president's addeess. 15d 



ADDRESS TO THE MEMBERS OF THE TYI^ESIDE 

 NATURALISTS' EIELD CLUB, 



BEAD BY THE PKESIDENT, E. I. J. BEOWELL, ESQ., AT THE THIBTT- 

 SIXTH ANNIVEESAEY MEETING, HELD IN THE MUSEUM OP THE 

 NATUEAL HISTOEY SOCIETY, NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, ON PEIDAY, 

 MAY llTH, 1882. 



Lames and Gentlemen, — The time has now arrived when it be- 

 comes my duty to vacate the position of President of your So- 

 ciety. "When your Committee last year paid me the compliment 

 of proposing that I should be nominated for the office, I repre- 

 sented to them, as strongly as I was able to do, that it is very 

 desirable that this position should be held by some one more en- 

 titled to be considered a Naturalist, and whose name and reputa- 

 tion in that respect should rather add to the prestige of the 

 Club, and I was in hopes, even to the last moment, that a gentle- 

 man pre-eminently entitled to the honour would have been in- 

 duced to undertake its duties; he, however, pleaded the pressure 

 of Natural History labours impending and in hand, labours of 

 which the lovers of Natural History in this neighbourhood will, 

 through the Natural History Society, reap the benefits. I also 

 represented that I was likely to be so much from home during 

 the summer and autumn that my attendance at the Eield Meet- 

 ings could not be what it ought ; however the members at their 

 meeting at this time last year thought fit to elect me for the 

 second time, I having had the honour of holding the same office 

 thirteen years ago. Owing to my having been unable to attend 

 many of the meetings, I am mainly indebted to the notes of what 

 took place, supplied to me by my friend Mr. Howse. 



The FiEST Field Meeting of the year was held at Corbridge, 

 on Whit Monday. Though the state of the weather in Newcastle 

 was most unpromising, a large party of members and friends left 

 the Central Station by the 10.20 train. Passing through heavy 

 showers for the most part of the short journey the members 

 Were delighted to meet with fine weather on their arrival at their 



