ADDRESS. 
Read by the President, Mr. Eustace Gurney, to the Members 
of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, at their 
Thirty-seventh Annual Meeting, held at the Norwich 
Castle-Museum, March 2 jth, 1906. 
Ladies and Gentlemen — We have to record losses to the 
Society, by death, of Colonel Irby, Mr. F. Dauby Palmer, 
Mr. W. E. Baker, Mr. H. E. Buxton, and Admiral Hamond. 
The late Colonel Irby presented some valuable books to 
the library of the Society, a list of which appeared in our 
last year’s ‘Transactions.’ 
Mr. F. Dauby Palmer was instrumental in forming the 
Great Yarmouth Section of our Society, though illness 
prevented him latterly from taking any further part in its 
work. 
Mr. W. E. Baker was not an active member, probably 
owing to his living at some distance from Norwich. 
Admiral Hamond was a life-member of the Society, and 
like many other members of his family, was much interested in 
Natural History. 
Mr. H. E. Buxton was one of the early pioneers of Alpine 
mountaineering, and assisted in the preparation of some of 
the early maps of the Alps. He was also much interested in 
Botany, and discovered a hybrid Narcissus in the Pyrenees. 
He was President of Breydon Wild Birds Protection, and 
as Vice-Chairman of the Suffolk County Council, took an 
active part in the promotion of the Wild Birds Protection 
Bill. 
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