26 RULES OF THE CLUB. 
10. That the Club shall undertake the formation of correct 
lists of the various natural productions of the counties of Northum- 
berland and Durham, with such observations as their respective 
authors may deem necessary; as well as succinct accounts of the 
Geology of the district; and that, for fully carrying out this plan, 
the assistance and co-operation of parties studying Natural His- 
tory in the North of England, whether members of the Club or 
not, be requested. 
11. That for the purpose of thoroughly identifying the 
species referred to in the proposed lists, authentic local collections 
be formed and placed, with the consent of the Natural History 
Society, in the Newcastle Museum. The collections shall become 
the property of the Natural History Society, but the specimens 
in them shall be distinguished by some mark to show that they 
refer to the lists. 
12. That these lists, the address of the President, and any 
other papers communicated to the Club which the committee 
may deem suitable for publication, shall be printed in a cheap 
octavo form, under the name of the “Transactions of the Tyne- 
side Naturalists’ Field Club,” and distributed gratuitously to all 
the members whose subscriptions are not in arrear. 
13. That the Club shall endeavour to discourage the practice 
of removing rare plants from the localities of which they are 
characteristic, and of risking the extermination of rare birds and 
other animals by wanton persecution; that the members be re- 
quested to use their influence with landowners and others, for 
the protection of the characteristic birds of the country, and to 
dispel the prejudices which are leading to their destruction; and 
that consequently the rarer botanical specimens collected at the 
Field Meetings be chiefly such as can be gathered without dis- 
turbing the roots of the plants; and that notes on the habits 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. That in like manner the Club shall 
endeavour to cultivate a fuller knowledge of the local antiquities, 
historical, popular, and idiomatic, and to promote a taste for care- 
fully preserving the monuments of the past from wanton injury. 
