26 PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS. 
Newcastle this year, and Messrs. Mennell and Tristram were 
deputed to convey this invitation to the Association at the 
meeting in 1862, at Cambridge. This year Newcastle is to be 
honoured by the presence of that distinguished body, and I am 
sure that it will be the study of all our members to do what lies 
in their power, to further the interests and objects of the Associa- 
tion, during its visit to Newcastle. Seven new members were 
elected at the Ferryhill meeting. 
Tue Srxtu ayo Last Firtp Meerrine was held on October 
24th at Marsden. The members assembled at the North Pier, 
Sunderland, and walked along the coast by Roker and Spotty’s 
Hole. Near this place some curious nodular beds of limestone 
were examined and explained by the Rev. G.C. Abbes. Thence 
to Whitburn, where the remains of a submerged forest are visible 
at low water, but from the state of the tide, the members were 
unable on this occasion to see it. From Whitburn the coast as 
far as Marsden was explored, with its very interesting geological 
features. Tea was drunk at Peter Allan’s at Marsden Rock, 
and afterwards the Rev. G. C. Abbes delivered an able and 
lengthy address on the geology of the district, in which he made 
special mention of a titaniferous sand, which he had observed 
along the coast, and which somewhat resembles the rich steel 
sands of New Zealand. 
At this meeting five new members were elected. 
I have given a hasty, and I fearit may be, at the same time, 
a tedious account of our several field meetings last year; for when 
the various incidents and objects noticed on our out-of-door 
expeditions have to be related, and when the sunshine and shade 
of the scene itself are wanting, it is rare not to become tedious 
and dull. I have endeavoured, however, to intersperse the dry 
relation, with a few stray notes, here and there, which may in 
some imperfect way have added an interest, if not a liveliness, to 
the narrative. To those who were present at our several meetings, 
it may serve to recal some of the pleasures of the most delightful 
days we spent, but I cannot hope that it will give, to those who 
had the ill luck to be absent, anything, which can even imper- 
fectly shadow forth what we saw and enjoyed. 
