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walk under his guidance. They went direct to Dunstan- 

 borough Castle, nothing worthy of particular note occurring 

 by the way ; and after wandering a while around the ruins, 

 one party tarried to examine some geological phenomena of 

 interest, explained to them by Mr. Tate, while another moiety 

 proceeded to the gardens and grounds of Howick, distant 

 about three miles. The party were sufficiently gratified by 

 their walk, and returning by a different route, they reached 

 Embleton in time for dinner ; and here the geological party 

 rejoined the mess, bringing with them some interesting fossils, 

 which were freely divided amongst such members as take an 

 interest in that department. 



Dinner over, and the prosperity of the Club toasted as 

 usual, a letter was read from Mr. Archibald Jerdon, commu- 

 nicating the discovery of Ornithogalum luteum, near Jed- 

 burgh. Mr. Broderick gave a notice that on the 9th May a 

 fine specimen of the adult male Montagu harrier was taken 

 in a trap near Alnwick. After some further talk, the party 

 proceeded to the parsonage, where they were entertained by 

 the hospitable Rector, and there they dallied till the time 

 arrived for each to depart on his own way. 



July came, but with it no meeting, for natui-alists are 

 citizens as well as other men, and have their duties to the 

 commonwealth ; and the general election, in which many of 

 our members took a zealous part, completely engrossed the 

 thoughts and attention of the Club. 



Gentlemen, — I now resign into your hands the Presidency 

 of this Club, with an unfeigned sense of your partial kind- 

 ness in electing me to it a second time, and of my own want 

 of desert to fill so distinguished an office. 



When I recollect that we number amongst our associates 

 such men as Sir William Jardine,* Mr. Selby,f and Dr. 

 Johnston,! who have severally, by their ingenious labours, 



• Anthor of the " Birds of Great Britain and Ireland," 3 vols. ; Illustrations 

 of Ornithology, &c., &c. 



t Author of the " Illustrations of British Ornithology ;" A Historj- of British 

 Forest Trees, &c., &c. 



X Author of the Histories of British Zoophytes, and of the British Sponges 

 and Corallines, &c. 



