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liked to have taken a more active part in the Club's work, 

 but was prevented owing to his time being very much taken 

 up with his Parish Work. By his decease the Club lost a 

 most valuable member. A vote of condolence was passed 

 with his widow at the meeting held at Ayton in May, and a 

 letter of acknowledgment and thanks was received from 

 Mrs. Grant James. 



Mr. Jno. Garbutt, of Loftus, the other member who passed 

 away early this year was a member who generally attended 

 the meetings in the Loftus district, and was always willing to 

 assist in making arrangements and act as guide to our members 

 when in his locality. Only a few days before his death I 

 received a bird skin (a. Bramble Finch) from him that he 

 wanted identifying. 



Proceedings. — During the past year Proceedings for the 

 3 r ear 1905 8 (Vol. II, part 2) have been published and issued 

 to members. The number is well up to the average both as 

 regards size, illustration, and value of the papers contributed. 



Blocks for illustrating the Rev. J. Ha well's paper in it 

 were kindly lent by Mr. J. W. Brotton, of Battersby. The 

 Club is indebted to the Rev. J. Cowley Fowler. Mr. H. Simpson 

 and others for seeing the above through the printer's hands. 



Papers should have been got together for another part of 

 the Proceedings before this but I have been much too busy 

 to attend to it. In my opinion any quantity of suitable 

 material could be got together for printing, amongst it being 

 the local records and references contained in many papers 

 delivered to the Society's Meetings at various times, namely : — 

 the Rev. Grant James' ' ' Marske Worthies," and ' ' Smuggling 

 Days at Marske," and other local notes collected by him; 

 "' Cleveland, its Geology and Scenery." by Mr. J. S. Calvert ; 

 "Origin of the Cleveland Moors," and "'Cleveland Fauna, 

 Past and Present," by Mr. Frank Elgee ; "Historic Mid- 

 dlesbrough." by the late R. Lofthouse ; Mr. Burton " Notes 

 on origin of Natural Scenery " (local part) ; " Seaweeds," 

 by Mr. Simpson ; " ' Insect Notes. Coleoptera. Lepidoptera, &c." 



I regret to say that our Proceedings seem to have a very 

 small sale, and that they do not seem to be made widely 

 known by our members. 



