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when they began to disappear, is also indicated by the insertion 

 of ice-worn and angular blocks of stone, the former with their 

 scratched and polished surfaces in all positions, such as they 

 could scarcely have been in when under a glacier. 



Though no doubt great part of the bed, and especially the 

 clay, was originally due to the attrition and crushing of sub- 

 jacent rock -surfaces by ice, yet their present arrangement, I 

 believe, as I have suggested above, to be principally owing to 

 the subsequent action of the water from the melting ice and 

 snow. 



XXV. — Meteorological Report for 1869. Edited by the Eev. 

 E. F. Wheeler, M.A. 



It is with great pleasure that the editor of the Meteorological 

 Report proceeds to lay before the members of the Tyneside 

 Naturalists' Field Club, the results of observations made dur- 

 ing 1869 by the various members who so ably interest themselves 

 in this part of the work of the Club. An increase has again to 

 be recorded in the staff of our observers ; but it would be of 

 great additional service if even moi'e would made a practice of 

 recording occurrences at all out of the usual course which come 

 under their notice from time to time. The "Notes on the 

 Month," which nov7 for so many years have formed part of 

 the published Transactions of this Club, will indicate readily 

 to any one the kind of information desired. The habit of so 

 noticing things around us is one which is capable of affording 

 the highest gratification. Easy as practice makes the habit, it 

 is one vfhich requires cultivation at first ; but in the end it is 

 capable of affording no less profit than pleasure. Our northern 

 counties, in many respects, offer as fine a field for work of that 

 kind as any part of the British Islands. It matters not whether 

 it be the arrival, stay, or departure of migratory birds ; the ever 

 varying seasons ; the geology ; or the botany, for which last the 

 Flora of Northumberland, lately published by the Club, offers a 



