30 NEW MEMBERS. 
we look at it as philologists, or enquirers into ancient supersti- 
tions, which are in fact religions. In such names records of facts, 
forgotten or overlooked by history, linger for centuries, traces of 
languages, now unknown or unspoken, remain to testify, to the 
present race, of the occupation of the land by another and earlier 
one, and the field which a fairy tenanted, or the lane down which 
a brownie was wont to pass, may serve to give us a clue to a 
form of faith, which influenced the heart, and regulated, as a 
governing principle, the community, ages before the Christian 
faith was promulgated, or even before our ancestors had left their 
far off eastern home. 
It only remains for me to congratulate our Club on its flourish- 
ing condition, to wish it success in its valuable and pleasurable 
labours, and to thank most sincerely its members for the enviable 
honour they paid me, when they elected me the President of the 
Tyneside Naturalists’ Field Club. 
Catalogues of various branches of our local Natural History 
are in preparation by different members of our Society ; among 
which the following may be mentioned. Some of them, it is 
hoped, will be ready for the printer at a very early date. 
Mammalia, by H. F. Mennell and V. R. Perkins, 
Hymenoptera, by T. J. Bold. 
Carboniferous Fossils, by R. Howse. 
Foramenifera, by H. B. Brady. 
Crustacea, by Rey. A. M. Norman. 
Fresh Water Algea, by G. 8. Brady. 
Mempers ELECTED SINCE THE LAST ANNIVERSARY. 
The following gentlemen have been elected members of the 
Club during the past year :— 
At the Anniversary Merrtine:—Henry George, John Wil- 
son, and J. Stanger, of Newcastle; Mariner Redmayne, Tyne- 
mouth; Edgar J. Meynell, W. R. Fitzgerald, R. N. Robson, 
and the Rev. E. Greatorex, M.A., Durham; the Rev. G. R. 
Bigge, M.A., Ovingham; and the Rev. J.C. Geikie, Sunderland. 
