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Transactions. The meetings, which as stated were held at the 

 houses of the members, were found to be inconvenient, and the 

 Wallis Society was dissolved. Its dissolution did not interfere 

 with the intercourse of the members, and friendships which were 

 there formed were not broken off. Mr. Hardy and Mr. Bold, 

 from the oneness of their pursuits, contrived to meet once or 

 twice a week, and to compare and examine their captures, and 

 thus was accumulated a great mass of material, which was after- 

 wards used in the preparation of their Catalogue of the local 

 Coleoptera. 



Mr. Hardy tells me that in after years Mr. Bold often recalled 

 with great pleasure those quiet evenings, when specimens were 

 shewn and notes compared. At that time he lodged with Mr. 

 Balmer, a gentleman known to some of our older members, who 

 possessed a rather fine collection of the British Falconidce, and on 

 which he prided himself very much ; and often after the contents 

 of their boxes had been examined, they would retire to the next 

 room, and wind up the evening by an inspection of their host's 

 collection of Falcons, for though he had given up the practical 

 study of Ornithology yet his interest in it never ceased. 



On the formation of the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club both 

 he and Mr. Hardy became members. Mr. Bold was unable to be 

 present at the preliminary meeting, but he was represented by 

 his friend Mr. Hardy. He entered into the work of the Club 

 with his characteristic energy, and as before stated the first paper 

 in the Transactions is from his pen. 



It was one of the primary objects of the Club that correct lists 

 of the various I^atural History objects of the district should be 

 prepared by the members. In furtherance of this object sub- 

 committees were appointed, and Mr. Bold became a member of 

 the Committee on Entomology, and to him and Mr. Hardy was 

 entrusted the preparation of the Catalogue of the Coleoptera. 

 And as the subject had long occupied their attention, both as 

 members of the "Wallis Society and by their continued intercourse 

 after its dissolution, the materials they had accumulated were 

 quickly brought into use, and the first part of their Catalogue 

 was issued in the first part of the Transactions. The Catalogue 



