NATURAL HISTORY TRANSACTIONS 



OF 



NORTHUMBERLAND, DURHAM, AND NEWCASTLE- 

 UPON-TYNE. 



ADDRESS TO THE MEMBERS OF THE TYNESIDE 

 NATURALISTS' FIELD CLUB, 



BEAD BY THE PEESIDENT, THE EEV. J. M. HICK, AT THE POETY-FIEST 

 ANNIVEESAEY MEETING, HELD IN THE COMMITTEE BOOM OF THE 

 LITEEAEY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, 

 ON MONDAY, MAY 16th, 1887. 



Ladies and Gentlemen, — The time has come that at the expira- 

 tion of my year of office as President of the Tyneside Naturalists' 

 Field Club, I should, according to custom, recount the results 

 of our meetings during the past year. A duty which, although 

 you did me the honour to elect me to the position of your Presi- 

 dent, I am but too conscious I shall most inadequately fulfil. 

 My resolutions were very good, and I purposed to have given, 

 as far as I could, a summary of the various scientific events and 

 discoveries of the past year, but procrastination, that well-known 

 thief of time, stepped in, and having delayed until the new year 

 had dawned, illness of myself, of members of my family, and of 

 my rector, all combined to prevent my proposed task being 

 undertaken ; and I am compelled to meet you with a mere bald 

 account of our Field excursions. It may not, I think, be out 

 of place to mention here, that I think it is rather a pity that a 

 little more of the study of Natural History in its out-door form 

 does not form a more prominent feature in our Field excursions. 

 "We seem to be more an Antiquarian and Architectural Society 



