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‘. I can only repeat the suggestion I made when the rules were under 
the consideration of the Committee of the Natural History Section 
of Manchester, viz. that the rules be not adopted until they have 
been compared with Linnzus’s ‘ Philosophia Botanica,’ Fabricius’s 
‘Philosophia Entomologica,’ Illiger’s ‘ Prodromus,’ and DeCandolle’s 
‘Théorie Elémentaire,’ and that when they are not in conformity 
with the laws proposed by these authors, which have been accepted 
by all recognized systematic naturalists, the reasons for the proposed 
alterations should be given in detail. After some discussion, my 
suggestion was adopted, and the report was remitted to the Com- 
mittee to carry it out. 
The rules were inserted in the printed Report, through the personal 
influence of Mr. Strickland, who was then a member of the Council, 
but they never received the sanction of the British Association. 
In the ‘American Journal of Science and Art’ for March 1864 
[reprinted in the ‘ Annals’ for June, 1864.] there are some admirable 
observations by Dr. Asa Gray on some of these rules, which entirely 
accord with my own views, and which I recommend to the considera- 
tion of the Committee. 
In conclusion, I would request you kindly to bear in mind that I 
have. simply thrown these observations together in the hope of 
eliciting the opinions of my colleagues in the Section. 
My only desire is that we may all heartily concur in doing all that 
is in our power to render this and other institutions conducive to the 
increase of the knowledge, the happiness, and the comforts of the 
people. 
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 
Transactions of the Tyneside Naturalists’ Field-Club. Vol. VI. 
Part II. 8vo. 1864. Newcastle-on-Tyne. 
Tuoveu the Naturalists’ Field-Club of Tyneside cannot rank as 
the first established among the many kindred clubs that now exist 
in Great Britain, it would yet appear to be winning, if it has not 
already won, the premier place, when estimated by the value of its 
published Transactions. Other field-clubs may possess a larger 
number of members, more funds, and even greater popularity ; but 
we know of none that is so carefully carrying out the objects for 
which it was founded, or whose Transactions contribute more to the 
progress of natural history than this society of naturalists on the 
banks of the Tyne. 
The work which its founders, some eighteen years ago, carved out 
for it to accomplish was, first, to promote and foster a general taste 
for natural-history pursuits, and, secondly, to investigate the natural 
history of Tyneside and the neighbouring district, the results of 
which were to be published in the Transactions. How far they have, 
in the latter case, worked out their plan may be judged of by the 
fact that the Mammalia, Mollusca, Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, Zoo- 
phyta, Marine Algze, and Permian fossils have all been carefully 
