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NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY 



NORTHUMBERLAND, DURHAM, AND NEWCASTLE- 

 UPON-TYNE. 



ANNUAL MEETING, 12th JULY, 1889. 



REPORT, 1888—1889, 



In reviewing the work of the past eleven months, and present- 

 ing to the members a report of their labours and proceedings, 

 the Committee wish to draw attention to the following particu- 

 lars, premising that the affairs of the Society, as was to be 

 expected after the novelty of the first opening of the New 

 Building had passed off, have gone in a progressive way ; much 

 attention having been given to the improving and perfecting the 

 arrangement of the different collections, in keeping the Building 

 in an efficient state of repair, and in endeavouring to provide a 

 Maintenance Pund, that will enable the Committee to complete 

 the furnishing and arrangement of the Museum, by the purchase 

 of cases and specimens of groups of animals not represented at 

 present in the collections. 



It was mentioned in the last Report that the requirement of 

 additional funds for carrying out the objects of the Society 

 would be best secured by the promotion of a Maintenance Pund, 

 and the increase of the number of members or subscribers 

 through the influence of the present members. A Maintenance 

 Pund was accordingly established, and several very handsome 

 donations have been given to this fund, but it is to be regretted 

 that the number of contributors during the latter part of the 



