REPORT OF THE COUNCIL V 



on the traces left by the Ice Age in Northumberland. Some 

 papers are now in hand for the next issue. There is also a 

 prospect of an addition to the series of museum catalogues. 

 There has long been a need for a catalogue of the original 

 drawings and woodcuts by Thomas Bewick shown on the 

 gallery of the zoology room. Mr. E. Bewick Ward has now 

 offered to have such a catalogue printed at his own expense, 

 and Mr. W. H. Gibson, of the Newcastle Public Libraries 

 staff, is kindly preparing the text in his spare time. 



The Hancock Prize Competition for 1913-14 had a special 

 interest owing to the President's offer of three extra prizes — 

 a second prize of the value of ^2 in the main competition, 

 and prizes of the value of 25s. and 15s. for competitors under 

 sixteen years of age. The first prize in the senior competition 

 was won by Mr. P. Charlton of Chopwell, the second by Mr. 

 J. Buckle of Darlington. In the junior section the first and 

 second prizes were won respectively by Miss Mamie B. 

 Richardson (aged 9) and Miss Jessie M. Thomson (aged 11). 

 The duties of judging the essays were kindly and very 

 efficiently discharged by the Rev. J. E. Hull and Mr. George 

 Bolam. 



Among the members of the Natural History Society lost 

 during the year by death were two whose active interest in its 

 work dated from considerably before the building of the 

 Hancock Museum. Mr. E. J. J. Browell was for many years 

 a member of the committee and a trustee, and later as 

 senior vice-president he usually occupied the chair at the 

 Council meetings. His scientific interests lay chiefly in the 

 direction of mineralogy and petrology. Mr. James S. Forster 

 was an old and admiring friend of Mr. Hancock ; even when 

 he had become completely an invalid one of his greatest 

 pleasures was to be wheeled round the bird room. Death has 

 also deprived the Society of the very competent services of Miss 

 Emily Welford, who for eight years had been on the Museum 

 staff as lady secretary and typist. She had adapted herself 

 with such success to her position, and had become so estab- 

 lished in it, that her loss was very seriously felt. During her 



