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subjects. Miss Minton-Senhouse requested to be allowed to 

 make a selection of scientific instruments which she required 

 and a work on botany for the amount of her prize. 



During the year the Society has been, on the application of 

 the Secretaries, recognised as one of the Corresponding 

 Societies of the British Association, and Prof. M. C. Potter 

 was appointed as delegate of the Society to the Bradford 

 Meeting. 



Evening Meetings. — The usual number of Joint Evening 

 Meetings with the Tyneside Naturahsts' Field Club were held 

 during the winter months, when a few members of this Society 

 and of the Field Club were joined by most of the working 

 Associates. 



The First Meeting was held on Tuesday evening, October 

 31st, 1899, when about 18 members were present. The Rev. 

 Arthur Watts, F.G.S., gave a short inaugural address suggest- 

 ing that the field work done by the members during the 

 summer months should be revised and matured in notes that 

 could be read at the winter evening meetings. A further 

 address was given on the recent changes in our river systems 

 since the close of the Glacial Period. The usual discussion 

 followed, and the meeting was concluded with the thanks of 

 those present to the lecturer and chairman. 



The Second Meeting took place on Tuesday evening, Nov. 

 28th, when about 20 members and friends assembled to hear 

 two papers by Prof. G. S. Brady, one " On Ilyopsilus and 

 other minute Crustacea taken at Alnmouth in 1899," and the 

 other on " An Afternoon's Dredging off Cullercoats " in the 

 same year. Mr. Turnbull exhibited an example of two nests 

 of the Dipper placed close together and interwoven, on the 

 branch of a tree overhanging water. Mr. R. W. Ellison 

 exhibited a series of photos of the nests and eggs of Terns 

 and other birds. 



At the Third Meeting, January 30th, 1900, owing to the 

 very stormy weather, only a very small number of members 

 were present. The business of the meeting was chiefly the 



