336 president's address. 



occasion, to have the pleasure of guiding you to som6 of the 

 interesting localities in the neighbourhood of Wallington, near 

 which, as you are probably aware, are the only stations, hithei'to 

 discovered in England, of two rare plants, Linncea horealis and 

 Nuphar Tninima ; and, in the same neighbourhood, were dis- 

 covered the first recorded English specimens of native sulphur in 

 minute crystals, and of garnets, in the mill-stone grit, indicating, 

 with its other constituents, quartz, mica, and felspar, the source 

 from which that rock was derived, viz. from the disintegration 

 of granite, and the dispersion by water of its fragments. — Vide 

 "Brewster's Edinburgh Journal of Science," October, 1826, 

 p. 375; " Hodgson's Northumberland," part 2, vol. 1, pp. 292-329. 



Members Elected since the Anniversar:? Meeting, held 

 March 30th, 1853. 



At the Washington Meeting, May 27th, 1853. — Rev. James 

 Ered. Turner, University College, Durham; Messrs Joseph 

 Swan, George Belt, Henry Turner, John Warwick, New- 

 castle ; Charles Ferguson Davie, Castle Eden Parsonage ; 

 William Dickson, Alnwick ; Edward Boyd, Urpeth ; John 

 Moor, College Green, Durham ; Francis Blackbird, South 

 Hylton ; J P. Mulcaster, Blaydon ; William Hutton, West 

 Hartlepool ; Septimus Peacock, Alexandria, Egypt. 



At Alston, June 16th. — Joseph Dinning, Langley Hill Top, 

 Haydon Bridge ; Frederick lliiF, M.A., Bishopwearmouth 

 Grange ; William James Young, Eden House, Sunderland. 



In Teesdale, July 20th, 21st, and 22d. — P. K. Lamb, Newcastle 



At Bardon Mill and the Northumberland Lakes, August 17th. 

 — William Crighton, Newcastle ; William Edward Wilcox, 

 Whitburn. 



March 15th, 1854.— Messrs Clifford Crighton, D. H. Goddard, 

 C. E. Ellison, and R. W. Bleasby, Newcastle ; W. Green, 

 Framwellgate Colliery, Durham. 



