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NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY 



OF 



NORTHUMBERLAND, DURHAM, AND NEWCASTLE- 

 UPON-TYNE. 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE FOR THE YEAR 



1900-1901. 



The year of the Society closes with a membership of 225, 

 being a reduction of 13 on the previous year. During the 

 past year 12 members have died and 5 resigned, while 4 new 

 members whose names will be found below have been elected. 

 Our losses through death have been unusually severe, includ- 

 ing the President of the Society (Lord Armstrong), two Vice- 

 Presidents (Dr. Embleton and Mr. J. F. Spence), one member 

 of Committee (Mr. H. T. Archer), and the Curator to the 

 Society (Mr. Richard Howse, M.A.) ; and also several of the 

 older members of the Society. 



Lord Armstrong had been a member of the Society since 

 1846. He was a member of the Committee in the following 

 year, a Vice-President in 1861, and has been the President 

 continuously since 1893. He has always been a warm friend 

 and munificent contributor to the Society, and it is in a very 

 large measure due to his generosity that the building and 

 fittings of the Museum are in their present state of complete- 

 ness. He was the means of adding the Hutton collection of 

 minerals and the library of the late Mr. Joshua Alder, and 

 also made several other very valuable contributions to the 

 collections and library of the Society. 



Dr. Embleton had been a member of the Society since 

 1842 ; he early became a member of the Committee, and was 

 elected a Vice-President in 1870; he was a well known con- 

 tributor to the Transactions of the Society, and at his death 

 he left to the Society a legacy of ;^2 5. 



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