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Who loved, who suffered countless ills, 



Who battled for the Tnie, the Just, 



Be blown about the desert dust, 

 Or sealed within the iron hills ? 



No more ? A monster then, a dream, 



A discord. Dragons of the prime, 



That tare each other in their slime. 

 Were meUow music matched with him. 



life as futile, then as frail, 



for thy voice to soothe and bless ! 



What hope of answer or redress ? 

 Behind the veil, behind the veil. 



ADDRESS TO THE MEMBERS OF THE TYNESIDE 

 JS^ATUEALISTS' FIELD CLIJB, 



KEAD BY THE PEESIDENT, BEV. A. M. NOKMAN, M.A., D.O.L., P.LS., ETC., 

 AT THE THIRTY-FIFTH ANNIVEESABY MEETING, HELD IN THE 

 MUSEUM OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, NEWCASTLE-UPON- 

 TYNE, ON FRIDAY, MAY 27th, 1881. 



Ladies and Gentlemen, — On bringing to a close my tenure of 

 the office of President of the Tyneside IS'aturalists' Field Club I 

 purpose to address you on two subjects. First, I shall, in ac- 

 cordance with precedent, place on record the proceedings of the 

 Club during the past year ; and secondly, I hope to give a brief 

 sketch of some part of our present knowledge with respect to 

 the Abyss of the Ocean.*' 



PART I.— PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB. 



Our First Field Meeting was held at Dilston and the Devil's 

 Water, on "Whit Monday, June 6th. The day being a holiday, 

 and the weather remarkably fine, about one hundred members 

 and friends alighted at Corbridge. Most of the party visited the 

 old Castle of the Derwentwaters, and then wended their way 



* The second part only of the Address was read. 



