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TYNESIDE NATUEALISTS^ FIELD CLUB. 



ADDRESS TO THE MEMBERS OF THE TYNESIDE 

 NATURALISTS' FIELD CLUB, 



READ AT THE TWELFTH ANNIVERSARY MEETING, HELD ON FRIDAY, 

 THE 29TH OCTOBER, 1858, BY THE PRESIDENT, WILLIAM KELL, 

 ESQ., F.S.A. 



Gentlemen — I accepted the" office of President of this Club for 

 the special purpose of endeavouring to get its pecuniary affairs 

 put into a more satisfactory state; and although that object had 

 not been effected when the year of my presidency expired, I am 

 glad to say that it has since been accomplished by kind assist- 

 ance ; that those accounts which presented an accumulating 

 difficulty^ and obstacle to the progress of the Club have since 

 been arranged, and that the Treasurer is thereby enabled to 

 lay before this meeting a statement of his accounts which shows 

 the Club to be in a state of pecuniary prosperity. 



This Club was formed on the 25th April, 1846, and at the 

 close of its first lustrum, the gentleman who was then its Pre- 

 sident presented (on the 2 2d March, 1851), in his address, a 



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