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Tliis frontispiece was engraved in consequence of the Com- 

 mittee having phiced at the disposal of the President an engrav- 

 ing to illustrate his Address. I selected the subject in accordance 

 with the feelings which dictated the reference to the distin- 

 guished naturalist and artist. It was drawn on the block by 

 Birket Foster (a native of Tyneside), from a photograph by 

 Worden, and his own sketches, and engraved under his superin- 

 tendence ; and I hope I may be thought justified in referring to 

 the result in terms of satisfaction. 



After some discussion on the tables of the rain-fall, which 

 appeared in the last number of the " Transactions" of the Club, 

 the officers of the Society were re-elected for the remainder of 

 the year, and ten gentlemen w^ere elected members of the Club. 

 The following reports on the subject of microscopes, from the 

 committee and sub-committee, were read and received: — "The 

 committee of the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club, on consider- 

 ing the important aid which the microscope gives to the natural- 

 ist in every department, and the increasing number of those 

 engaged in microscopical pursuits, have, for some time past, had 

 their attention directed to the desirability of increasing the 

 .facilities which the Club offers for microscopical investigation 

 among its members, and for the interchange of information on 

 the subject, so that the microscopists of the district may be 

 brought together through the medium of this Club. With these 

 objects in view, a sub-committee has been appointed to take 

 such steps as they may see fit for attaining these objects. The 

 sub-committee so appointed, consisting of Dr. Embleton, Messrs. 

 A. Hancock, H. B. Brady, and H. T. Mennell, suggested that 

 members should be invited to bring to the Evening Meetings 

 any microscopical preparations with which they may be engaged, 

 especially such as are illustrative of the natural history of the 

 two counties which border the Tyne. That, in order to give a 

 definite character to each meeting, it is desirable that some 

 member should deliver a short discourse on a scries of prepara- 

 tions illustrative of any one subject; that a Microscopical Soiree, 

 of a more general character, be held once every year, and that, in 

 order to attain these objects, a small Microscopical sub-commit- 



