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breadth in front of the dorsal fin, 4f inches. It is a handsome 

 fish, with bright and golden colours, and scales of a beautiful 

 silvery hue. It usually has four or five black spots on the side 

 in a line nearly with the eye ; but one I saw on August 9th was 

 rather larger, and had Uvelve spots on the side. I also noticed a 

 few Sprats, but Salmon were scarce off and in the Tees this sea- 

 son. A small Sturgeon was taken in the Tees this summer. 

 — Jolm Hogg, Norton, September 28th, 1868. 



ADDEESS TO THE MEMBERS OF THE TYNESIDE 

 NATURALISTS' FIELD CLUB, 



READ BY THE PRESIDENT, THE REV. ANGUS BETHUNE, M.A., AT THE 

 TWENTY-SECOND ANNIVERSARY MEETING, HELD IN THE MUSEUM 

 OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, ON 

 THURSDAY, APRIL 23ed, 1868. 



Gentlemen, — At the close of my period of ofiice as President I 

 have the honour to address you, and proceed, according to cus- 

 tom, to give some account of the transactions of the year. 



I am happy to say that the Club has manifested no signs of 

 decay in the year that is past. The meetings have all been well 

 attended : fifty-one names have been added to the already large 

 list of members : some useful work has been done ; and, in short, 

 the Club has been reasonably fulfilling the intention of its foun- 

 ders, and while contributing to the store of scientific facts from 

 local sources, has been extending in the locality a taste for Na- 

 tural History. 



Referring to the Field Meetings of the year I am unable to 

 state, indeed, that they have yielded any new facts of scientific 

 value to be recorded ; but this is, perhaps, neither matter for 

 surprise nor regret. These meetings owe their usefulness, not 

 so much to the direct fruits which they yield to the stores of the 

 Club, as to the opportunities which they afi'ord of studying ac- 

 tual nature — to the older members of renewing their acquaint- 

 ance with objects and scenes already known ; to the younger of 

 acquiring knowledge in the presence of those who can stimulate 



