ADDRESS. 
Read by the President, Mr. Robert Gurney, M.A., to 
the Members of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists’ 
Society, at their Forty-fourth Annual Meeting, held at 
Norwich Castle Museum, April 29th, 1913. 
Ladies and Gentlemen, 
I HAVE now shortly to review the progress of the Society 
during the past year. As concerns our numbers, we have lost 
during the year two members by death, five by resignation 
and three have been removed in accordance with Rule VII. 
As against these losses we can set 16 new members, showing 
a nett gain of six. The total membership is now 285. The 
two members whose loss by death I regret to record are the 
Rev. J. Landy Brown and Professor Robert Collett. The 
Rev. J. Landy Brown was born in Norwich in 1814, and was 
Chaplain at Norwich Castle from 1852 till 1889. He was one 
of the original members of the Society and, though he took no 
active part in its work of recent years, he was always keenly 
interested in scientific matters. 
Professor Robert Collett, who died on January 27th, was 
an Honorary Member of our Society. He came of an English 
family which settled in Norway at the end of the 17th century. 
He was appointed Professor of Zoology at the University of 
Christiania in 1884, and was the author of many papers on the 
Vertebrate fauna of Norway. Plis attention was chiefly 
devoted to birds, but he lived to complete last year his great 
work on the Norwegian Mammals. 
Six meetings of the Society have been held during the 
Session, at each of which papers of interest were read. As 
these papers will be published in the Transactions, it is 
VOL. IX. 
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