10 president's address. 



was revisited, and the monument exhibited a recently cut record 

 of the death of his only son, Robert Elliott Bewick. The party 

 then crossed the Tyne to Cherryburn — the birth-place of the his- 

 torian of Birds and Quadrupeds — and were most kindly received 

 by Mr. Ralph Bewick, who was in the engraving establishment 

 upwards of forty years ! and by Mrs. Bewick and her family. A 

 great number of original drawings and fine impressions of engrav- 

 ings, particularly of the blocks which heralded the revival of 

 wood-engraving, were exhibited and examined with much inte- 

 rest, as was the building in which the engraver was born. It 

 ivas a cottage of one story, with thatched roof ; it is no longer 

 used as a dwelling-house, having been converted into a stable, 

 and its place supplied by a comfortable, modern two-storied farm 

 dwelling-house, now occupied by Mr. Ralph Bewick. Behind 

 it is the cherry orchard, through which runs the burn whence 

 the name of the place is derived. 



They next ascended the imposing eminence surmounted by the 

 baronial castle of Prudhoe, which, in 1174, was so nobly and 

 successfully defended by its builder, Odinel de Umfreville, 

 against William the Lion of Scotland ; and which, with the 

 barony, has since descended through a long line of Umfrevilles 

 and a Lucy to the Percies. The present Duke of Northumber- 

 land bore the title of Baron Prudhoe until he attained the duke- 

 dom. Passing round the moat on the west and south sides, 

 whence we had a striking view of the battlements of the keep, 

 we came to the bridge leading to the barbican and gateway 

 tower — remarkably fine and perfect specimens of the castellated 

 architecture of their period. The noble site of the fortress en- 

 hances the interest of its historic recollections. 



They returned to Prudhoe, where, after an excellent dinner at 

 Johnston's, with dessert kindly supplied by Mr. Atkinson, a 

 paper, by Mr. Bold, on " Georyssus pygmceiis, Fabr.," was read ; 

 also, a letter from Mr. T. Dobson, on Microscopic Organisms, 

 observed by him near Hexham. 



Three new members were elected. 



On the 26th November, a Microscopic Soiree was held in 



