REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY 



OF 



NORTHUMBERLAND, DURHAM, AND NEWCASTLE- 

 UPON-TYNE 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 



FOR 1914-1915. 



The year under review has been overshadowed by the Great 

 European War, which broke out about the time when the last 

 Annual Report was drawn up and which has made its effects 

 felt throughout the world. With the thoughts of everyone 

 dominated by this terrible struggle it was to be expected 

 that there would be less interest in the work of Natural 

 History. This has proved to be the case. 



Immediately war began, Armstrong College was taken 

 over by the Government as a Military Hospital. In conse- 

 quence of this action other centres had to be found in which 

 to carry on its educational work : and in this the Natural 

 History Society has been able to co-operate by granting the 

 use of certain portions of the Hancock Museum. The east 

 and west corridors, both upper and lower, as well as the 

 library, were placed at the disposal of the Council of the 

 College, and in these the biological sections. Geology, 

 Zoology, Botany and Mineralogy, and Art, including Arts 

 and Crafts, have been housed. It has been a source of 

 satisfaction and pleasure to your Council to have been able 

 to assist in this important work. The use of the library 

 during one week early in June for the purpose of holding the 

 Cambridge Higher Local Examination has also been help of 

 a similar nature. 



