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and during this period he cheerfully gave his time and labour in 

 its service.* 



Your Museum has been enriched by several important recent 

 donations. Of these the most prominent is the large and beau- 

 tiful collection of fossils formed by M. R. Pry or, Esq., of Trinity 

 College, Cambridge. The value of this gift to the Society can 

 scarcely be over-rated, for it represents copiously, and by charac- 

 teristic specimens, named in accordance with the accepted types 

 in the Woodwardian Museum, and excellently mounted, the fossil 

 fauna of the Secondary and Tertiary strata of the Eastern Coun- 

 ties. By its means our meagre collections in these departments 

 are brought up to a standard of completeness which the geological 

 position of our own district left us little hope of attaining. 



The Society is indebted to Hugh Taylor, Esq., of Chipchase 

 Castle, for a gift of specimens of British birds, sufficient in num- 

 ber to lessen materially the list of desiderata. The gift, and the 

 manner of giving, were alike highly gratifying to your Committee. 



* It may not be out of place to append a list of the contributions to zoological science 

 which have appeared from time to time in the Transactions of the Tyneside Naturalists' 

 Field Club, and our own Society, from the pen of our late colleague, Mr. Hodge. 

 1S58. — " On the occurrence of the Seal (Phoca vitulina) at Seaham Harbour." Trans. T. N. 



F. C, Vol. IV. 

 1859. — " Contributions to the Zoology of Seaham Harbour." Ibid. 



1861. — " On the common Brittle-star (Opliiocoma rosula), with some remarks on the growth 

 of the rays and their appendages." Ibid, Vol. V. 

 " On Uraster glacialis, at Seaham Harbour." Ibid. 



" Dredging at Seaham Harbour ; " Note on Corymorpha nutans, &c. Ibid. 

 " On a New Hydroid Zoophyte (Podocoryne Alderi)." Ibid. 



" Observations on a species of Pycnogon (Phoxichilidium coccineum, Johnston), with 

 an attempt to explain the order of its development." Ibid. 

 1862.—" Report on the Pycnogonoidea (Dogger Bank Dredging, 1862), with description of 

 two new species {Pallene attenuata and Nymphon brevirostre)." Ibid. 

 " On a new Sand-star of the genus Ophiura (0. Normani), found on the Coast of 



North umberland and Durham." Ibid. 

 "On some undescribed Marine Acari (Halacarus granulatus, H. ondatus, Pacliy- 

 gnathus minutus, and Leptognathus falcatus)." Ibid. 

 1863. — "Report on the Pycnogonoidea" and "Report on the Echinodermata" (Dredging 

 Report, 1863). Ibid, Vol. VI. 

 " List of the British Pycnogonoidea, with description of several (seven) new species." 

 1864. — "Report on the Pycnogonoidea" and "Report on the Echinodermata" (Dredging 



Report, 1862-4, Summary). Nat. Hist. Trans. Northd. and Durham, Vol. I. 

 1871. — "A catalogue of the Echinodermata of Northumberland and Durham. Ibid. 

 Vol. IV. 



