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adjacent Sea. In concluding the paper he said that in former 

 years the use of the trawl-net was quite unknown on the East 

 Coast and the northern part of the British Islands ; but since the 

 introduction of trawls, and their increased use, many rare fishes 

 and other creatures which were before accounted rare, and many 

 which were unknown as inhabitants of the J^orth Sea, were 

 now found to be some of them abundant with others which are 

 quite new to this part of the British Coast. No one had at- 

 tempted a systematic catalogue of our local fishes, or, indeed, 

 to form a special collection of them. This remark applied more 

 particularly to the shore fishes, or those that live chiefly in the 

 rock pools between high and low water mark, such as the Gobies 

 and Blennies, and other small fishes which are not likely to be 

 captured by fishermen, and are only occasionally thrown up on 

 the shore after severe gales. This Catalogue forms a part of the 

 Nat. Hist. Transactions, Vol. X. 



Obituary Notices. 



During the past year we have to record the loss of several of 

 our members by removal from the neighbourhood and a few by 

 death. Among the latter we deplore the loss of one of our 

 entomological workers, Mr. Matthew Henderson, whose quiet 

 and unassuming gentle manners endeared him to all who had the 

 pleasure of his acquaintance. Mr. "Wright has obligingly com- 

 municated the following short notice of our esteemed member. 



Mr. Matthew Henderson was a native of Kirkley, near Ponte- 

 land, where his father resided, and where his early years were 

 spent. He followed the profession of a gardener, and was in 

 the employ of several gentlemen in the county of Northumber- 

 land ; and eventually he settled at Fenham, near this town, as 

 gardener to the late Mr. James Archbold. On the opening of 

 All Saints' Cemeteiy at the Minories he was appointed Superin- 

 tendent of that place, which position he held up to the time of 

 his death, April 21st, 1890, having held the appointment nearly 

 forty years. His leisure was devoted to the study of botany, 

 entomology, and conchology to some little extent. In 1876 

 he became a member of the Field Club, and was an occasional 



