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the press, or in the course of preparation. It isa matter of congra- 
tulation to notice the very favourable mention that has been made 
in the published proceedings of similar institutions, and in some 
of the periodicals of the day, both of the transactions of the Club, 
as a whole, and of individual papers. A notice which appears in 
the address of William Spence, Hsq., F. R.S., the President of 
the Entomological Society of London, as delivered at the last 
anniversary meeting, it may not be out of place to quote, “ Here 
also,” he observes, “may be mentioned papers on Anobewm 
molle, and on the damage done to wheat by Cucujus monilicornis 
and Calandra granaria, by Mr. Bold; on the occurrence of Lim-. 
noria terebrans, at the mouth of the Tyne, by Mr. Hancock; and 
the commencement of a Catalogue of the insects of Northumber- 
land and Durham, by Mr. Hardy and Mr. Bold, which appear in 
Vol. I. of the Transactions of the Tyneside Naturalists’ Field 
Club, published this year. These papers were read to the So- 
ciety in 1846, but I refer to them as well as to Mr. Darling’s 
paper on an anomaly in the history of the Honey Bee; Mr. Sel- 
by’s Notes on Insects in 1846; Mr. Hepburn’s Notes on noctur- 
nal Lepidoptera; Dr. Johnston’s Description of the Acarides of 
Berwickshire, and Mr. Hardy’s Synopsis of the Berwickshire 
Staphylinide, which appeared in the last part of the Transac- 
tions of the Berwickshire Naturalists’ Club,—both for the pur- 
pose of expressing a hope that the excellent examples of these 
two northern societies, of the Cotswold Naturalists’ Club, and 
others, will be very generally followed in every part of the Bri- 
tish empire. Nothing could be better calculated than a Na- 
turalists’ Field Club, in every district where a few naturalists 
reside, to serve at once to promote social and healthy excursions ; 
to animate and encourage, by mutual sympathy, their love of 
natural history; and to investigate, thoroughly, that of their 
locality, and thus discover new and rare species of animals, and 
new facts in their economy, which would otherwise escape ob- 
servation.” In the “ Phytologist,” and the “Literary Gazette,” 
very favourable notices of our transactions have appeared. The 
“Critic,” also, in a recent number, devoted considerable space to 
