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year has passed over into a deficit. It is not yet clear how 

 the difficulty will be met ; but there can be no doubt that the 

 most satisfactory solution would be a greatly augmented 

 annual subscription list, and the Council would most earnestly 

 urge upon members the need for their co-operation to attain 

 this end. 



It has frequently been said that too little is known about 

 the museum in the town and district. In the hope of remedy- 

 ing this to some extent, a series of articles on the history and 

 present circumstances of the museum and the Society were 

 prepared by the Curator, and were published during the 

 winter, with a number of illustrations, in the " Newcastle 

 Daily Chronicle." The Society is much indebted to the 

 proprietors of this paper for the publicity given to the articles. 

 Believing that many members will like to have such a record 

 of the history of the institution in permanent form, the Council 

 have ordered it to be printed as an appendix to the current 

 issue of the Transactions. A limited number of reprints in 

 pamphlet form can also be supplied for special purposes. 



Of the Society's Transactions, a part has not been actually 

 issued during the year. Volume III., New Series, part i, has 

 been almost ready to send out for some time, but has been 

 kept back in order to include some important additional 

 matter. Among the papers appearing in it are a further con- 

 tribution on the Trematodes of the Northumberland coast, by 

 Miss M. V. Lebour; a report on rare Arachnids captured in 

 1907, by Dr. A. Randell Jackson; a description and explana- 

 tion, by Dr. J. A. Smythe, of the glacial phenomena of the 

 country between the Tyne and the Wansbeck ; the concluding 

 part of Col. C. H. E. Adamson's catalogue of his collection 

 of Burmese butterflies ; a paper on some special Allendale 

 spiders, by the Rev. J. E. Hull; and descriptions of some 

 remarkable new Thysanoptera or thrips, by Mr. R. S. 

 Bagnall. 



A special Publication Fund was raised last year to meet 

 the unusually heavy charges that were being incurred at that 

 time in the publication of the Transactions. The Treasurer's 



