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share in its advancement. He saw the ripened fruit of his 

 labours, and he was permitted to look back with satisfaction to 

 the interesting and not inglorious past of the Club he had 

 founded. 



Mr. Carr-Ellison — then Mr. Carr, for he assumed the name of 

 Ellison on acquiring the landed estates of a relative— was a 

 country gentleman whose kindliness of heart and whose culti- 

 vated mind gained for him the regard and respect of all who 

 came in contact with him. He was a naturalist and a scholar. 

 Scandinavian language and lore, in which he was well learned, 

 had special attractions for him. Decided in manner, and not 

 easily turned from his carefully formed opinions, he was well 

 qualified to carry his views to successful issues ; and, if we turn 

 to the original rules of our Club, we see the wisdom with which 

 they were drawn. 



This Club was the second Naturalists' Field Club founded in 

 this country. The first was the Berwickshire Club, founded 

 in 1831 by Dr. Greorge Johnston, of Berwick, and of that Club 

 Mr. Carr was a member. Encouraged by the fact that it had 

 succeeded in adding to the lists of the Flora and the Fauna, not 

 only of Berwickshire, but of Great Britain itself, and this "by 

 means as delightful as the end," Mr. Carr conceived and carried 

 out the idea of forming a similar Club for ]!Torthumberland and 

 Durham. The first meeting for its promotion was held in New- 

 castle, in the rooms of the Natural History Society, on the 25th 

 of April, 1846. The Yicar of Newcastle, the Eev. R. C. Coxe, 

 was in the chair. Mr. Carr moved the first resolution, which 

 was that the Eules I have referred to be adopted for the 

 guidance of the new Club. The thanks of the meeting were 

 voted to Mr. Carr "for having suggested, and for his exertions 

 in the formation of the Club," and he was elected its first Presi- 

 dent, which position he again held in a later year. 



As to the Eules, they provided, inter alia, that five Field 

 Meetings be held each year; that the members were to breakfast 

 together at the nearest country inn ; and that when the work of 

 the day was over, a dinner was to be partaken of, for which the 

 chairman of the day was to arrange, and which it was stipulated 



