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ADDRESS TO THE MEMBERS OF THE TYNESIDE 

 NATURALISTS' FIELD CLUB, 



READ AT THE ELEVENTH ANNIVERSARY MEETING, HELD ON SATUR- 

 DAY, APRIL, 4, 1857. By JOHN HOGG, Esq., • m.a., f.r.s., 



F.L.S., F.C.P.S., «tc., PRESIDENT. 



Gentlemen — In taking the cliair at tliis Eleventh Anniversary 

 Meeting of the Tyneside Naturalists' Society, allow me to offer 

 to you my warmest thanks for the honour you have conferred 

 upon me, during the past year, of being your President. 



In accordance with the annual custom, I have now, as your 

 chief — who am about to resign the agreeable duties which at- 

 tend upon that office to another and a more able head — the 

 pleasure of making a few remarks upon some of the discoveries, 

 and other subjects, connected with Natural History, and of laying 

 before you the proceedings of the Society, during the year of my 

 office. 



Many of the members present will recollect sharing with me 

 the gratification experienced in hearing a very important and 

 interesting paper ujDon the Zoophytes discovered on the coasts of 

 Northumberland and Durham, which was read to us, by one of 

 our Vice-Presidents, Mr. Joshua Alder, at our last Anniversary 

 Meeting, on May 15. 



This paper, in addition to its having been written with the 

 usual care and accuracy of that distinguished Naturalist, was 

 illustrated by some well executed drawings. In it, the enumera- 

 tion of the species, amounting to 164, including some new forms 

 of the Zoophytes which have been found on our coasts up to 

 the present time, will, I am certain, prove very complete and 

 valuable. 



Having myself formerly — I now regret to say, full thirty 

 summers have since past and gone — paid some attention to this 

 most engaging, though difficult branch of Natural History, I 

 gave to the world my short, and imperfect List of Polijparia, or 



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