8 PRESIDENTS ADDRESS. 



of Zantholinus tricolor, amongst vegetable refuse, and, on the 19tli 

 of July, caught a worn specimen of the Humming-bird, Hawk- . 

 moth ( Macroglossa stellatorum) feeding on some verbenas in the 

 garden, at Long Benton. Such is the very sorry account of my 

 insect doings, in 1850. I can only hope that hetter fortune awaits 

 me in 1851." 



Mr. Alder has obtained from the stomach of a Codfish, at Cul- 

 lercoats, a species of Cuttlefish, new to Great Britain. It is the 

 Sepia biserialis of Verany, and probably synonymous with the 

 Sepia Rupellaria of Ferussac, the bone or gladius of which was 

 found a few years ago on the Irish coast. 



Mr. Albany Hancock declares that only one other Mollusk has 

 been caught in our toils. 



On Ornithology, Mr. John Hancock reports that of the Fulmar 

 (Procellaria glacialis, Linn.), a northern species, a fine specimen 

 was found alive on the coast near Whitburn, on the 11th of October 

 last, by William Hutchinson, fisherman. It was in a feeble state 

 when obtained, and died the following day. That Mr. Charles 

 Adamson, on the 28th of November last, shot, at Prestwick Carr, 

 a female of the Gad wall, [Anas Strepera^ Linn.) This is the first 

 well-attested occurrence of this species in Northumberland. 



The Third Evening Meeting, the final one of the year, was held 

 yesterday evening, in the Museum of the Natural History Society. 

 Though the weather was, unfortunately, again unfavourable, about 

 the usual number of members attended, with several of their ladies. 

 Close attention was given to another part of Mr. Carr's work, 

 " On the Composite Names of Places, chiefly of Anglo-Saxon de- 

 rivation," by which the value of such researches, both in a philo- 

 logical and sethnological sense was amply demonstrated. Mr. 

 Storey read an abstract of his Paper on the Flora of our imme- 

 diate vicinity, and also handed in a notice, by Mr. Albany Han- 

 cock, of the discovery oi Dip>hyllidia lineata, an Infero-branchiate 

 Mollusk, procured by the Rev. G. C. Abbes from the fishermen, 

 at Whitburn. This animal has only, once before, been taken in 

 the British Seas, namely, off" the Shetland Islands. 



Thanks were voted to Mr. Carr and to Mr. Storey for their 

 valuable papers, and the members afterwards examined a beautiful 



