NATUEAL HISTORY 

 TRANSACTIONS 



OF 



NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM. 



ADDEESS TO THE MEMBERS OF THE TYNESIDE 

 NATUEALISTS' FIELD CLUE, 



BEAD BY THE PBESIDENT, HENBY B. BBADY, ESQ., F.L.S., AT THE 

 TWENTY-SEVENTH ANNIVEBSABY MEETING, HELD IN THE MUSEUM 

 OF THE NATUBAL HISTOBY SOCIETY, NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, ON 

 THUBSDAY, APBIL 17th, 1873. 



Gentlemen, — The duty of your President, at the termination of 

 his year of office, as laid down by rule and confirmed by six and 

 twenty years practice, is to deliver an address to the members of 

 the Club containing primarily " a written summary of its prcT- 

 ceedings at the several Field Meetings." In the early days of 

 the Club the minutes of the Committee relating to each Field 

 Meeting, which were then very full and copious, supplied a 

 ground -work which required little beyond connective matter 

 and a few supplementary reflections, to fashion it into the pre- 

 scribed form. Ey degrees however changes have crept in, and 

 now, as for many years past, the annual address has become 

 almost the only recognised communication, except the Trea- 

 surer's periodical statement, between the executive and the ge- 

 neral body of members. 



To begin then, according to precedent, with our retrospect. 



