186 president's address. 



consulted. Also, the beautiful frontispiece to vol. 1, of tliat work, 

 entitled " History Preserving the Monuments of Antiquity," gives 

 a side view of the same venerable edifice. 



On this occasion, Mr. Wailes favoured the Club with reading 

 his " Catalogue of the Lepidopterous Insects of Northumberland 

 and Durham." 



The Fifth and Last Field Meeting took place at Blyth, on 

 the 1st of October. The following gentlemen, eight in all — 

 Messrs John Storey, Edward Mather, Archibald Dunn, Henry 

 Turner, David Wooster, M. J. F. Sidney, the Rev. H. Hop- 

 wood, and the Rev. Mr. Mulcaster, assembled at Cowpen Hall, 

 situate about a mile to the west of Blyth, where they were 

 most hospitably entertained, at breakfast, by M. J. F. Sidney, 

 Esq., one of our active Members. 



The river Blyth enters the sea, between North Blyth and 

 South Blyth. The latter has a small port and a quay, for col- 

 liers^and small vessels, The Bishops of Durham were formerly 

 possessed of the Jura Regalia; and the manor passed, by pur- 

 chase, about two centuries ago, to Col. Thomas Ratcliff, from 

 whom it subsequently came into the possession of Sir M. W. 

 Ridley, Bart. 



The senior Secretary, Mr. Storey, read a paper, by Mr. Daniel 

 Oliver, on " Gonidial Swarming in Vaucheria" ; also, a notice of 

 the discovery, by Mr. Oliver, of Scirpus uniglumis, near Dun- 

 stanborough Castle, and of the same species, at Meggy's Burn, 

 near South Blyth. 



Mr. Storey found Thrincia Jwia, near North Blyth, and Meli- 

 lotus arvensis, in the same locality, to which it had, no doubt, 

 been brought in ballast ; and he exhibited specimens of Juncus 

 maritimus, which he had collected between the High Pans and 

 North Blyth. 



On the Magnesian Limestone, near Sunderland, Mr. Albany 

 Hancock has detected several specimens in flower, of Daphne 

 Mezereum, thus showing that this very pretty plant is not yet 

 lost to the district. 



Mr. Daniel Oliver, Jun., in company with Mr. John Thorn- 

 hill, has observed Sambucus laciniata, near Lumley Castle, and 

 Bosa arvensis, near Washington. 



