president's address. 285 



North Sunderland Rev. F. R. Simpson. 



Rothbuiy Sir W. G. Armstrong. 



_ , (Mr. R. Draper, Seaham Hali Gardens. 



Sealiam -^ ,_ ^. ^ , , ,^^ 



( Mr. Kitts, Londonderry Office. 



Sedgefield, Durham Robert Smith, Esq. 



„,„,.,, ( Rev. R. E. Hooppell. 



SouthShields J ,^ ^^ ^^ 



(Mr. R. Kerr. 



Stamfordham Rev. J. F. Bigge, M.A. 



Stanhope Mr. Thomas Surtees, Stanhope Castle. 



fT. W. Backhouse, Esq., West Hendon 

 House. 



I J. W. Mounsey, Esq., Hendon Hill. 



IRev. George Iliff, The Hall. . 



Thorpe Grange, Greta Bridge T. Dodgson, Esq. 



Vfallington Mr. Hedley, Walliugton Hall Gardens. 



Wallsend J. W. Dees, Esq. 



Whitley Rev. R. F. Wheeler, M.A. 



Whittle Dene Company's Reservoirs, D. D Main, Esq. 



Wolsingham The late W. BackJiouse, Esq. 



Wylam G. C. Atldnson, Esq., Wylam Hall. 



Sunderland 



ADDEESS TO THE MEMBERS OF THE TYNESIDE 

 NATURALISTS' FIELD CLUB, 



READ BY THE PRESIDENT, E. J. J. BROWELL, ESQ., AT THE TWENTY- 

 THIRD ANNIVERSARY MEETING, HELD IN THE IIUSEUM OF THE NA- 

 TURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, ON THURSDAY, 

 APRIL 8th, 1869. 



Our last year's season commenced with a meeting at Sheepwash 

 and Bothal, on Wednesday, the 20th of May, and, as usual with 

 the first of the Season, was arranged as an afternoon excursion. 

 It would be difficult to find a more suitable place than this for a 

 Spring Meeting, the sheltered river banks tempting the vegeta- 

 tion to an early growth. Leaving Newcastle at 1-20 p.m. by rail- 

 way we went to Choppington Station and walked from thence to 

 Sheepwash. The scenery about this pretty place was peculiarly 

 beautiful on this occasion, the sun shone brilliantly on the varied 

 colours of the trees, from the deep bluish green of the Scotch 

 firs to the full verdure of the sycamores and the delicate tints of 



