TRANSACTIONS 
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TYNESIDE NATURALISTS FIELD CLUB. 
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ADDRESS TO THE MEMBERS OF THE TYNESIDE 
NATURALISTS’ FIELD CLUB, 
READ BY THE PRESIDENT, GEORGE WAILES, ESQ., MEMBER OF THE 
ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETIES OF LONDON, FRANCE, AND STETTIN, 
AT THE FIFTEENTH ANNIVERSARY MEETING, HELD IN NEWCASTLE- 
UPON-TYNE, TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1861. 
GentLEmMEN—In vacating the office of President, I have to offer 
many apologies for the imperfect manner in which I have ful- 
filled the duties devolving upon me, more especially as regards 
my attendance at the various field meetings of the year, and 
I have, consequently, in this address, had to rely chiefly on 
the notes of the proceedings furnished me by our indefa- 
tigable Secretary, Mr. Mennell, whose devotion to the duties 
of that, the most important office of the Club, it is quite 
needless I should allude to. I regret to have to report 
very unfavourably of the past year, for never, since the 
formation of our Club, has it fallen to the lot of its Pre- 
sident to lay before his fellow members the record of a season so 
peculiarly unsuited to the pursuits of a body of out-of-door Natu- 
ralists; in fact, it stands alone as the coldest, wettest, and most 
sunless season of the present century; and I trust Mr. Watson, or 
some of our members who make meteorology their study, will put 
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