oxvi. Proceedings. 



abound along the coast are S. Cuthbert's beads ; and it was to 

 the little cell on the Fames that he so often escaped from the 

 cares and splendours of his priory of Lindisfarne and of his 

 Bishopric, and where at last he died. 



The papers were illustrated by some interesting specimens 

 from the locality, together with charts and photographs. 



After a few remarks from Mr. W. F. Stanley and the Rev. 

 E. A. Eaton (a visitor), the meeting terminated with a hearty 

 vote of thanks to the three gentlemen who read the papers. 



The following objects were exhibited : — B}- the President, 

 a series of seabirds' eggs from the Fame Islands, also photo- 

 graphs of the Isles ; by Mr. Bidwell, stuffed specimens of 

 cormorants, guillemots, gulls, &c., stuffed specimens of eider 

 duck, &c., also the young of puffins and other birds from the 

 Fame Islands ; by Mr. Alennell, specimens of mountain lime- 

 stone, normal and metamorphosed by proximity to basaltic 

 upthrusts, stems of encrinites (locally known as St. Cuthbert's 

 beads), &c., from Northumberland ; by Mr. Lovett, series of 

 striated blocks from boulder clay from the mouth of the Tyne, 

 magnesian limestone from Marsden and Fulwell Hill, and 

 basalt from the Fame Islands, seritis of patella , saxicr.va, pecten, 

 purpura, and other shells, and helices, inytilus, &c., from other 

 localities, echinus sphara and goniaster equestris from the neigh- 

 bourhood of the Fame Islands, photographs and charts of the 

 Islands and neighbourhood ; by Mr. A. Warner, under his micro- 

 scope, section of hoof of sheep, showing junction of horn and 

 muscle ; by Mr. McKean, under his microscope, Lumhricus 

 terrestris, young, from small cavity at right angles to a worn 

 boring 26 inches below the surface ; by the Rev. George Bailey, 

 shells from the coast of Northumberland and Durham, in- 

 cluding pecteii danicus ; by Mr. H. M. Klaassen, crystals of 

 o^ypsum from salt pans, America, stalk barnacles (lepas) in 

 spirit ; by Mr. Low-Sergeant, ophiocomn neglecta (alive), 

 microscopic photographs of various objects ; by the Rev. 

 E. A. Eaton, drawings by Mr. A. T. Hollick, of platyartlirus 

 Hcffmanseggii, the ant's nest wood louse. 



Thirteenth Annual Soiree. 



The 13th Annual Soiree was held on the 22nd November. 

 The attendance was slightly larger than that of last year, viz., 

 139 members, 93 exhibitors (non-members), and 559 visitors ; 

 total, 791. 



The excess is chiefly in the exhibitors from a distance, and 

 is gratifying as shewing the cordial co-operation and kindly 



