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president’s address. 
Mr. Preston, and Mr. Clarke, which will appear in full, and 
Mr. Southwell exhibited the Head of a Musk Ox, which he had 
secured for the Museum, which had been obtained in Greenland, 
and which is of great rarity, very few specimens existing in any 
European Museum. 
The meetings have been well attended, with an average of about 
seventeen, and ladies several times. Two summer excursions have 
taken place, the first on June 23rd, to Castleacre, in conjunction 
with the Science Gossip Club ; and the second on September 1st, to 
Salhouse and Wroxham, with the Yarmouth section of our Society. 
On July 23rd, a scientific conference to promote friendly 
co-operative action between the Natural History Societies of Essex, 
Norfolk and Suffolk was held at Witham in Essex, when our 
Society was ably represented by Mr. Southwell. He expressed himself 
in favour of any movement which should tend to keep together the 
records of the three counties, and Mr. W. Cole and Professor 
Meldola spoke in the same sense, and suggested that an annual 
congress should take place, when papers could be read and subjects 
of mutual interest to Naturalists be debated. Mr. Cole also 
thought that an ‘ East Anglian ’ Natural History publication to 
embody the researches of the three Societies might be set on foot. 
Mr. Miller Christy and Mr. Whitaker also gave their testimony in 
favour of a three-county federation, but a fuller account of the 
congress will be found in ‘The Essex Naturalist’ (p. 360), for 
a copy of which I am indebted to Mr. Southwmll. 
At the Bristol Meeting of the British Association in September, 
Mr. Clement Reid, F.G.S., acted as our delegate on the “ Corres-' 
ponding Societies’ ” Committee. Mr. Reid reports that , “ one 
meeting was taken up with a discussion as to size of publications 
of local Societies, and the form in which reprints should be issued. 
Various complaints were made ; but it turned out, at the end, that 
the offending Societies were comparatively few, and that the 
Norfolk Naturalists were not among the offenders. The second 
meeting was principally devoted to the subject of coast-erosion and 
coastal changes, but no working scheme for the co-operation of 
local observers has yet been formulated.” 
