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in them shall be distinguished by some mark to show that they 

 refer to the lists. 



12. — That these lists, the address of the President, and any 

 other papers communicated to the Club which the committee 

 may deem suitable for publication, shall be printed, in conjunc- 

 tion with similar papers of the Natural History Society, in a 

 cheap octavo form, under the name of the "I^atural History 

 Transactions of JSTorthumberland and Durham," and distributed 

 gratuitously to all the members whose subscriptions are not in 

 arrear. 



13. — That the Club shall endeavour to discourage the practice 

 of removing rare plants from the localities of which they are 

 characteristic, and of risking the extermination of rare birds and 

 other animals by wanton persecution ; that the members be re- 

 quested to use their influence with landowners and others, for 

 the protection of the characteristic birds of the country, and to 

 dispel the prejudices which are leading to their destruction ; and 

 that consequently the rarer botanical specimens collected at the 

 Pield Meetings be chiefly such as can be gathered without dis- 

 turbing the roots of the plants ; and that notes on the habits of 

 birds be accumulated instead of specimens, by which our closet 

 collections would be enriched only at the expense of nature's 

 great museum out of doors. That in like manner the Club shall 

 endeavour to cultivate a fuller knowledge of the local antiquities, 

 historical, popular, and idiomatic, and to promote a taste for 

 carefully preserving the monuments of the past from wanton 

 injury. 



