Books, or in the desk of the private iiulividual. These old 

 records will have great value, and in making a study of them 

 we shall find that some organisms have liecome, in process of 

 time, extinct within the district, and shall learn valualile 

 lessons in our endeavour to trace the causes which have 

 ministered to their extinction. We may also be able to note, 

 as time goes on, the gradual extinction of other species, and 

 the introduction and spread of new organisms. The interest 

 attaching to the permanent record of oljservations by the Field 

 Club will increase rather than diminisli as years go on, and 

 that recoi'd becomes more complete. It will then give 

 pecidiar pleasure to drop upon something which has not been 

 recorded before, and many old or doubtful records will require 

 confirmation. 



A number of Sections has recently been formed in the 

 Cleveland Field Club, each Section concerning itself specially 

 with some one department of the Natural History of the 

 district Thei'e is also a Section dealing with Archaeology. 

 In the following pages is printed some portion of the first 

 year's records of these Sections. Some reports, e.g. those on 

 Botany and Conchology, are held over until next year. It is 

 feared that unless the membersliip of the Club largely increases 

 we shall not be able to go to the expense of printing Reports 

 every year, and it maybe well to caution those who contri1)ute 

 such Reports that it will be well for them to confine them- 

 selves, as far as possible, in subsequent years, to records not 

 previously made for the district, and to observations of special 

 value or permanent interest. On the present occasion the 

 editor has taken the liberty, which he trusts will be pardoned, 

 of cutting down some of the Reports to some extent. 



JOHN HA WELL, MA. 



