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after year, with kindred objects, and guided by very similar rules 
and regulations to our own. The Naturalists’ Clubs of Liver- 
pool and Manchester may be mentioned, as striking examples of 
activity and usefulness. Their tendency has been more to popular 
science and less to original investigation than ours, but to the 
latter, the former will probably lead them ere long. 
The financial affairs of the Club continue to prosper. The 
receipts from subscriptions are considerably larger than in any 
former year. Nevertheless the expenditure on “circulars,” and 
other items, which leave no permanent result, shows a large 
increase, an increase which must naturally follow from our grow- 
ing numbers, and which however unsatisfactory, will continue to 
augment itself. 
The amount spent on Transactions and Illustrations, is the 
best proof of the vitality and real usefulness of the Club, and so 
long as it is judiciously expended, its increase ean only be hailed 
with pleasure. 
The other items in the Treasurer’s statement require no explan- 
ation, except that as regards the balance in the hands of the 
Treasurer, your committee seeing no reason for carrying forward 
and accumulating a large balance, have preferred to give to the 
members, in the course of the year, all that their annual subscrip- 
tion would admit of. 
The roll of members now contains 451 names, being an increase 
of 75 during the year: 100 have been elected, and 25 have been 
removed by death or resignation. 
The obituary, with the exception of the President, Dr. Johnson, 
contains the names of none who took an active part in the affairs 
of the Club. 
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Members elected since the last Anniversary Meeting. 
At the Anniversary Mertinc—Messrs. Thos. Mackay, 
M.D., Rey. J. Banning, Rev. W. Burnett, Newcastle; James 
Barron, Sunderland; Messrs. Thos. Young, Archibald 
Stevenson, J. H. Miller, South Shields; A. H. Hunt, 
Dr. Gibson, Birtley; W. H. Charlton, Esq., Hesleyside ; John 
Booth, Solicitor, Durham. 
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