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CLEVELAND NATURALISTS' FIELD CLUB. 



SECRETARY'S REPORT FOR 1903-4. 



In presenting to the members my Sixth Annual Report 

 it is once more my pleasing duty to record that the work of 

 the Society during the past twelve months has been quite as 

 successful as during any previous period of the Club's 

 existence. Summer and Winter Meetings have beeu held 

 regularly. 



Before giving my Report in detail it would perhaps be 

 interesting to preface my remarks by informing you that, on 

 referring to the First Minute Book of the Club. I find that 

 this is the 23rd year of the Club's existence since organised 

 as the Cleveland Naturalists' Field Club, the Club being 

 established at a meeting held in the " Lit. and Phil.," on 

 April 4th, 1881. During the first year the Club appears to 

 have had 72 members. Of these 16 are at present members, 

 and 4 who attended the first meeting are members of the 

 Committee, 3 of them still taking an active part in the work 

 of the Club. The Club during its first year of existence held 

 both summer and winter meetings, and also published a hand- 

 book of Middlesbrough and district for the use of the members 

 of the British Association, who visited the district in the 

 autumn of 1881. 



Summer Meetings. — The programme arranged for the summer 

 months provided for 8 meetings, exclusive of the Yorkshire 

 Naturalists' Union meetings. The whole of the meetings were 

 held, and when the weather was anything. like fine there w T as 

 generally a good attendance. During the whole of the summer 

 months, however, the weather was exceptionally cold and 

 unsettled, and it materially interfered with the attendance at 

 two or three of the meetings. At several of the meetings 

 members of the Club or others acquainted with the localities 

 to be visited kindly assisted in arranging the programme and 

 also acted as guides, which arrangement added very greatly to 

 the interest and value of the outings I hope that more 

 members will assist in this, and it w r ould also be a great 

 assistance if a few of the members would undertake to be 

 responsible for the arrangements of, say, one meeting each 

 during the summer. 



