56 PRESIDENTS ADDRESS. 



a paper was read by Mr. R. Carr, " On the EfFects of the Severe 

 Winter of 1854-5 on Evergreen Vegetation in the North of Eng- 

 land;" and one by Mr. Oliver, "On the Growth in Diameter of 

 Dicotyledonous Stems." A paper was read at the Seventh Even- 

 ing Meeting by Mr. J. Hogg, "On the Salmonidae and the 

 Chance of re-peopling the Northern Rivers by their Artificial 

 Propagation." 



While I have to congratulate the Society on its flourishing 

 condition, and the increased number of its members, I have also 

 to deplore the loss to it and to science of one of its oldest and 

 most valued associates, Mr. Fryer, of whom the following notice, 

 communicated by Mr. W. Hutton, will be read with interest : — 

 *' Joseph Harrison Fryer died on Christmas Day, 1855 (his birth- 

 day), aged 77. In the year 1826, Mr. Fryer went to South 

 America, to take charge of one of the magnificent projects for 

 mining the precious metals. The Company was a failure ; but 

 he remained in the country for three years, where he turned his 

 knowledge of Natural History to good account. It was at this 

 period the Shells of South America first attracted the attention 

 of Naturalists, and Mr. Fryer was one of the earliest, if not the 

 first, discoverer of several species since well known. With the 

 stores he collected he returned to England in 1829, and became 

 an active promoter of the Natural History Society, and was an 

 early member of this Society of the Tyneside Field Naturalists." 



The following gentlemen have been elected Members of the 

 Club, since the Anniversary, May 23, 1855 : — 



At the BoTHAL Meeting, June 11, 1855 — Revds. Henry Hop- 

 wood and Edward Lacey ; Messrs Edward Spoor, Charles Gib- 

 son, M.D., A. M. Dunn, George Finch, Thomas Stokoe, John 

 Hopper, R. W. Swinburne. 



At the Rowland's Gill Meeting, June 29 — Mr. Charles 

 Wilson. 



At the Chillingham Meeting, July 24 — Rev. T. H. Pot- 

 tenger ; Messrs G. T. Smith, J. B. Simpson, W. H. Engledew, 

 W. H. Hills, W. H. Pearson, James Robson, William Oliver, 

 W. A. Temperley. 



