NATURAL HISTORY TRANSACTIONS 



^NORTHUMBERLAND, DURHAM, AND NEWCASTLE- 

 UPON-TYNE. 



ADDRESS TO THE MEMBERS OF THE TYNESIDE 

 NATURALISTS' FIELD CLUB, 



READ BY THE PRESIDENT, THE REV. CANON TRISTRAM, LL.D., F.RS., ETC., 

 AT THE THIRTY-FOURTH ANNIVERSARY MEETING, HELD IN THE MU- 

 SEUM OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, 

 ON THURSDAY, APRIL ISth, 1880. 



Labies and GrENTLEMEN, — I caniiot commence my address on the 

 close of my year of office without recalling the fact, that it is just 

 twenty years since I was called upon, by the partial favour of 

 my naturalist friends, to perform a similar duty. I well remem- 

 ber the keen appreciation with which I received the invitation 

 of your Committee to preside over your Society in 1859, and not 

 less was my gratification at the summons which last year I re- 

 ceived to head your phalanx during their annual forays. My 

 sense of your kindness was all the^ greater, since, in the interven- 

 ing period. I have been with you more fi-equently in spirit than 

 in body. Your invitation told me that in spite of my infrequent 

 attendances, you recognized that my love of nature and of God's 

 works in nature had not diminished with increasing years, and 

 that I owed the high honour you bestowed on me rather to your 

 partiality than to my own deserts. But enough of egotism. I 



