NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY 



OF 



NORTHUMBERLAND, DURHAM, AND NEWCASTLE- 

 UPON-TYNE 



REPORT ON THE FIELD MEETINGS OF THE NATURAL 

 HISTORY SOCIETY FOR 1913. 



Read March i8th, 1914, by Mr. Edwin Burnup, Chairman 

 OF THE Field Meetings' Committee for 1913. 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, — When your 

 Committee a year ago elected me chairman of the Field 

 Section of the Natural History Society I felt they had conferred 

 upon me an honour I little deserved, and it was with very 

 great diffidence I undertook the responsibility of presiding at 

 your Field Meetings. In presenting my report of the six 

 meetings held during 1913 (all of which I was able to attend) 

 I am able to state that we were favoured on the whole by fine 

 weather; the attendance of members was fairly good, but I 

 should have liked to have seen a larger number of the 

 younger ones present, because it is upon them we have to 

 depend to carry on the work of this Society in after years. 

 On Saturday, July 12, by the kindness of the Vale of Derwent 

 Field Club, our members were invited to join their meeting at 

 Blanchland, and six of our members were present. Un- 

 fortunately I have no report of the proceedings. 



From October to February five informal evening meetings 

 have been held at the Museum for the examination and dis- 

 cussion of interesting specimens, &c. These meetings have 

 not been as well attended by the members as was hoped. 



The First Field Meeting of the season was held at 

 Mitford on Saturday, May 3rd. It was a half-day excursion 

 and was favoured with fine weather. A party of 24 in all 



