238 EEPOKT OF THE COMMITTEE. 



OBITUARY NOTICES, 



Since the last Annual Meeting the Society has had to deplore 

 the loss by death of several of its earliest and influential mem- 

 bers, who have from the commencement taken an active part in 

 the advancement and welfare of the Society. 



Sir "Walter Calverley Trevelyan, Eart., of Wallington, became 

 a member with his father Sir John Trevelyan and other members 

 of the family from the first in 1829. He was one of the first 

 Vice-Presidents, and one of the early contributions to the Trans- 

 actions was his paper on the Little Whin Sill, an intercalated bed 

 of igneous rock in the Three Yard Limestone, near Stanhope, in 

 Weardale. This interesting paper, though written at this early 

 date, is the most important yet written on this subject. Sir 

 Walter contributed other papers on the Whin of Northumberland 

 to one of the Edinburgh scientific periodicals, and he lost no 

 opportunity of collecting fossils and minerals from the rocks of 

 his own country and other parts of Europe. He delighted in 

 and fostered a taste for botanical pursuits, collecting and drying 

 plants in all the localities visited. Many plants and specimens 

 of rocks and minerals were presented to the Society during his 

 lifetime, and he bequeathed by will his local collection of fossils 

 and birds and the sum of £100, 



Ealph Carr, Esq., of Dunston Hill and Hedgeley, afterwards 

 Ralph Carr-EUison, Esq., became a member of the Society in 

 1830, and Yice-President in 1845, which office he held to the 

 last, frequently presiding at important meetings, and taking in- 

 terest in the welfare of the Society, and cordially approving all 

 the endeavours of the Committee in advancing the objects aimed 

 at by the iN'atural History Society, the spreading abroad a taste 

 for the refining pursuits of Natural History, and the collecting 

 and preserving rare specimens for a Museum of reference. In 

 1846, Mr. Carr, in connection with a few other members of the 

 Society, inaugurated the Tyneside Naturalists' Eield Club, which 

 held its first meeting on May 20th of that year, Mr. Carr being 



