22 LAST FIELD MEETING OF THE SEASON. 
I will now conclude by the agreeable statement that our num- 
bers now amount to more than eighty, and that we have been 
permitted to add the names of some fair honorary members, who 
have not only lent us their general encouragement, but have sent 
some beautiful specimens of dried plants, alge, and corallines, 
for examination. 
The last meeting of the year was held on Monday evening, the 
15th Nov., 1846, conjointly with the Natural History Society, in 
the rooms of that institution, the President of the club, Ralph 
Carr, Esq., in the chair. 
The President read a paper introductory to a future contribu- 
tion, concerning various proper names of places in Durham and 
Northumberland. It was stated that the geography of these dis- 
tricts is rich in significant terminations, of easy etymology, de- 
scriptive of hills, vales, waters, woodlands, precipices, pastures, 
villages, hamlets, enclosures, &c. ;—that although much has been 
done by the researches of Mr. Brockett and others, yet the ety- 
mological part of the question may be further elucidated from 
the Anglo-Saxon and old Norse languages, care being had in no 
case to trench upon ground under which an older Celtic element 
might be concealed ; that the different English counties offer 
great variety in the distribution and grouping of the signifi- 
cant popular endings, and that to compare them with those 
near home, may afford no small interest to a traveller ;—that 
in every part of the country the old popular names possess 
a certain grace and dignity from their close connexion with 
the cultivated speech and literature of our Anglo-Saxon fore- 
fathers ; whilst those of modern invention, with all their affecta- 
tion of classical or foreign sound, are comparatively worthless. 
A paper was also read by Mr. T. J. Bold, on the corn-weevil, a 
beetle which, along with another small coleopterous insect, com- 
mits fearful ravages amongst bonded corn. Mr. Albany Han- 
cock’s paper on Limnoria terebrans, a small species of crab which 
commits great havoc in sub-marine wood-work, was.re-read, as the 
subject is of great importance from the great destruction of sound 
