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Transactions be a worthy continuation of the old " Tyneside 

 Pield Club Transactions." 



IN'o prominent city in the land, I suppose, could boast such a 

 galaxy of naturalists, scientists, and geologists as were gathered 

 in and round Newcastle when the Club was founded. Joshua 

 Alder, T. Sopwith, Wm. Hutton, H. L. Pattinson, brothers Han- 

 cock (Albany and John), T. J. Bold, Gr. "VVailes, and many others. 

 It cannot be that they have left no successors. 



Let me remind you of a few of the illustrious names which 

 have graced the President's chair. Our first President and 

 Founder was the accomplished Kalph Carr-Ellison, whom many 

 of us remember, the friend of my boyhood, and who, being my 

 father's nearest neighbour, gave me my earliest lessons in field 

 natural history. Among the long list of his successors are the 

 names of the well-remembered J. F. Bigge, The Yicar of Stam- 

 fordham, Joshua Alder, our still surviving friend Dr. Denis 

 Embleton, T. Sopwith, G. Wailes, Sir W. C. Trevelyan, Wm. 

 Greenwell, Dr. Charlton, Dr. Bruce, to whom the Eoman Wall 

 owes half its fame, Dr. Merle Norman, H. B. Brady, alas ! pre- 

 maturely removed from our midst, but whose brother G. S. 

 Brady, thrice our President, we rejoice to see still in our midst. 

 Dr. Philipson, E. J. J. Browell, Rev. G. E. Hall the Antiquarian 

 of North Tyne, Rev. J. E. Leefe, a botanist unrivalled in his 

 knowledge of the difficult family of the Salices, and many others 

 make up the catalogue of the successive occupants of this chair, 

 and give lustre to our records. 



Among the papers which have enriched our Proceedings, none 

 surpass in value the descriptive catalogues of our local Eauna 

 and Flora. Notably the Birds, by John Hancock ; the Mam- 

 malia, by Mennell and Perkins ; the Fishes, by R. Howse ; the 

 Insects, by Hardy and Bold ; Lepidoptera, by Wailes ; the 

 Mollusca, by Joshua Alder; Flora, by Tate and Baker; the 

 Carboniferous Flora, and the Permian Fossils, by Richd. Howse ; 

 the Marine Algse, by G. S. Brady; the Zoophytes, by Joshua 

 Alder; Foraminifera, by H. B. Brady; Echinodermata, by Geo. 

 Hodge. Of other papers I would draw attention to the invalu- 

 able contributions of Albany Hancock and Dr. Embleton, and 



