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president’s address. 
a Committee was appointed to consider the matter. As 
Mr. Jarrold expressed a wish to interview Mr. W. A. Nicholson 
on the subject, Mr. Nicholson was requested to see Mr. Jarrold, 
with a view to considering any proposal he might make. 
The Hon. Secretary read his Report as Delegate to the 
corresponding Societies’ Committee of the Brit. Assoc, held 
in London on 25th and 26th October. Mr. G. H. Gurney 
exhibited two Flying-Foxes, or fruit-eating Bats, from 
E. Africa. Mr. W. H. Burrell, F.L.S., read a paper on 
“ Goodyera repens ,” Mr. A. Bennett sent one on “ Naias 
marina and Chara stelligera in Norfolk,” and Rev. R. B. Caton 
a list of dates of arrival of migratory birds. 
25th January, 1910. Mr. J. E. Balls exhibited a bar of 
iron enclosed and grown round by a portion of a yew trunk, 
Mr. W. G. Clarke some fossils from Hoxne, etc., and Mr. Burrell 
a curiously carved boulder. Mr. W. A. Nicholson gave 
particulars as to progress made by the “ Flora of Norfolk ” 
Committee. 
25th February. Mr. W. G. Clarke read a paper on “ The 
Commons of Norfolk ” ; Mr. A. Patterson a biographical 
sketch of the late Mr. E. T. Booth ; Mr. J. H. Gurney, F.L.S., 
some Notes on the recent irruption of Crossbills in Norfolk ; 
and Mr. A. W. Preston’s “ Meteorological Notes for 1909 ” 
were taken as read. 
The President then delivered an Address on 
“THE ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF THE 
NERVOUS SYSTEM IN ANIMALS,” 
of which the following is an abstract : — 
At the outset Dr. Thomson laid no claim to be a naturalist 
in the ordinary acceptation of the term, but explained that 
as an old pupil of Huxley he had been early imbued with 
a love of biology, which is the foundation of all work in natural 
history, without a knowledge of which no one can hope 
