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which, Mr. Carr read the concluding portion of his paper on the 

 composite names of places. 



The following gentlemen were elected Office-bearers for the ensu- 

 ing year: — President: Robert Ingham, Esq., Westoe. Vice-Presi- 

 dents: Dennis Embleton, M.D., Rev. J. F. Bigge, and Mr, William 

 Kell. Treasurer : Mr. Thomas Burnet. Secretary : Mr. John Storey. 

 Committee : Rev. G. Cooper Abbes, Mr. Albany Hancock, Mr. John 

 Hancock, Mr. Joshua Alder, Mr. J. T. Bold, Mr. George Tate, F.G.S., 

 Mr. John Thompson, Mr. R. Y. Green, Mr. D. Oliver, jun., Mr. 

 Robert Currie, Mr. Edward Mather, and Mr. Thomas Jefferson. 



The following gentlemen were elected members of the Club : — 

 George Robinson, M.D., Capt. Moody, R. E., Mr. J. B. Falconar, 

 jun., Mr. E. B. Richardson, Mr. G. A. Hutton, and Mr. F. J. Peck, 

 Newcastle ; Mr. James Forster, Gateshead ; Mr. Stephens, North 

 Shields; Rev. Cuthbert J. Carr, Witton Gilbert ; and Rev. Joseph 

 Depledge, Chester-le-Street. 



The days and places of meeting were fixed as under : — 



By well and Riding Mill,— Friday, May 30. 



Durham and Finchale, — Friday, June 20. 



Allenheads, — July. 



Staward Peel, — Wednesday, August 20. 



Roker and Whitburn, — Friday, September 12. 



Corbridge and Stagshaw, — Friday, October 3. — J. S. 



Orchis hircina in Kent. By George B. Wollaston, Esq. 



I HAVE now in my possession a very fine flowering plant of Orchis 



hircina, brought to me on Good Friday of the present year by an 



intimate friend, from a locality which 1 showed him last year, and 



where we found five small plants of the same. The locality is in the 



neighbourhood of the old station mentioned in Sowerby's ' British 



Botany.' 



G. B. Wollaston. 



Eltham, April, 1851. 



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