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Such investigations as the Tynesicle Naturalists' Field Club 

 has prosecuted for thirty years past are not only useful to science, 

 but they are, above all, self-repaying. 



' ' Nature never did betray 

 The heart that loved her ; 'tis her privilege, 

 Through all the years of this our life to lead 

 From joy to joy ; for she can so inform 

 The mind that is within us, so impress 

 With quietness and beauty, and so feed 

 With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, 

 Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, 

 Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all 

 The dreary intercourse of daily life, 

 Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb 

 Our cheerful faith that all which we behold 

 Is fidl of blessings." 



The Field Meetings for 1876 were arranged to be held as 

 follows : — 



May 11th Gosforth Lake. 



June 5th Fame Islands. 



July 13th Stawart Peel. 



August 7th Stanhope. 



September 14th and 15th .... Leyburn, Yorkshire. 



The Treasurer's report (see p. 274) was read and adopted. 



