190 REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY 



OF 



NORTHUMBERLAND, DURHAM, AND NEWCASTLE- 

 UPON-TYNE. 



REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 



FOR I 903-1 904. 



The work of the Society during the past year has followed 

 closely on the lines of that of the year preceding it. As 

 regards membership there has been a further gain; 41 new 

 members have been elected, and there has been a loss of 22 

 through death and resignation, leaving the total at 346, as 

 against 327 at the end of the last year of the Society. The 

 roll of membership has also been increased by the inclusion 

 of 87 former members of the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club, 

 who were received as members of the Society by the terms of 

 the amalgamation concluded at the last Annual Meeting on 

 October 14th, 1903. 



The Evening Meetings held during the winter have been of 

 the same nature as those of last year ; that is to say, they 

 have taken the form of lectures, open to the public, and 

 illustrated by means of the lantern. They have been very 

 well attended on the whole, and have appeared to arouse a 

 great deal of interest. The Society is very much indebted 

 to the lecturers for the large amount of time and trouble 

 which they have willingly expended in preparing them. The 

 series was as follows : — 



Nov. 18.— Mr. R. C. Clephan, F.S.A. : "Ancient Egypt," Part II.; 

 chair taken by Mr. N. H. Martin, F.R.S.E. 



Jan. 13. — Mr. John Bidgood, B.Sc. : "The Phenomenon of Plant 

 Species" ; chair taken by Mr, Norman C. Cookson, F.R.H.S. 



Feb. 17. — Dr. A. Randell Jackson, M.Sc. : " Mimicry" ; chair taken 

 by Mr. Ernest Scott. 



