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meetings of the Club, at which every encouragement has been 
given to the illustration of papers by microscopical preparations. 
During the past year, two parts of our “ Transactions” have 
been published, containing a large number of valuable papers 
contributed, as it is satisfactory to observe, by a greater number 
of individuals than has ever been the case before. These papers 
have been illustrated also by an unusual number of plates, and 
though these entail considerable expense, the committee are per- 
suaded that no more satisfactory, or more useful expenditure of 
the funds of the Society can be devised; and they confidently 
recommend to their successors a like liberality. 
For future parts, the committee are happy to state that the 
materials, ready or in progress, are ample. 
The preparation of local catalogues, one of the chief duties 
undertaken by the Club, is proceeding satisfactorily. i 
In our last parts, a Catalogue of the Fossil Mammalia of 
Northumberland and Durham, by Mr. Richard Howse, has appear- 
ed, as well as large and interesting supplements to the list of Local 
Coleoptera, by Mr. T. J. Bold, and of Marine Alge, by Mr. 
George 8. Brady. 
The Rev. A. M. Norman’s catalogue of the Crustacea, a work 
of great labour and research, is progressing rapidly, and in the 
course of his investigations in this branch of natural history, 
many species have occurred to him, hitherto undescribed, or new 
to Great Britain. Of these several have been described, and 
figured in the Annals of Natural History, for January, 1862, 
and those belonging to our district, m our “ Transactions,” vol. 
We, pelts. 
Mr. George S. Brady has undertaken to prepare a catalogue of 
the Freshwater Algz of our counties. 
The very important and much desired catalogue of our Birds, 
promised by Mr. John Hancock, has not been lost sight of 
although its preparation has been delayed longer than was anti- 
cipated. 
Mr. H. T. Mennell, and Mr. V. R. Perkins are engaged on a 
catalogue of our Mammalia, for which they have already collected 
a large amount of interesting information. 
