ADDRESS. 
Read by the President , Miss Alice M. Geldart, to the 
Members of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, 
at their Forty -fifth Annual Meeting, held at the Norwich 
Castle Museum, April 28th, 1914. 
Ladies and Gentlemen, 
The membership of the Society is made up of : — 
Honorary Members •• 11 
Life „ 43 
Ordinary ,, 231 
285 
Sixteen new members have been elected, fourteen have resigned, 
and seven have died. 
Six ordinary meetings have been held during the Session, at 
which several papers of interest were read. At the opening 
meeting, in September, Miss E. L. Turner read a paper, 
illustrated with lantern slides, on some of the rarer species 
of birds that nest in the Outer Hebrides, and at this 
meeting, also, Mr. Peake described some flower haunts in 
Norfolk and showed lantern photographs. At the October 
meeting, Mr. W. H. Burrell gave a resume of his notes and 
observations on the Water Fern ( Azolla ) in Norfolk. This 
paper will be found printed, in extenso, in this number of the 
Transactions. At the next meeting, in November, Mr. H. 
Wormald read a paper on the Courtship of Ducks, with some 
notes of hybrids bred by him at his game farm at East 
Dereham. This paper is also printed, together with reproduc- 
tions of some original drawings by the author. 
At the January meeting, Mr. Wormald exhibited several skins 
of birds to show albinistic and other variations; Mr. Preston 
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