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residence in the colliery district gives them an opportunity of 
following it. 
Mr. George Hodge continues his investigations into the 
Development of the Pynogonide, and has also added some new 
species to our list of the Echinodermata, on both subjects we hope 
for further contributions to our ‘“ Transactions.” 
Mr. Albany Hancock will shortly describe two curious internal 
parasites, found in Doris pilosa, Doto coronata, and other Nudi- 
branchiate mollusca, probably allied to, but quite distinct from 
the Crustacean genus, Chondrocanthus. 
The Rey. William Greenwell promises us a paper upon the 
Remains of man and other animals recently found in Heathery 
Burn Cave, near Stanhope; this will doubtless prove a very 
interesting contribution, the more so as ossiferous caverns are 
unusually scarce in our district. 
In Meteorology we are satisfied much remains to be done, the 
cost of obtaining and printing a really comprehensive record of 
observations, has hitherto retarded our progress. 
In this department, the committee have to acknowledge the 
ready assistance they have received from a large number of gentle- 
men, and especially from the Rev. J. F. Bigge, and Mr. George 
Clayton Atkinson, whose very valuable and complete observations 
have been placed at the service of the Club. 
Having reviewed the work of the year, as specially connected 
with our own members, we may devote a few lines to topics 
bearing on our pursuits, which have occupied the public mind, 
and which are not without their interest to us. 
The most important of these is the Preservation of Salmon, a 
question which has of late years forced itself on the attention of 
all interested in river-fisheries. A serious and earnest effort 
appears to be now making, in both counties, to carry out the 
provisions of a recent act of Parliament, and to enforce the powers 
it confers. Influential meetings have been held at various places 
to organise the necessary co-operation. _ On behalf of the Tyne 
and its tributaries, meetings were held at Hexham on the Ist 
October, and the 5th November, on both occasions presided over 
by W. B. Beaumont, Esq., M. P., more recently the Coquet and 
its sister streams have been cared for. 
