FORMATION OF CLUB. 3 
of birds be accumulated instead of specimens, by which our closet 
collections would be enriched only at the expense of nature’s 
great museum out of doors. 
XIV. That in like manner the Club shall endeavour to culti- 
vate a fuller knowledge of local antiquities, historical, popular 
and idiomatic, and to promote a taste for carefully preserving 
the monuments of the past from wanton injury. 
The meeting then proceeded to elect the officers for the first year, 
and the following were appointed 
PRESIDENT. 
Rapa Carr, Esq., Dunston Hill. 
VICE-PRESIDENT. 
Tue Rev, Joun F. Biacr, Ovingham. 
SECRETARY. 
Mr. Joun THORNHILL. 
COMMITTEE. 
JosepH H. Fryer, Esq. 
JosHua ALDER, Esq. 
W. K. Lorrus, Esq. 
It was also resolved, that such parties as may signify to the 
secretary, at the Library of the Literary and Philosophical So- 
ciety, their wish to become members, shall be admitted without 
being formally proposed, until the first general meeting of the 
Club, after which period the tenth rule shall take effect. 
The thanks of the meeting were then voted to the Vicar, as 
chairman, and to Mr. Carr, for having suggested, and for his 
exertions in the formation of the Club. 
(Signed) R. C. Coxs, M. A., 
Vicar of Newcastle, Chairman. 
At a general meeting of the Club, held on Monday the 11th 
May, 1846, 
Rapa Carr, Hsq., President, in the Chair. 
On the motion of the secretary, seconded by J. H. Fryzr, Hsq., 
It was unanimously resolved, 
I. That the Tyneside Naturalists’ Field Club undertake the 
