40 [Proc. B. N. F. C, 



This document was brought before the members of Mr. 

 Tate's classes, and was largely signed by them. Efforts were 

 also made to obtain the signatures of other persons interested 

 in such matters, and in a short time a sufficient number of 

 names were obtained to warrant a public meeting being held. 

 After the lapse of so many years it may be interesting to note 

 the signatures, which were as follows : — Ralph Tate, F.G.S., 

 S. A. Stewart, Hugh Robinson, James Taggart, Samuel 

 Symington, George Donaldson, Daniel M'Kee, Robert M'Kee, 

 Abraham Wilson, W. M'L. Smith, Robert Smith, Robert M. 

 C. Stevenson, William M'Millan, Hugh Morrison, Isaac 

 Waugh, John Anderson, Richard Ross, M.D., William Brown, 

 James W. Jamison, Thomas O'Brien, W. F. C. S. Corry, R. 

 Smeethe, Hugh Small, P. Linehan, John Begley, John M. 

 Greer, Thomas Mathews, Robert Young, W. A. Robinson, W. 

 H. Patterson, W. H. Phillips, Alexander Hunter, George C. 

 Hyndman, Robert Douglas, John S. Holden, D. S. M'Millan, 

 John Darragh, John Love, W. T. Chew, W. E. Parkinson, 

 John Cameron, John A. Taylor, William Campbell, James W. 

 Valentine, David E. Patterson, J. W. Forrester, John Hartley, 

 Hugh Savage, David M. Murphy, A. F. Herdman, John 

 Grainger, George A. Reid, J. A. M'Donald. 



In addition to these the names ot some sixteen ladies appear. 

 Of the 53 gentlemen on the list of guarantors, the names of 18 

 still appear upon our list of members, while 1 1 others are still 

 living, but are not now connected with the Club. It would 

 certainly appear from this that membership of a field club is 

 not detrimental to longevity. Perhaps the most interesting 

 fact connected with this list is that on it are to be found the 

 names of two out of eight gentlemen who had originated the 

 Natural History Society some forty-one years before, and who, 

 having maintained their connection with it during that 

 lengthened period, now came forward to aid in the formation 

 of the younger Society. The gentlemen to whom I refer were 

 the late Mr. Robert Patterson, F.R.S., and the late Mr. George 

 C. Hyndman. In the month of March, 1863, a public meeting 

 of ihose interested in the formation of the Field Club was held 



