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Natural History in the English Counties. 



Chlbra perfolikta. 

 facclniura Myrtillus. 



fltis IdjE^'a. 



Oxyc6ccus. 

 Callhna vulgciris. 

 White var. of ditto 

 £;rlca Tetralix. 



cinerea. 

 D&phne Laurdola. 

 Polygonum ami^iibiun). 



Hydroplper. 



Bisturta. 

 Pkris quadrifblia. 

 Adoxa Moschatellina. 

 P^rola minor. 

 Sclcr&nthus &nnuus. 

 Saponkria officinalis. 

 Arenaria trin^rvis. 



*erpyllif&lia. 

 Cerastium aqu&ticuro. 

 iy thrum Salickria. 

 Re&^Aa. Ititea. 

 Prdnus Pkdus. 

 Tormentilla rc^ptans. 

 iVTiiphar liitea. 

 Cactus Helianthemum. 

 Aquilfegia vuIgJiris. 

 ylnembne Pulsatilla. 



rhalictrum fl^vum. 

 ^an6nculus Flimmula, 



//ederaceus. 

 Ifelleborus viridis. 

 A'^peta CatJiria. 

 Ferbfena officinalis. 

 Zamium amplexicaule. 

 Galeopsis versicolor. 

 Marriibium vulgare. 

 Leon ".r us Card'iaca. 

 Clinopbdium vulg^ire. 

 Origanum vulg&re. 

 ThJ^mus J'cynos. 



CaTamintha. 

 .Antirrhinum £latlne. 



minus. 

 Camelina safiva. 

 Cardimine amsXra. 

 Turritis glabra. 

 Erbdium cicutkrium. 

 Geranium lilcidum. 



columbinum. 

 /"umflria capreolata. 

 Genista anglica. 



claviculata, 

 ^nth^Mis vulneraria. 

 Ornithopus perpusillus. 

 Astragalus hypoglottis. 



/fyp^rlcum montanum. 

 Carduus niitans. 



MariknMS. 

 B\dens tripartita. 

 JBupat6rJM?w cann^binum. 

 JFrigeron &cris. 

 Tussilago Petasites. 

 Solidkgo VirgaCirea. 

 7'nula dysenterica. 

 Centaurea Scabibsa. 

 O'rchis bifblia. 



pyramidalis, 



mbrio (white var.) 



ustulata. 



viridis. 



con6psea. 

 OV'irys wuscifera. 



rtpifera. 

 Ne6ttia spiralis. 

 Lister« ovata. 

 £pipactis latifblia. 

 f/rtica 6rens. 

 Sagittaria sagiltifblia. 

 Potferium Sanguis6rba. 

 Hydr6charis morsus r&nje. 

 Ophiogl6ssum vulgktum. 

 .Aspldnium Rhia. mur&ria. 



I am, Sir, &c. 

 Dec. 6. 1828. 



Larret hangley. Brom^pton Academy^ near Rotherham, 



NORTHUMBEIILAND. 



Museum of Natural History in Newcastle upon Tyne. — When the Literary 

 and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne was established, thirty- 

 six years ago, the first article in the original scheme of its founders had for 

 its object to investigate the two great natural products of this part of the 

 country — coal and lead. This may, therefore, be considered as having laid 

 the foundation of the museum of which we purpose giving here a brief de- 

 scription. For while many of the papers read at the monthly meetings of 

 the Society had immediate reference to these important subjects, a collection 

 of geological and mineralogical specimens was very early begun. Books, like- 

 wise, connected with natural history, were among the first purchases, when 

 a library was afterwards made an appendage to the Society^ 



The specimens in mineralogy, eonchology, &c., with some coins, and a 

 hortus siccus, which had formed the collection in the possession of the So- 

 ciety, had become, in the course of time, greatly injured and dilapidated for 

 want of suitable accommodations. Of these, two zoological specimens, 

 which had found their way to the museum, may here be mentioned : one 

 was the wombat, the other the duck-billed platypus of New South Wales, 

 sent home, in 1800, by Governor Hunter himself. It is worthy of remark, 

 likewise, that this was the first public notice given in Great Britain of these, 

 at that time, nondescript animals. 



A project for erecting a new building, for the reception of the Society*s 

 rapidly increasing library and other property, had long been entertained ; 

 and in 1814, the preparatory measures were set on foot. In this project a 

 museum had all along been included. It was not, howevei', till the year 

 1 822 that the necessary arrangements were completed, and apartments in 

 the new building planned. By a fortunate coincidence, it happened about 

 this very time that the collection which originally belonged to Marmaduke 

 Tunstall, Esq., of Rycliffe, in the county of York, and which had subse- 

 quently come into the possession of George Allan, Esq., of Blacknell 

 Grange, in the county of Durham, was advertised for public sale. This 

 cabinet, even as a nucleus for a more extended collection, but still more, 

 for reasons to be presently noticed, it was most desirable to have deposited 

 in Newcastle. But though no time was to be lost in the acquisition, the 

 state of the Society's funds, which had been calculated to meet the ex- 

 penses of a building only, presented a formidable difficulty. This, however. 



