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TYNESIDE NATURALISTS FIELD CLUB. 
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ADDRESS TO THE MEMBERS OF THE TYNESIDE 
NATURALISTS’ FIELD CLUB, 
READ BY THE PRESIDENT, THE REV. WILLIAM GREENWELL, M.A., 
AT THE SEVENTEENTH ANNIVERSARY MEETING, HELD ON THURS- 
DAY, THE 19TH OF MARCH, 1863. 
GEeNTLEMEN—I feel that some apology is due from me, in ad- 
dressing you as President of a Naturalists’ Field Club, when I 
can lay claim to no greater acquaintance with any branch of 
Natural History than is possessed by most persons of education 
at the present day. } 
My apology is, that I address you as an archeologist, for it 
is to my knowledge on matters connected with that science, that 
I owe the distinguished honour of having been elected President 
of so flourishing a society as the Tyneside Naturalists’ Field _ 
Club. It may at first sight seem strange, that as Naturalists 
you should have elected an archeologist for your President, but 
the anomaly is more apparent than real, for like all other 
Naturalists’ Field Clubs, the Tyneside has always devoted much 
consideration to subjects connected with the antiquities of the 
district. And, indeed, such a conjunction of subjects for investi- 
gation could scarcely be avoided, when we visit, at almost all our 
meetings, places as remarkable for the handy-work of man, as 
for the natural products with which man works and makes. 
And I must here be allowed most strongly to impress upon our 
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