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Bridge, where an excellent dinner was provided at the Anchor 
Inn. This was rather hastily dispatched to save the evening 
train to Newcastle. 
On occasion of the fifth meeting, the club again turned their 
steps westward, selecting a tract of country a little beyond that 
of the previous meeting. In consequence of the unsettled state 
of the weather the attendance was thin. The members assembled 
at Haltwhistle station ; whence the walk led to Wall Town Crags, 
a favourite locality of the botanist on account of the rare plants 
that here grow on the basaltic rocks. The plants of this locality, 
which had been visited by the club on a former occasion, are so 
well known that it is unnecessary here to enumerate them. The 
remainder of the day was spent in traversing the wild and un- 
dulating country towards Gilsland. During this walk and on 
the banks of the Irthing the following plants were obtained. 
Saxifraga aizoides, Galium boreale, Hieracium boreale, H.umbella- 
tum, Vicia sylvatica, Potamogeton gramineus, P. pusillus, and As- 
plenium viride. A heavy storm of rain, accompanied with thun- 
der and lightning, came on in the afternoon and dispersed the 
party, some of whom got very much wet. Only six members, in- 
eluding three who had gone to Gilsland by a later train, assembled 
at Greenhead to dinner. The secretary announced a paper on the 
freshwater polypes got at the previous meeting by Mr. Albany 
Hancock, but want of time prevented its being read. 
The last field meeting of the season,—an extra one,—took 
place on the 7th of September, at Ryhope. Again an unfayour- 
able state of the weather prevented a large assemblage. The 
members from Newcastle were joined at Sunderland by a few of 
those residing in that town. The walk chosen led over Tunstall 
Hill, commanding one of the most extensive prospects in the 
neighbourhood. The view of Sunderland and the surrounding 
country, with a wide expanse of sea beyond, was very fine. Some 
good fossils are obtained on this hill, but on the present occasion, 
time did not allow of a search being made for them. Thence the 
route lay through Tunstal Hope to Ryhope. After resting a 
while at this village, the party proceeded to Ryhope Dene, and 
passed through this romantic little valley to the sea coast. Here 
