ADDRESS. 
Read by the President, Dr. D. G. Thomson, to the Members 
of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists’ Society, at their 
Forty-first Annual Meeting, held at the Norwich Castle- 
Museum, March 29 th, 1910. 
Ladies and Gentlemen — In considering the progress made 
by the Society during the past Session, we are confronted, 
unfortunately, with a longer death-list than usual ; to set off 
against which we have only obtained one new member. 
Four members have resignec By death we have lost the 
following : — W. H. Bidwell, P. Evershed, Thomas Southwell, 
C. A. O. Savill-Onley, Col. F. d’A. Newcome, and F. D. Longe. 
Mr. W. H. Bidwell joined the Society in 1870, and was for 
many years an active f member, having at different times 
filled the offices of Auditor, Hon. Secretary, and President. 
He contributed several papers to the ‘ Transactions.’ He 
was a good photographer, and one of his photographs, that 
of St. Helen’s Swan-pit, was reproduced in the ‘ Transactions ’ 
of 1902-3. He died on 25th April last. 
Mr. P. Evershed, who died in June, 1909, had only been 
resident in Norfolk for a few years. He frequently attended 
the meetings and excursions, and was keenly interested in 
gardening. 
It will be unnecessary for me to dwell on the great loss 
sustained by the death of j Mr. Thomas Southwell, F.Z.S., 
a founder of the Society, and its first Secretary ; as Dr. S. H. 
Long is preparing an obituary notice for the ‘ Transactions,’ 
which will be illustrated by an excellent portrait, it may be 
sufficient to say here that no member had the interests of 
the Society more at heart than he had. As an ornithologist, 
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