200 peesident's addeess. 



•wherL the whole party consisted almost entirely of naturalists, as 

 it often did in the early days of the Berwickshire Club. 



The FoiJETH Field Meeting was held at Melrose on August 

 24th and 25th. One of the secretaries and two or three mem- 

 bers and friends visited Melrose on this excursion, but as the 

 parties travelled by different trains and did not meet till return- 

 ing home, each member carried out his own programme. 



The FiEXH Field Meeting — if that can be called a meeting 

 when one member met himself or his thoughts — was at Bead- 

 neil, on Monday, September 21st. The weather was fearfully 

 rough and stormy, and it is not wonderful that even the attrac- 

 tions of that interesting piece of our coast-line failed to draw. 

 Our energetic Secretary, Mr. Thos. Thompson, constituted the 

 party, and he tells me that he carefully carried out his own 

 directions as conveyed to the members by circular, — including, 

 I suppose, the eating of the dinner, — but the state of the weather 

 prevented his seeing his co-secretary, Mr. Howse, who was some- 

 where thereabouts. 



The old favourite resort, Marsden Eock, was the scene of the 

 Sixth and Last Meeting, on Thursday, October 17th. The 

 atmospheric conditions were " no that bad," but only four mem- 

 bers put in an appearance, — the indefatigable Mr. Thompson, 

 Mr. Pybus, Mr. Cobb, and myself. We had to ourselves the 

 questionable enjoyment of Marsden tea, ham and eggs, notwith- 

 standing which we got to the train safely, — in due time to 

 South Shields, and then by various methods to our respective 

 homes. But one would willingly forego even the luxury of a 

 ride by the Marsden Eailway to have the place restored to its 

 pristine simplicity, such as we remember when pits and rail- 

 ways were not, and when Peter Allen's raven chattered on the 

 beach. 



On Tuesday, the 5th April, of the present year (1892) a joint 

 Evening Meeting of the Natural History Society and the Tyne- 

 side Field Club was held in the Library of the Museum, about 



