22 PEESIDENTIAL ADDEESS, 



ADDEESS TO THE MEMBEES OE THE TYNESIDE 

 l^ATTJEALISTS' EIELD CLUB, 



BEAD BY THE PEESIDENT, THE EEV. CANON TEISTEAM, LL.D., F.R.S., 

 ETC., AT THE POETT-FOUETH ANNIVEESAEY MEETING, HELD IN 

 THE COMMITTEE EOOM OF THE LITEEAEY AND PHILOSOPHICAL 

 SOCIETY, NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, ON FEIDAY, MAY 30lH, 1890. 



Ladies and Gentlemen, — For the third time in the course of 

 forty years I have the honour of addressing the members of the 

 Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club from the President's chair. 

 In accordance with time-honoured custom it is my duty to re- 

 capitulate the circumstances and incidents of the various meetings 

 in field or hall held during the year ; and with deep regret and 

 many apologies I must begin by acknowledging my own short- 

 comings, and the fact that I only on one excursion appeared in 

 my place amongst you. But I am certain the members will 

 extend some kind forbearance to their President when he assures 

 them that his absence was in every instance caused either by 

 illness or by the unavoidable demands of official and professional 

 duties. 



The EiEST Field Meeting for 1889 was appointed to be held 

 at Bebside, for Hartford Bridge and a walk along the banks of 

 the river Blyth. The unsettled and threatening state of the 

 weather previous to the 24th of May did not encourage many 

 members to join in this excursion, and the difficulty of finding 

 a suitable place for refreshment at the end of a long walk obliged 

 the Secretaries to arrange the excursion by the Blyth and Tyne 

 Eailway to Bedlington, instead of the shorter route by the 

 I^orth Eastern. In the unavoidable absence of our President, 

 the Eev. Canon Tristram, our energetic Yice-President, Dr. 

 Embleton, kindly acted as chairman and conductor of the meet- 

 ing. The railway routes north from !N"ewcastle pass through 

 the least interesting and most uninviting portion of Northumber- 

 land. A uniform, dull-looking, flat piece of country, with 

 only a few elevations to relieve the monotonous level, occupies, 

 as is well known, all the south-east corner of the county from 



