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Read by the, President , Sir Francis G. M. Boileau, Bart 
F.Z.S., F.S.A., to the, Members of the Norfolk and Norwich 
Naturalists' Society, at their Twenty-eighth Annual Meeting , 
held at the Norwich Castle,- Museum, April 6th, 1807. 
Ladies and Gentlemen — On vacating the chair to which you 
elected me twelve months since, in accordance with the usual 
practice pursued by your Presidents, I wish to take a brief review 
of the Society’s work during that period, and I think we may 
congratulate ourselves on having had a fairly prosperous year. 
Financially, as you have heard from our Treasurer, we are in 
a good position. We commenced the year with 264 members, of 
whom we have lost by death and other causes 20, but have elected 
12 new members, leaving tbe present number 2o6. A considerable 
number of valuable additions have been made to the library by 
presentation and exchange; chief amongst the donors are Sir J. D. 
Hooker, Professor Newton, Messrs. II. G. Barclay and G. F. Buxton, 
and Colonel Feiluen. The Library is steadily increasing and has 
become of considerable value ; the Committee recommend the 
transfer of £10 from the Life Membership Fund for binding, 
which has got somewhat into arrear. 
I think it is regrettable that the Excursions, which were formerly 
an attractive feature in the programme of our Society, and which 
indeed you will find specially enumerated amongst its “ objects,” 
should of late have fallen almost entirely into abeyance. During 
the past year the members of the Society have not had a single 
outing together. Now when we consider how interesting these 
field meetings are, how useful they are in promoting friendly inter- 
course between the members, and in keeping alive the remembrance 
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