REPORT OF FIELD MEETINGS I49 



KEPORT OF THE FIELD MEETINGS OF THE NATURAL 

 HISTORY SOCIETY FOR 1906 



Read April i2TH, 1907, by Mr. Richard Adamson, 



Chairman of the Field Meetings Committee 



FOR 1906 



Alderman Harkus, Members of the Natural History 

 Society, and Ladies and Gentlemen, — Twelve months ago, 

 when the Field Committee of the Natural History Society- 

 offered me the presidency or chairmanship (to use the more 

 modern appellation) of the field section, I accepted the honour 

 with great reluctance and consideration, and began its duties 

 with much diffidence as undeserving of such high apprecia- 

 tion. 



To-night in rendering an account of my stewardship, in 

 giving you a resume of the field work during the past session, 

 in accordance with the usual custom, I feel my shortcomings 

 even more than at the commencement, when I call to remem- 

 brance some of the eminent and distinguished men preceding 

 me who have addressed the Tyneside Naturalists on the 

 retrospective field work of past years. 



Perhaps I have little or nothing new to tell you to-night, 

 as we have practically re-visited old haunts, ploughing a little 

 deeper and tilling the soil a little better it may be ; but I am 

 glad to report a large increase in attendance of members — 

 new as well as famihar faces — who have taken a great interest 

 in the proceedings and shewn a willing and earnest disposition 

 to learn a little from the pages of Nature's book, as bounti- 

 fully revealed to us in our bye-paths and frequented spots. 



In the subject matter of my address I have endeavoured as 

 far as possible to dispense with technical phraseology and 

 scientific nomenclature, and have adopted the style of descrip- 

 tion I usually used in the rambles. 



