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collection oi Algce and Corallines kindly offered for their inspec- 

 tion by Miss Errington. Numerous examples of dried British 

 flowering Plants, and of British and Foreign Ferns, contributed 

 by Mr. Daniel Oliver, jun., and myself, were laid on the tables. 

 Several important illustrated works on Natural History, were 

 exhibited, and a very agreeable Naturalist's Soiree was spent. 



The annual report of our meetings having now been brought 

 up, let us see what has resulted from our five years' association. 

 The Club was founded in 1846, and since that time it has printed 

 five parts of Transactions, forming a goodly volume of 438 pages, 

 with eight copperplate -. This volume, in addition to the account of 

 the foundation, and the rules of the Club, notices of the various 

 Field Meetings, included in the President's annual Addresses, list 

 of Members, and Index, contains sixteen original Papers, and three 

 Catalogues of certain portions of the Fauna of the district; namely, 

 of the Mollusca; of the Insects, Part L, and of the Permian Fossils, 

 with a notice of the Magnesian Limestone district. Of the sixteen 

 Papers, ten are on Zoology, two on Botanical subjects, three on 

 Geology, and one on local Glossology. Beside the above valuable 

 contents, will be found sixteen abstracts or notices only, of other in- 

 teresting communications on various branches of Natural History. 



Over and above this printed Volume, the Club has in hand, 

 ready for the press, a further large portion. of the Catalogue of 

 Insects, and the following papers, namely : — • 



Parts II. and III, of the local Glossology. 



Abstract of a Paper on the Anatomy of Doris. 



On the short Sun Fish. 



On the Old English or Black Bat. 



An Enumeration of Plants growing within five miles of New- 

 castle. 



Notice of the discovery of the Mollusk, Diphyllidia lineata. 

 These, with the present Address, will probably occupy, of our 

 second volume, two parts, the printing of which will come under 

 the consideration of a Committee ; but it is to be hoped, that ere 

 long, they will be in the hands of our members. 



It is due to the kindly feeling of one of my predecessors in this 

 Chair, that I should here mention his handsome offer of bearing 



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