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of ''museum talks" will be found as an appendix to the 

 Curator's report on museum work. 



As was stated in the last year's report, notice had been 

 received from the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club of their 

 intention to terminate their agreement with the Society. 

 Your Committee are glad to be able to report that this 

 intention was not carried out, but that on the other hand the 

 Field Club has given its consent to a scheme of amalgama- 

 tion which now only requires the approval of the members of 

 the Natural History Society, to whom it is to be submitted at 

 the present Annual Meeting. The main points of the scheme, 

 which has already been accepted by the two Committees and 

 by a general meeting of the Field Club members, are as 

 follows : The Natural History Society to take over the assets 

 and liabilities of the Field Club, and to receive the present 

 members of the Club as members of the Society at the same 

 subscription (five shillings) as they have formerly paid as 

 members of the Club, this subscription, however, not entitling 

 them to any share in the property of the Society : the Natural 

 History Society also to continue to hold the field meetings 

 organized in the past by the Field Club. 



Pending the final settlement of the amalgamation, a series 

 of field meetings has been arranged for the present summer 

 by a provisional committee. As the field meetings under the 

 new auspices are open to a much larger number of members, 

 it was hoped that a considerable improvement in the atten- 

 dances would result. This hope has so far, however, in most 

 cases been disappointed. A record of the meetings will 

 appear in the Transactions. 



The change of relationship with the Field Club is being 

 iriade the occasion of entering upon a new series of Trans- 

 actions. The first part of the new series is now in the 

 printers' hands ; but there still remains another volume, com- 

 prising the second part (Microlepidoptera) of Mr. J. E. 

 Robson's catalogue of the local butterflies and moths, to 

 conclude the old series. - 



