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and apparent. From this point conveyances took the majority of 

 the party to Middleton, and after dinner most of them left for 

 ISTewcastle, haying enjoyed, notwithstanding the very unfavour- 

 able weather, a pleasant visit to Teesdale. Eleven ladies and 

 gentlemen were proposed and elected members of the Club. 



Thied Yield Meeting. — About eight members left the Central 

 Station for Bellingham by the 6.20 train, and after breakfasting 

 together they proceeded to explore the heaps of the old iron 

 works for fossils and to botanize over the neighbourhood till the 

 arrival of the President and main body of the party. They then, 

 after short delay, proceeded up the Hareshaw Burn, the road 

 being now made passable through the dense underwood by the 

 thoughtful kindness of the late Mr. Charlton of Hesleyside. 

 iN'umbers of interesting plants were observed, among them being 

 fine specimens of Neottia nidus-avis, the Butterfly, and other 

 Orchids, the Enchanter's Nightshade and Pencil Yetch, Beech- 

 Oak and many other Eerns growing in tropical richness and 

 profusion, and protected, it is to be hoped, from the ruthless de- 

 struction of wanton excursionists. After viewing the romantic 

 and precipitous sandstone rocks in the neighbourhood of the Lynn 

 a start was made for Callerhues Crag, where, at a height of nearly 

 twelve hundred feet, very extensive views can be obtained of the 

 surrounding and distant landscape. Erom this point a descent 

 was made to the inn at Bellingham, over moor and peat bogs and 

 grassy hillocks, the fine weather and fresh mountain air render- 

 ing the walk most exhilarating. Two land shells, unusual in 

 such high situations. Helix lamellosa and Azeca tridens, were col- 

 lected by one of the party, and the little Erog Orchis (S. viridis, 

 Br.) and another, perhaps Orchis maculata var., was abundant 

 among the heather. The Crossleaved and Black Heath and the 

 Common Ling were in some spots in full flower. More than 

 twenty members dined together, and afterwards visited the 

 Church, under the guidance of the Eev. B. B. Powell, who 

 pointed out the peculiar features of its architecture, the most re- 

 markable being its fire-proof stone roof, an interesting memorial 

 of the wild times when churches were liable to be burned down 



