ADDRESS. 
Read by the President, Mr. W. M. Crowfoot. F.R.C.S., to the 
Members of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, 
at their Forty-second Annual Meeting, held at the Norwich 
Castle-Museum, April 25 th, 1911. 
Ladies and Gentlemen — It is customary on these occasions 
for the President to pass in review the work done and the 
progress made by the Society during the past session. We 
have added fifteen members to our list, but we have to 
chronicle the loss by death of seven, viz. : — Dr. C. B. 
Plowright, Rev. A. G. Day, Rev. R. M. Gawne, Dr. Sydney 
Ringer, F.R.S., Rev. R. Freeman, Mr. J. E. Balls, and 
Mr. H. Scherren. The first-named, Dr. Plowright, was of 
course well known as a famous fungologist, and was your 
President in 1894-5. He contributed many papers and notes 
to the ‘ Transactions,’ and we hope to have a separate 
obituary notice of his life in the forthcoming part. The 
Rev. A. G. Day, M.A., who died on the 7th of May, 1910, 
at Thorpe, was Senior Fellow of Caius College, Cambridge, 
1847-77, and Rector of Great Melton from 1877-1901. 
Dr. Sydney Ringer, M.D., F.R.C.S., F.R.S., a distinguished 
London physician, who died October 14th, 1910, was born 
in Norwich in 1835. He was educated at a private school 
kept by Mr. Brookes, and afterwards studied at Lhnversity 
College Hospital, with which he was connected during his 
whole life, first as Assistant Physician, then as full Physician, 
and finally as Consulting Physician. He early devoted 
himself to Science, and when only twenty-five years of age 
had a paper on Sound in the ‘ Transactions ’ of the Royal 
Society. His great work was his Handbook of Therapeutics, 
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