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the Greta and the Tees, with a visit to the romantic grounds of 
Rokeby. 
THe SeventH AnD Last Mererinea of the season was held, 
as is usual, at Marsden, and was very well attended, in spite 
of the advanced season of the year. 
The Club is now accommodated for its winter meetings in the 
new rooms belonging to the Natural History Society, and a plan 
for effecting a partial union between the two societies will be laid 
before the present meeting. 
The evening meetings have been well attended, and many 
papers of importance have been read and discussed. But some- 
thing more than mere attendance is required to insure the 
permanent success of the society. Mere dry catalogues of 
objects will hardly attract members, but well digested papers on 
the habits of animals, and especially on the lower forms of animal 
life inhabiting the seas, are always interesting. The working 
members of so large a society should not be few. There is no 
greater mistake than to imagine that a regular course of study 
is required to become a Naturalist. The taste for the study of 
Natural History arises imperceptibly, it is fostered by familiarity 
with natural objects; and the more knowledge we obtain of the 
operations of nature, the more do we wish to acquaint ourselves 
with the minuter forms of animal life. ‘The microscope has 
opened a new and a wondrous field of investigation, and among 
so many members of the Club, there are, doubtless, several 
who are only deterred by bashfulness from becoming contributors 
to the ‘‘ Transactions.” At the present moment assistance is 
greatly needed to render as perfect as possible the lists of the 
Fauna and Flora of this neighbourhood, now in course of pre- 
paration by members of the Club. 
The following are the Catalogues now being got ready :— 
Crustacea, by the Rev. A. M. Norman. 
Echinodermata, by Mr. George Hodge. 
Birds, by Mr. J. Hancock. 
Foraminifera, Mr. H. B. Brady. 
fresh Water Alge, by Mr. G. 8. Brady. 
Annelida, do. 
Flowering Plants, by Mr. J. G. Baker of Thirsk. 
