290 president's address. 



paper on the ' Crustacean Fauna of the Salt Marshes,' and a 

 'Catalogue of the Aculeate Hymenoptera ' of the two counties. 

 We have been thus particular in commenting on these Transac- 

 tions, as they appear to us to afford a very good example of what 

 the publications of the higher class of Field Clubs ought to be : 

 essentially local, yet at the same time of sufficient general in- 

 terest to be really valuable contributions to the Natural History 

 of England." Dr. Rolleston in the course of the address just 

 referred to also remarked, that "if some such person as Gilbert 

 White could be found in each county to write the Natural His- 

 tory of its Selborne, I know not at what cost it would not be 

 well to retain his services." Now our Transactions already bear 

 witness to our members having done something in this way, but 

 there is one piece of work which I especially wish that we could 

 have added to our stores. If we could prevail upon Mr. John 

 Hancock to let us have a list of our birds with notes from his 

 large experience on their ways of life, I think it would be worth 

 almost all that we have ever published — worth at least a double 

 subscription from every one of us. 



Our First Winter Evening Meeting, in conjunction with the 

 Natural History Society, was held on the 10th of November. 

 The attendance was very small, and the only business was the 

 reading of the following papers — 



1. " Catalogue of the Insects of Northumberland and Durham" 

 (Revision of Coledptera), by T. J. Bold. 



2. " Catalogue of the Echinodermata of Northumberland and 

 Durham,'''' by George Hodge. 



3. " Report on a Collection of Annelids dredged off the Coasts 

 of Northumberland and Durham," by W. C. M'Intosh, M.D., 

 F.L.S. 



4. " Notes on the Geology of Part of South Durham," by J. W. 

 Kirkby and Joseph Duff. 



5. "Note on the Occurrence of Ray^s Bream (Brama Ravi) on 

 the Durham Coast," by Geo. S. Brady, C.M.Z.S. 



These will be found in extenso in the forthcoming part of our 

 Transactions. 



