett has been prepared for the Transactions. 
Four members have resigned, and there are about six others 
who have not paid any subscription for some years, and 
presumably do not wish to continue their membership. The 
total number of members is about 270. 
Special mention must be made of a number of valuable 
donations to the Society during the past session. Dr. M. C. 
Cooke has sent copies of a number of his works. Mr. W. H. 
Tuck has presented all his books dealing with Natural History, 
numbering over 100. Colonel Irby has given the Society 
several valuable works on Ornithology, with a promise of 
more in the future. It was at first Colonel Irby’s wish that 
the Castle-Museum Library and our own should be amalga- 
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