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NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY 



OF 



NOETHTJMBEELAND, DURHAM, AND I^EWCASTLE- 

 UPON-TTNE. 



ANNUAL MEETING, AUGUST 11th, 1887. 



EEPORT, 1878—1887. 



Seveeal years have now elapsed since the Committee reported 

 their proceedings to the members of the Society. It is therefore 

 necessary to state that during this time they have been fully 

 occupied and giving special attention to the erecting and fit- 

 ting-up a large and commodious building for their Museum, 

 to which the valuable collections of the Society have been re- 

 moved, and in which they are now arranged. 



Eor many years the necessity was felt of having a larger and 

 more extensive series of rooms for the display of the extensive 

 and gradually increasing collections of the Society, and also a 

 buUding situated in a more desirable and public part of the town. 

 In the last Report it was stated that there was a prospect of the 

 Society being placed in a position to provide a new building for 

 the accommodation of the collections, a few gentlemen greatly 

 interested in the welfare of the Society having come forward 

 most generously to support the project with a promise of the 

 larger portion of the funds required for the erection of a larger 

 building. 



