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of Northumberland and Durham have not been fully searched 

 for their Fossil remains or carefully catalogued. The Coal- 

 measure Flora has only been very partially and imperfectly 

 investigated, and here a rich field lies open, for future research, 

 which can only be successfully carried out by local observers. 

 Many groups of the animal kingdom have only been partially 

 touched, as the Crustacea, etc., etc. ; and most of the groups of 

 minute plants and animals are entirely unrecorded. Much then 

 remains for future investigators, and many other new fields of 

 research will, undoubtedly, open out. 



In May last the Committee decided to form a temporary 

 Picture Gallery in the upper "West Corridor of the Museum 

 until a permanent Art Gallery is established in the city. It is 

 intended to limit the exhibition to the works of celebrated local 

 artists, now deceased, and a circular has been issued to ladies 

 and gentlemen known to possess such pictures, inviting them to 

 contribute to such an exhibition. 



The Committee have been much indebted to Mr. Alderman 

 T. P. Barkas, F.G.S, for a series of lectures to the young, on 

 the collections in the Museum. These lectures were given every 

 Saturday morning in the months of January, February, and 

 March. At the first lecture nine hundred juveniles attended, 

 but this number being much too large, the other lectures were 

 limited to two hundred, and an average attendance of above one 

 hundred juveniles was secured. 



During the past year the Society has lost twenty-two mem- 

 bers : there have been fourteen resignations and eight deaths. 

 Amongst the latter we regret the loss of Mr. Henry "Watson, 

 of Millfield House, who was for many years a member of the 

 Committee, and took an active interest in the welfare of the 

 Society. As stated in the last report Mr. "Watson had moulds 

 prepared from the Eagles modelled by Mr. Hancock, and metal 

 castings made from these, which are now placed on the pillars at 

 the Entrance Gates. 



Thirty-two new members have been elected during the year, 



