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the expense of printing the second part of his paper, "On the 

 Composite Names of Places," &c. This timely aid in our present 

 temporary financial debility, I am sure, the Club will duly appre- 

 ciate, and accept, from Mr. Carr, with an unanimous and cordial 

 vote of thanks. And now that we are escaping our early diffi- 

 culties through such liberality, and the increase of subscriptions, 

 let us and other young Clubs remember, and let older and more 

 influential and dignified societies recollect, that one great means 

 of adding to our usefulness is to keep our finances free from 

 embarrassment. 



From what has been already said, it will appear that, considering 

 our members are, with few exceptions, engaged in professional 

 or commercial affairs, and our district has been previously explored 

 by many able Naturalists, there has been no lack of contributions 

 to our Transactions. Let us, in the next place, ascertain the 

 quality of these contributions, and how they stand the test of 

 public criticism? 



The Literary Gazette, of December 14, 1850, after dwelling on 

 the delight of social Natural History excursions, and holding up 

 Newcastle as a model for the interest she has long taken in Natural 

 History, ends an interesting article thus, " We cannot but here 

 offer our thanks to the Tyneside Club, for the very agreeable and 

 useful volume which this fifth part concludes. Like its forerunners, 

 it contains matter popularly interesting and scientifically valu- 

 able, and we venture to say that these Transactions will occupy 

 an important position in the Natural History literature of our 

 country. We need not say to the Club, go on, we are sure they 

 will, and that they will kindle a spirit of love to science, which 

 will continue in the district in which they now meet. But we say 

 to others, do likewise. Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, Leeds, 

 Sheffield, what are you doing? Forget not, amid the smoke and 

 hubbub of your machinery and commerce, that the making of 

 clothes and tools is not the only end for which man was ordained. 

 Around you, on every side, are the sea, the rivers, the hills, the 

 fields, all teeming with beauty, which to understand and to appro- 

 priate will be to refresh you, and to fit you better for the toils and 

 cares of those pursuits which now — for the wani of breathing time. 



