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out-of-door meetings — meetings which. I think may be said to 

 have been uniformly pleasant and successful, and which owed 

 not a little to the good will and exertions of members resident 

 near the several localities. To those who thus have helped our 

 proceedings I would here express the cordial thanks of the Club, 

 and the wish that they may have many more opportunities of 

 exhibiting a similar kindliness. While our meetings are thus 

 pleasant and profitable to ourselves, it is encouraging to find 

 that our work is approved by brother-naturalists in distant parts 

 of the country, and that our published " Transactions " still com- 

 mand a high place in the estimation of scientific men. In his 

 Presidential Address to the Biological Section of the British As- 

 sociation at Liverpool, Professor Bolleston said, " Let me say 

 that a person who wishes to know what a Field Club can do for 

 its members, and not for them only, but for the world at large, 

 will do well to purchase one, or any number more than one, of 

 the 'Transactions of the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club.'" 

 And a writer in "Nature" of October 13th, 1870, after commend- 

 ing Mr. Baker's Flora of our two counties, goes on to say- — 

 " The Tyneside naturalists certainly stand first in the value and 

 importance of their published proceedings, which, especially since 

 their union with the Natural History Society of Northumberland, 

 Durham, and Newcastle, have attained a scientific position which 

 renders them indispensable to those who would obtain a complete 

 knowledge of the Natural History of the country at large. As a 

 proof that local matters are not neglecled in these volumes, cata- 

 logues of the Lepidoptera, Mollusca, Zoophytes, recent Forami- 

 nifera, and Fossils,* have been published in them, and also issued 

 separately at a moderate cost ; and the last volume contains a 



* This, however, does not exhaust the list of our published catalogues. Up to the present 

 time, in addition to the new Flora of Messrs. Baker and Tate, the following lists have ap- 

 peared in the pages of our Transactions — 



Insects (Coleoptera), by James Hardy and Thomas John Bold. 

 Mollusca, by Joshua Alder. Permian Fossils, by Richard Howse. 

 Zoophytes, by Joshua Alder. Lepidoptera (part I.), by George Wailes. 

 Marine Algas, by G. S. Brady. Mammalia, by H. T. Mennell and V. R. Perkins 

 Recent Foraminifera, by H. B. Brady. Aculeate Hymenoptera, by T. J. Bold. 

 Echinodermata, by George Hodge; and several other less comprehensive lists 

 families or small sections. 



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