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Thompson ; and one by Mr. George Tate. These twelve new species 

 belong to the seven following natural Orders, viz : —to Hyperi- 

 cacese, one ; to Leguminifera3, one ; to Halorageas, three ; to Amen- 

 tiferae, one; to Fluviales, four; to Jiincacese, one; to Filices, one. 

 Besides these discoveries, many new Habitats of our rarer plants 

 have been added by the above named gentlemen. Hence our local 

 Botany has been materially advanced. 



ThuS; then, I am enabled to state, that, during its five year's 

 existence, the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club has contributed 

 to our Zoology, one new Order, and eighty Species, of which twenty- 

 nine are new altogether; eight new to Great Britain; and forty- 

 three new, within the range of our researches ; and it must be borne 

 in mind that in this summary, the Class of Insects is omitted, since 

 no definite report of the numerous discoveries of Insects, has been 

 received. 



To our local Botany, the Club, as above stated, has contributed 

 twelve new species. 



In general Geology, it must be confessed that our observations 

 have fallen short of discovery ; nevertheless, the Club has made 

 itself more or less familiar with several of the most important 

 features of the two counties ; thus, the neighbourhood of Shotley 

 Bridge, and of Allenheads, in which the lower members of the 

 Carboniferous series are well seen, have been explored. Mr. 

 Hutton, in the former locality, having kindly acted as our chief 

 informant ; Mr. Sopwith, in the latter, having been our instructor 

 and hospitable entertainer. 



At the former place, the Mountain Limestone, the lowest member 

 of the Carboniferous group, covered first by the Millstone Grit, 

 there of great thickness, and next by the lower strata of the true 

 Coal Measures, was, with its concomitants, well observed in section, 

 along the banks of the Derwent. In this district, both coal and 

 lead are wrought, the latter even in the Millstone Grit. 



At the latter locality, was found again the Mountain Limestone, 

 with its metalliferous veins ; but thrown up here to the west, by 

 the Burtree-Ford Dyke, which runs nearly north and south, and 

 bounded to the north by the Great Stublick Dyke, which, running 

 nearly east and west, throws down the Coal Measures to the north. 



