252 pkesident's addkess. 



inventors of our northern serpent legends and that of St. George 

 and the Dragon, ever meet, face to face, one of those " chimeras 

 dire" in some remote dismal swamp? or, if not in the flesh, at 

 least in the fossil (skeleton) form on an exposed Lias bed, near 

 Whitby or Lyme Regis ? 



As the old historic town was visited by the Club in 1873, and 

 described, with special reference to the botany of the neighbour- 

 hood, in the anniversary address, its singular mixture of ancient 

 and recent, its nourishing jet manufactures, cliff walks and sea- 

 beach, with the wide stretch of open sea, specked with innu- 

 merable sails, are no novelties to many of the members. In this 

 respect, it differs from the Roseberry excursion, which furnished 

 us with 



" Fresh fields, and pastures new." 



I need only add that after dinner, at the Royal Hotel, North 

 Cliff, we took train, and arrived at Newcastle about eight o'clock; 

 refreshed mentally and physically, and cherishing, for my own 

 part at least, nothing but pleasant reminiscences of agreeable and 

 profitable social intercourse amidst scenes of mingled beauty and 

 sublimity, tending to enlarge the sympathies and elevate the 

 mind. 



One Evening Meeting was held, conjointly with the Natural 

 History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle- 

 upon-Tyne, on Wednesday, 23rd February, in the Museum of the 

 Natural History Society. The Rev. Gr. Cooper Abbes presided, and 

 there was a large attendance of members. The following papers 

 were read, and will in due course appear in the Transactions : — 

 " On the Shull and some other Bones of Loxomma Allmanni," by 

 Dr. Embleton and Mr. Thomas Atthey ; "On the Articular 

 Bone and supposed Vomerine Teeth of Ctenodus obliquus, and on 

 Palceoniscus Ilancochi, n. s.,from the Low Main, Newsham, North- 

 umberland r ," by Mr. Thos. Atthey; "On the larger Lepidop- 

 tera, obtained on our Coast, near the Mouth of the Tyne," by Mr. 

 J. G. Wasserrnann; "Note on the Occurrence of the Eagle Bag 

 {Myliobates Aquila) at Culler coats, Northumberland," by Mr. Jos. 

 Wright; "Notes on Lepidoptera observed in Northumberland and 



