222 EEPOET OF THE COMMITTEE. 



NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY 



NORTHUMBERLAND, DURHAM, AND NEWCASTLE- 

 UPON-TTNE. 



ANNUAL MEETING, 28th SEPTEMBER, 1892. 



REPORT EOR 1891-1892. 



The Committee, in presenting their Report for the past year to 

 the members of the Natural History Society, have to mention 

 in the first place that the general work of the Museum and the 

 increase of the collections — the number of members and the 

 financial position of the Society — the attendance of the general 

 public and the amount of fees taken at the door for admission — 

 have been much the same as in the preceding year. 



The amount of fees for admission is £196 : 18 : 10, which is 

 a slight decrease from the receipts of last year. This deficiency 

 occurred at Whitsuntide, when owing perhaps to the remarkably 

 fine weather at that time, and also partly to the long-continued 

 strikes in the neighbourhood, the receipts for the week shewed 

 a decrease of £14 compared with the receipts for the same week 

 in former years. The total number of admissions from June 

 30th, 1891, to June 25th, 1892, was about 30,000. This num- 

 ber compares favourably with the attendance in former years, 

 though it indicates the attendance of a greater number of young 

 people. 



The permanent installation of the electric light into all the 

 rooms of the Museum was mentioned in the last report, and a 



