36 KEPOET OF THE COMMITTEE. 



NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY 



NORTHUMBERLAND, DURHAM, AND NEWCASTLE- 

 UPON-TYNE. 



ANNUAL MEETING, 19th JULY, 1890. 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE, 1889—1890. 



The Society ends the sixty-first year of its existence with a 

 roll of 315 members. Twenty-four new members were elected 

 during the past year, while eleven have died and three resigned. 



The Committee regret that notwithstanding the great increase 

 in the local population, the number of members still increases 

 so slowly. Whilst proud of possessing a Museum which only 

 last September was characterised by the President of the British 

 Association as one "which in some of its features is a model for 

 institutions of its kind," the Committee feel that the work of 

 the Society is being unnecessarily and even painfully crippled 

 for lack of funds, and they would again appeal not only to their 

 members but to the public to aid them in the two following 

 ways, viz., (1) By endeavouring to secure a large increase in 

 the number of annual subscribers, (2) By contributions to the 

 " Maintenance Fund." 



During the past year the British Association for the Promo- 

 tion of Science visited Newcastle for the third time, twenty-six 

 years having elapsed since their second visit. The meeting was 

 doubly interesting to this Society, as Professor Flower, the head 

 of the Natural History Museum at South Kensington, was 



