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SUBSCRIPTIONS ALREADY PROMISED. 



Lord Armstrong £50 



H. Seebohm, Esq., See. R.G.S., London 10 



Rev. PL E. Fox, M. A., Durham 10 



Rev, Canon Tristram, F.R.S., Durham 10 



A. P. Harrison, Esq., Newcastle-on-Tyne 5 



J. H. Gurney, Esq., F.Z.S., Keswick Hall, Norwich... 2 



G. H.Philipson, Esq., M.D., Newcastle-on-Tyne 2 



R. Y. Green, Esq., Newcastle-on-Tyne 110 



Subscribers' names will be received by Eev. Canon Tristram, 

 College, Durham, and Mr. "Wright, The Museum, Barras Bridge, 

 Newcastle-on-Tyne." 



The additions to the Library during the year consist of about 

 130 parts and volumes of Transactions which have been received 

 in exchange with other Societies. Miss Smith, of Long Benton, 

 has obligingly presented a very valuable collection of Books form- 

 ing the library of the late Thomas J. Bold, of Long Benton. Mr. 

 Bold was a well-known Coleopterist and Naturalist of our dis- 

 trict, and the books contained in his library, consisting chiefly 

 of works on Insects, form a very important addition. Mr. Bold's 

 extensive and valuable collection of Local Coleoptera was pre- 

 sented shortly after his death by his brother Edwin Bold, of 

 Long Benton. The other donation that may be specially men- 

 tioned is a fine copy of Curtis' "Elora Londinensis," presented 

 by Mr. E. Y. Green. 



In Zoology, Mr. George Allan's Swazieland collection, con- 

 sisting of horns of the Kudu, Pallah, Eeitbock, Burchell's Gnu, 

 etc., has been received, and these horns are now all arranged 

 in the Entrance Hall. About seventy other specimens of Mam- 

 mals, Birds, Fishes, and Reptiles have been added to the collec- 

 tions, chiefly presents from E. "Wallis, Esq., Eoss, Herefordshire; 

 E. C. Clephan; George Crawhall; E. L. Proudlock; Charles 

 Liddell, Esq., Sandhoe; John Eobinson, North Shields; E. H. 

 Phillips ; John Duncan ; J. Jackson, and others. A full list of 

 the New Zealand birds and also of the South Sea curiosities 

 collected by Miss Julia Boyd, and ethnological presents by Mr. 



