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of incorporation would not be sufficient to justify the expense 

 and trouble that would be involved. The matter was brought 

 forward in consequence of the death of Sir Lowthian Bell. 

 By this loss the number of the Trustees was reduced below 

 the number required by the rules ; and as the proposal to 

 incorporate the Society has been abandoned, the election of 

 additional Trustees is on the agenda for the present Annual 

 Meeting. 



In Sir Lowthian Bell the Society has lost not only a Trustee 

 and one of its most distinguished Vice-Presidents, but also one 

 who was by many years its oldest member. He had joined 

 the Society in 1833, only four years after its foundation; the 

 member who now succeeds to the honour was elected in 1850. 

 Sir Lowthian Bell always had a warm interest in the Society's 

 welfare, and he took an active part in the business connected 

 with the founding of the present museum on Barras Bridge. 

 It must be mentioned with regret that we are, for the present 

 at any rate, losing Dr. A. Randell Jackson as a member, 

 owing to his leaving the district. Dr. Jackson was one of 

 our best local naturalists, and is well known as an authority 

 on spiders. The Society is indebted to him for some admir- 

 able lectures and for a valuable technical paper ; and he has 

 further promised to contribute to the Transactions a summary 

 of the results of his collecting and observation in the valley of 

 the Tyne. 



The names of the twenty-five new members elected during 

 the year are given below. The loss by death and resignation 

 has been thirty-two, leaving at the end of the year a member- 

 ship of 340. To these are to be added eleven honorary 

 members and eighty-two former members of the Tyneside 

 Naturalists' Field Club, bringing up the total to 433. 



New Members Elected from July, 1904, to June, 1905. 



Sir Hugh Bell, Bart., Rownton Grange, Northallerton 

 H. F. Bulman, Leazes Hall, Burnopfield, R.S.O. 

 Hugh V. Charlton, Cullercoats. 

 Kenneth Cookson, Oakwood, Wylam. 



