PRESIDENT S ADDRESS. 
11 
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It is evident that the husband died first, and that the blank 
spaces were left in order that the date of the wife’s death 
might be filled in when it occurred. Many similar instances 
will he found. 
III.—Near the last inscription is a small quadrangular 
plate, 12in. by 8in., bearing the following inscription in 
Roman letters:— 
I AM SURE THAT MY REDEEMER 
LIVETU AND THOUGH WoRMES 
DESTROY THIS BODYE YET I 
SHALL SEE GOD IN MY FLESH. 
Here lyeth the body of William Beck 
of Aftley whoe departed this life 
March 21 An 0 Domini 1623 
and hath giuen yerely vi s viii d 
to the saide parish of 
Astley for euer. 
(To be continued.) 
BIRMINGHAM NATURAL HISTORY AND MICRO¬ 
SCOPICAL SOCIETY. 
PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS.* 
BY T. A. WALLER, B.A., B.SC. 
When, twelve months ago, you did me the honour of 
electing me to a second term of the presidency of this 
society, the great kindness which I had already received in 
the discharge of the duties of the office left only one aspect 
of the situation which appeared at all formidable, which was 
that when the year had expired I should have to deliver 
a second “ retiring address,” and, my choice of subjects 
* Transactions of the Birmingham Natural History and Micro¬ 
scopical Society, Read April 28th, 1885. 
