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very satisfactory result the unseen but arduous labours of the 

 responsible Editor year by year have conduced. AVe cannot 

 but express our sense of extreme indebtedness to Professor G. 

 S. Brady for his careful supervision of the Transactions for the 

 long period of twelve years, notwithstanding the pressure of 

 professional work. Yet it will also give pleasure to our mem- 

 bers to know that the newly-founded Chair of Biology, at the 

 Durham College of Physical Science in this town, to which Mr. 

 Brady was last year elected, will be filled by one so well 

 qualified to take a high position in the number of its able and 

 distinguished Professors. We shall heartily wish him ''God- 

 speed" in his new sphere of scientific and educational labour. 



To Mr. D. P. Morison, also, we must express our special 

 thanks, who for the past six years has undertaken, conjointly 

 with Mr. Thomas Thompson, the duties, by no means light, that 

 devolve on the Honorary Secretaries of so large a society as the 

 Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club, to whose unfailing courtesy, 

 large experience, and business aptitude, is owing very much of 

 its present highly prosperous condition. 



If we cannot submit to such unavoidable changes without at 

 least a passing reference, it would still less become me to omit 

 to refer to the loss which we have sustained during the last 

 twelve months in the lamented decease of two of the former 

 Presidents of the Club, who have ever taken a warm personal 

 interest in its proceedings and its prosperity. 



Mr. Robert Ingham, Q.C., of Westoe, South Shields, was one 

 of its forty-seven original members, and was President in 1851. 

 He lived long enough to see it increased thirteen -fold in num- 

 bers, while its sphere of usefulness has been proportionately 

 extended. At the patriarchal age of eighty-two years, he 

 passed to his well-earned rest, honoured and beloved as few 

 have been by all classes and conditions of men. For myself, I 

 can only speak of his kindness and courtesy in correspondence. 

 But his private worth and public services are personally known 

 to very many of our members, and they are the common property 

 of all in the North of England, who know that he represented 

 his native town from the time of the Reform Bill in several 



