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REPORT ON MUSEUM WORK 



EVENING MEETINGS HELD DURING THE WINTER 



SESSION, 1908-1909. 



Nov. II. — Dr. D. Woolacott : " The Mechanics of Rock Movements" ; 

 chair taken by Mr. J. Alaric Richardson. 



Dec. 9. — Mr. Edward Potts: "Ingenious Contrivances in Plants"; 

 chair taken by Mr. W. Mark Pybus. 



Jan. 13. — Dr. J. A. Smythe : "The Ice Age in South-East Northumber- 

 land " ; chair taken by Mr. Ernest Scott. 



Feb. 10.— Miss M. Temperley, M.A. : "Movement in Plants"; chair 

 taken by Mr. Jos. G. Angus, 



Mar. 10.— Dr. J. T. Dunn : "Metals, Ores and Minerals"; chair taken 

 by Mr. Geo. Jenkins. 



Apr. 7. — Private Evening Meeting of the Society : Report on Field 

 Meetings of the summer of 1908, by Mr. Edward Potts, Chair- 

 man of Field Meetings Committee ; reading by Mr. Chas. Robson 

 (Birtley) of his Hancock Prize Essay, "A Day's Rambling in 

 Mid-July." 



AFTERNOON LECTURES TO CHILDREN 



Dec. 30. — Rev. W. J. Wingate : " A Talk about Flies" ; chair taken by 

 Mr. R. Coltman Clephan, F.S.A. 



Jan. 6. — Rev. Arthur Watts, F.G.S. : "The Story of a Sand Grain" ; 

 chair taken by Sir George Hare Philipson, D.C.L., F.R.C.P. 



CURATOR'S "MUSEUM TALKS" 



Oct. 28. — Some Recent Accessions. 



Nov. 25. — Birds' Nests. 



Dec. 16. — The Sportsman's Birds. 



Jan. 27. — Horns and Hoofs. 



Feb. 27. — A New Collection of Plants from the South of France 

 (by the Rev. W. McLean Brown). 



Mar. 31.— The Whales. 



Apr. 28. — English Song Birds. 



