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Dean of Fincham. Greatly interested in educational matters, he 
will long be remembered by some of our younger members on the 
occasions when he acted as examiner in the King Edward \ I. and 
the Girls’ High School, where his bright and sympathetic bearing 
removed half the terrors of the examination, and put all at their 
ease, thereby obtaining the best results. Mr. Du Port contributed 
to our Society two papers in 1880, one on “ The Fungoid Diseases 
of Cereals,” the other on some “Pare Fungi found near Mattishall,” 
and a third in 1803, on a “ Remarkable appearance of Fungi in a 
Field at Ryston, in West Norfolk,” all of which will be found 
printed in the ‘Transactions.’” 
Mr. William Borrer, who died at Cowfold, Sussex, in October last, 
at the advanced age of eighty-four, became a member of our Society 
in 1881. lie published ‘The Birds of Sussex,’ a substantial volume 
of 385 pages, with illustrations, embodying the observations of 
a life-time, and the notes of many friends, only a few years before 
his death. On the few occasions on which he visited Norfolk, he 
manifested great interest in the Museum, regretting that his own 
ornithological collection had not been equally well preserved at 
Cowfold from the ravages of moths. 
Possibly it will bo in your memory that in a former presidential 
address I lamented the growing scarcity of the rarer denizens of our 
Broads, and after seventeen years the subject presents itself still 
more forcibly to my mind, and there is one bird above all others 
whose decrease every true ornithologist laments, the Bearded 
Titmouse. It would make some amends if this were spared to us 
for all our other losses, though we can ill spare the Bittern, the 
Marsh Harrier, and the Ruff, which like the Avocet, the Black-tailed 
God wit, and the Black Tern are gone, it is feared, never to return. 
With the extinction of the Ruff (last nest in 1889 or 1890) Norfolk 
loses fourteen breeding species, or if the Crane, Grey Lag Goose, 
Eared Grebe, Savi’s Warbler and Little Bittern be reckoned, nineteen 
species which once bred within its limits. To these may, perhaps, 
be added the Hobby, there being no authenticated nest since those 
which Mr. Norgate found several years ago in Foxley Wood, where, 
at different times, there have been several nests. On the other 
