A.JJUFMHSS. 
Read by the President, Mr. Arthur W. Preston, F. R. Met. Soc., 
to the Member* of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalist s’ 
Society, at their Twenty-ninth Annual Meeting, held at the 
Norwich Castle- Museum, March 20th, 1898. 
Ladies and Gentlemen — Twelve months having elapsed since 
you did me the honour of electing me to fill this chair, it now 
falls upon me to address to you a few remarks before vacating it. 
Speaking first of the financial position of the Society, it will 
bo seen from the balance sheet that it continues to be satisfactory. 
The income and expenditure of the year have been nearly equal, 
while the Life Membership Fund shows a substantial reserve of 
nearly £100 in the Post Cilice Savings Bank, after paying £10 to 
the current account for working expenses. 
The number of members remains nearly the same as at the 
commencement of the year. Five have died, two have resigned, 
and six new members have been elected ; one of the latter, the 
Hon. W. Rothschild, being a life member. Of those removed by 
death, the first was Sir Edward Newton, of whom, I understand, 
Mr. Southwell has prepared a special memoir which will be 
published in our ‘ Transactions.’ 
Mr. T. J. Mann died at his residence, Hyde Hall, Sawbridgeworth, 
Herts, on 25th August, 1897. He was the head of the brewery 
firm of Mann, Crossman, and Paulin, and the eldest son of the late 
Mr. Thomas Mann of Thelveton Hall, Norfolk. An ardent lover 
of hawking, he established a falconry at Hyde Hall, the seat of 
the Earls of Roden, on his acquiring a lease of that property. 
His valuable paper, delivered to the Society in 1889, on “ Hawks : 
how obtained and trained” (Trans. Norfolk and Norwich Nat. Soc. 
vol. iv. p. 650), will long be remembered. 
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