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ADDEESS TO THE MEMBERS OP THE TYNESIDE 

 NATURALISTS' FIELD CLUB, 



BEAD BY THE PEESIDENT, GEORGE S. BEADY, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., ETO„ 

 PEOFESSOR OP NATUEAL HISTOEY IN THE DUEHAM COLLEGE OF 

 SCIENCE, NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, AT THE FOETY-SEVENTH ANNI- 

 VEESAEY, HELD IN THE LIBEARY OF THE MUSEUM OF THE NATUEAL 

 HISTORY SOCIETY ON TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 16th, 1893. 



Ladies and Gentlemen, -=--"Wheii, last year, you did me the 

 honour to re-elect me as your President, I believe I made one 

 promise, — and one only. That one I rather think I am going 

 deliberately to break. I said that I would not again put upon 

 you the pain of listening to a long anniversary address, and, at 

 the time, I meant it. I, for one, had had enough of it, — but I 

 have recuperated, — and perhaps I am attaining also to something 

 of the garrulity of age. But the fact is that the subject of our 

 fisheries has come before me with a good deal of interest during 

 the past year, and I think it may serve a good purpose if I ask 

 you to spare me an hour or so for the consideration of it. 



My first duty, however, is to present to you a short account 

 of last year's meetings. 



The EiRST Field Meeting of the year (1892) was held on 

 "Whit Monday, the 6th of June, at Dunstanborough and Emble- 

 ton. The day was beautifully fine and there was a good muster 

 of members, — about thirty, amongst whom were several ladies. 

 The party left Newcastle by the 8.20 a.m. train and alighted at 

 Little Mill Station, where they were met by Mr. Howse, who 

 had been spending some days in the neighbourhood and had pre- 

 viously explored the route, which lay by CuUernose and Craster 

 to Dunstanborough, and thence to the adjacent village of Emble- 

 ton. The basaltic crags of this part of the coast are of great 

 interest and at Dunstanborough are wonderfully picturesque, 

 being not only lofty but very much broken and irregular in out- 

 line, and distinctly columnar. An interesting paper on the his- 

 tory of the place was read among the crumbling ruins by Mr. 

 Adamson. Several noteworthy plants were seen, as for instance, 



