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These, on being put into water, revived, and their movements 

 afforded a sight few had seen before. Mr. Cobb has preserved 

 them. In all there are over a hundred, the largest being about 

 an inch long. Mr. Thompson exhibited five eggs taken out of a 

 nest of the Black-headed Gull, Larus ridibundus, near Eskdale, 

 last May. The usual number is three, but Mr. Thompson has 

 seen four, though never five before. Large flocks of Starlings 

 were seen on the way to Whitley. A berried branch of Buck- 

 thorn, Rhamniis catharticus, from Westmorland, excited some 

 curiosity. 



Two joint Evening Meetings of the members of the ^Natural 

 History Society and the Tyneside !N'aturalists' Field Club were 

 held in the Museum of the Natural History Society, IS'ewcastle- 

 on-Tyne ; the first, on January 31st, 1895, to hear a paper by 

 the President of the Tyneside jS'aturalists' Field Club, the Eev. 

 A. Watts, F.G.S., on ''The Life-history of Coal;" and the 

 second on February 22nd, 1895, to hear one by Prof. Gr. S. 

 Brady, F.E.S., on " Entomostraca collected in the Solway Dis- 

 trict, and at Seaton Sluice, during the summer of 1894." At 

 the last meeting several Queen White-Ants and other insects 

 from South Africa, presented by Mrs. Grethin, were exhibited, 

 and a fine specimen of the newly-discovered South Australian 

 Marsupial-Mole, recently presented to the Museum by Mr. F. 

 Sutherland. It is to be hoped that these AVinter Evening Meet- 

 ings will be continued. 



A melancholy duty now falls to me. Whilst our members' list 

 shows new names, alas ! some old ones, venerated ones, are year 

 by year disappearing. 1894 has borne away two, in the Eev. John 

 Cundill, D.D., who died September 14th, at the ripe age of 84, 

 and in Charles Murray Adamson, Clerk of the Commissioners of 

 Taxes in Newcastle, who died November 19th. Both names are 

 found on our first list of members, that for 1847. Canon Cundill 

 was an authority highly respected on Ecclesiastical Law, but 

 does not seem to have been a very active Naturalist. He was 

 made Honorary Canon of Durham, and only a few years ago 



