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PRESIDENT S ADDRESS. 
Tlie other members whose loss we have to deplore are 
Mr. William Birkbeck, Mr. R. Blake, and the Rev. H. T. Griffith, 
the two former of whom had been members of our Society for a 
great number of years. 
We have to thank Dr. Lowe, Mr. J. H. Gurney, Mr. G. F. 
Buxton, Mr. H. G. Barclay, and others for donations of books, 
periodicals, &c., received from them during the past year, forming 
valuable additions to the Society’s Library. 
Sir Francis Boileau in his address from this chair last year 
alluded to the fact that the excursions of the Society, which at one 
time formed so pleasurable a feature in the year's programme, had 
almost fallen into abeyance. I therefore felt it my duty to do 
what little I could during my year of office to attempt to revive 
these enjoyable meetings, and being of opinion that one good 
excursion only should be attempted instead of two or three small 
ones, and on the principle that “ union is strength,” knowing that 
our kindred Society, the Norwich Science Gossip Club, had also 
experienced a similar falling off at its field meetings, I ventured to 
suggest that the Society and Club should combine and make an 
excursion to a place of interest during the summer. 
This suggestion proved a great success, and on June 17th, 
a party of over thirty members from the joint societies met at 
Thorpe Railway Station, and proceeded to North Walsham, where 
they took conveyances to Mundesley, now a rising watering-place. 
A very enjoyable walk was there taken, in the best of weather, 
along the beach to Trimingham, under the escort of that 
distinguished geologist, Mr. F. W. Harmer, F.G.S., who was good 
enough to undertake to point out to the members the various 
objects of interest to be found along the coast section exposed in 
this interesting locality. At the outset, Mr. Harmer drew our 
attention to the well-known post-glacial deposit, which was 
examined somewhat minutely, as was also the pre-glacial Fresh- 
water bed, from which Mr. Clement Reid obtained specimens of 
the Arctic plants Salix polaris and Betula nana. Mr. Harmer 
pointed out that the fossil bed in this neighbourhood contained 
a great quantity of mammalian remains ; none, however, were 
