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suctions, and especially by the admirable article on " the Fresh 

 Water Bryozoa." 



Repeated and well verified observation of both interior and 

 exterior, must be followed by correct reasoning and careful 

 deduction, and the results recorded by faithful delineation and 

 clear description; and we shall be gratified in finding that, 

 healthful and instructive as our field excursions undoubtedly are 

 the consequent closet studies are more productive of the finer 

 results of science, and more prolific of those higher and purer 

 enjoyments which surely flow from the proper investigation of 

 the unknown things of nature; and thus shall we hope to keep 

 alive, along the banks of our busy Tyne, that love and that study 

 of nature which have long, and not undeservedly, been attributed 

 to the inhabitants of Newcastle. 



Mr. Carr read the concluding part of his paper on the " Com- 

 posite Names of Places" ; after which the following gentlemen were 

 elected members: — George Robinson, M.D., Eldon Square; Capt. 

 Moody, R.E., Carlton Terrace; Mr. J. B. Falconar, jun., Picton 

 House; Mr. Frederick J. Peck, 12, Brandling Place; Mr. Gr. B. 

 Richardson, Clayton Street; Mr. Gr. A, Hutton, Bigg Market; 

 Mr. James Forster, Sedgwick Place, Gateshead; Mr. Thomas 

 Stephens, M.R.C.S., Dockwray Square, North Shields; Rev. Joseph 

 Depledge, Chester-le-Street; and Rev. Cuthbert John Carr, Witton 

 Gilbert. 



The days and places for the Field Meetings were fixed as 

 under : — 



Friday, May 30tk, By well and Riding Mill. 



June 20th, Durham and Finchale. 



Wednesday, Jidy 2?>rd Allenheads. 



■ Aug. 20tli, Staward Peel. 



Friday, Se}^. I2th, Roker and Whitburn. 



Oct. drd, Corbridge and Stagshaw 



