ADDRESS. 
Read by the President , Mr. J. H. Gurney, F.Z.S., to the 
Members of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists’ Society, 
at their Thirtieth Annual Meeting , held at the Norwich 
Castle- Museum, March 28th, 1800. 
Ladies and Gentlemen — I need not say that I was greatly 
complimented by being for the third time elected President of the 
Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists’ .Society, which in the thirty years 
of its existence has done so much to foster a taste for Natural 
History in this county, having incontestably achieved as great 
things as any local Society of its kind in England. 
It is impossible not to congratulate ourselves on the Society's 
extreme good fortune when the Norfolk and Norwich Library 
was reduced almost to ashes on August 1st, in not losing any of our 
scientific books, which were in a room by themselves. The back 
stock of ‘ The Transactions ’ which were elsewhere, unfortunately, 
were so much damaged that Volume 2 is now out of print, and of 
Vols. 1, 3 and 4, there are not many left, a loss to be regretted 
from many points of view, and only in some degree compensated 
by the payment of L3S 11s. 6d. insurance money. 
For additions to our shelves last year the thanks of the Society 
are again due to Professor Newton, Mr. G. F. Buxton, Mr. H. G. 
Barclay, Colonel Feilden, and Mr. Butterfield ; but these donations 
are at present retained by the Honorary Secretary, until accommoda- 
tion is found for them. 
In rebuilding the Library, it is believed the Library Committee 
will be able to assign the Naturalists' Society a larger room for our 
valuable books, which have been crowded for lack of space, and 
for their scientific value deserve better treatment than to be stowed 
away in a confined space. 
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