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TYNESIDE NATURALISTS' FIELD CLUB. 



ADDRESS TO THE MEMBERS OF THE TYNESIDE 

 NATURALISTS' FIELD CLUB, 



READ AT THE NINTH ANNIVERSARY MEETING, HELD IN THE COM- 

 MITTEE ROOM OF THE LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OP 

 NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, ON WEDNESDAY, THE 23D OF MAY, 1855. 

 BY THE PRESIDENT, THOMAS SOPWITH, ESQ., F.R.S., F.G.S., MEMBER 

 OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF FRANCE, &c. &C. 



Gentlemen — In conforming to tlie duty wliicli now devolves 

 upon me, of addressing you, at the close of my year of office, as 

 President of this Society ; I beg, in the first instance, to express 

 the obligation which I feel by your having made a selection 

 which I cannot but value as an expression of your good opinion, 

 and I much regret that the extensive mining arrangements which 

 occupy my time and attention at a distance of more than forty 

 miles from this town, have prevented my having the privilege 

 and enjoyment of attending your meetings during the past year, 

 except on one occasion. 



To those who consider this Club as an associated family of 

 observers, willing and desirous to obtain and disseminate in- 

 formation — willing and desirous also to meet at stated times, 

 and to travel in company to interesting localities — it will be 

 evident that the general objects of such a Society must be greatly 



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