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a review of our publications, dwelling upon the usefulness of the 
society, and quoting largely, both from the address of our first 
president, and the accounts of the field meetings. 
But whilst we may congratulate ourselves on the success of 
the Club, in promoting the objects for which it was instituted, 
and on the value of the papers which it has been the means of 
contributing to science, yet we must not forget that the cost of 
printing has exceeded what was originally anticipated, and that 
it will be necessary to curtail the expenses during the ensuing 
year. With regard to what has been done by some of our mem- 
bers, independently of the meetings, it may be mentioned that a 
paper which will be read by Mr. A. Hancock and Dr. Embleton, 
at the anniversary meeting at which this report is presented, 
contains an account of a species of Ribbon Fish (Gymnetrus J, 
lately taken off Cullercoats. Mr. Bold has, during, the past 
year, added several species of Coleoptera to our Fauna, and has 
also been fortunate enough to meet with one species, new to 
science. His researches have also added several new localities of 
rare species. The discoveries alluded to will be found embodied 
in a paper, which will also be read by the same gentleman at 
this meeting. 
It may, however, be observed, that the new species belongs to 
the genus Colymbetes, and that Mr. Bold has named it C. dispar. 
Mr. Albany Hancock, in pursuing his investigations into the 
mode in which those marine mollusks, whose habit it is to bore 
into wood, clay, rocks, or the shells of their congeners, were 
enabled, with such facility, to excavate their habitations, has 
ascertained that certain sponges also have the power of borirg 
into various substances. In his researches into the habits of 
these singular and obscure creatures, he was fortunate enough to 
detect nine new British species of Cliona, three of which belong 
to the coast of our district. A species of nudibranchiate mol- 
lusk also, which was sent to Messrs. Alder and Hancock, by Mr. 
Richard Howse, Jun., proves to be new, and will be duly de- 
scribed by those gentlemen, in their splendid work on the Bri- 
tish Nudibranchiate Mollusca, now publishing by the Ray So- 
ciety. The Rev. W. Greenwell gathered, at Kyloe Crags, fine 
