REPORT OE THE COUNCIL g 



The Society has been represented by delegates at several 

 important gatherings of scientific men; for example, at the 

 Darwin Commemoration at Cambridge, the Entomological 

 Congress at Brussels, the Geological and Zoological Con- 

 gresses at Stockholm and Gratz respectively, and at the 

 meetings of the British Association and Museums Association. 

 An address was presented by the Society's delegate at the 

 Darwin Commemoration. 



Last year the loss by death of three of the oldest of the 

 vice-presidents had to be recorded, and during the year under 

 review another vice-president, who was long associated with 

 them, has been lost in Mr. D. O. Drewett. Mr. Drewett was 

 almost the oldest member of the Society. He was formerly 

 an active member of the committee, and took great interest in 

 the work of the brothers Hancock and the other distinguished 

 local naturalists of the 'sixties and 'seventies. The late Isaac 

 Clark, of Blaydon, who has also died during the year, was a 

 very old member of the Field Club. He was well known to 

 an earlier generation, and to a few of the present members, as 

 a keen ornithologist and egg-collector ; no one had a better 

 knowledge of the nesting places and habits of local birds. 



The Council wish to express their thanks to the donors of 

 the museum specimens of which a list appears in a later 

 portion of the report; to Messrs. J. L. Gracie and J. G. Bell 

 for their contributions towards eliminating last year's deficit ; 

 to Mr. J. Alaric Richardson for the fine ash used in making 

 the paths ; and to Messrs.' Ernest Scott and Wilfred Hall for 

 the time and trouble they expended in examining and report- 

 ing on the heating and lighting systems in the Museum. 

 The Council also acknowledge their appreciation of the 

 excellent work done by the curator, Mr. Gill, his assistant 

 Mr. Fletcher, and staff, during the year under review. 



