116 president's addeess. 



The smaller party drove by Walwick to "Procolitia," tlie 

 next station westwards on the Great Wall at Tepper Moor, 

 seeing on the way a fine piece of the wall and the remains of 

 two turrets. The whole party reassembling walked down the 

 North Tyne through a wealth of wild-flowers, Golden-rod, Rag- 

 wort, rigwort, etc., to the Roman Bridge, where they listened 

 to a short account, given by the President, of the Great "Wall, 

 its military stations, its castles, turrets, and bridges. Point was 

 given to the sketch by the presence at this spot, of the best 

 revealed station, an excellent mile-castle, a portion of the wall 

 and the eastern abutment of the Bridge of " Cilurnum," perhaps 

 the finest piece of Roman masonry in the kingdom. 



All then dined together at the George Inn, when Mr. Thomp- . 

 son exhibited a Tree-Creeper's nest of six eggs, prolonged by a 

 mass of fibres and splints of decayed wood to the length of a 

 cigar-box, and the President reported that LysiniacMa vulgai-is 

 had been found by his friend, the Rev. J. E. Hull, in Pelaw 

 Wood, Durham, a new habitat. 



For an account of the Last Meeting I am indebted to Mr. 

 Thompson and Mr. Branford, as ill health forbade my presence. 

 It was at St. Mary's Island, on Friday, October 19th. They 

 say : — We had a pleasant day on the whole, though caught in 

 some heavy showers. There were eight of us. Two, who by 

 mistake went a week before, saw a stranded Porpoise. From 

 Hartley Station the party walked by the Avenue to Seaton 

 Delaval Hall, where a pleasant hour or so was spent, and then 

 on to Seaton Sluice, where the cutting in solid rock 52 feet deep, 

 30 broad, and 900 long, executed by Sir John Delaval, was 

 inspected. St. Mary's Island reached, tea was had and the 

 Island explored. Walking by the seaside Whitley was reached, 

 and by train, Newcastle, 6.45. At St. Mary's Island, Mr. Jesse 

 Ewen and his brother captured, on August 23rd, a seal alive. 

 After a few days' captivity it died and its body was sent to our 

 Natural History Museum at Newcastle, wliere it may be now 

 seen. The day before our visit a glass bottle was cast up, with 

 two rosettes of barnacles, Lepas fascicularis, attached to it. 



