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with the very important Catalogue of Phints entrusted to Mr. 

 Storey, who has collected a vast amount of necessary matter. 



Our late Secretary, Mr. Daniel Oliver, jun., F. L. S., is engaged 

 at Kew on several important botanical monographs ; one, on the 

 Indian JJtriculacece, has just appeared in the "Transactions of 

 the Linnsean Society." 



Mr. Thomas Atthey has prepared a large series of sections of 

 rare and curious wood-structure for the Kew Museum. 



Mr. Albany Hancock's valuable paper on the Anatomy of the 

 Brachiopoda has just appeared in the " Transactions of the Royal 

 Society," and he is now engaged in investigations of a similar 

 character on the Anatomy of the Lamellihranclis. 



It is also hoped that Mr. George Tate, F. Gr. S., of Alnwick, 

 will present to the Club a Catalogue of the Mountain Limestone 

 Fossils of Northumberland and Durham. 



Mr. Alder has described two or three new species of Corallines, 

 which will form a supplement to his valuable Catalogue of 

 Zoophytes. 



Mr. Rupert Jones has kindly offered, in conjunction with Mr. 

 J. W. Kirkby, of Sunderland, to furnish the Club with a paper 

 on the Permian Entomostraca of the district, which I also see in 

 the list of papers to be read to-day. 



I cannot conclude this address without an allusion to the loss 

 we have sustained during the year in the death of several of our 

 a,ssociates and friends. Of those whose loss we lament I must 

 name Hugh Lee Pattinson, Esq., F. R. S., and of many other, 

 learned societies, whose devotion to natural and physical science 

 in his own practice, and the warm and hearty encouragement 

 which he cheerfully afforded to the inquirer, based as it was upon 

 his deep and extensive acquaintance with almost every branch of 

 Natural History, rendered him a valuable and delightful associate, 

 and his loss is severely felt and much lamented. 



In W. H. M. Sidney Esq., of Blyth, the Club has lost an old 

 and valued member, who always evinced an interest in its 

 proceedings. 



Wm, John Forster, Esq. of Tynemouth, has also been taken 

 from us. To him the Museum of the Natural History Society 



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