NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY 



OF 



NORTHUMBERLAND, DURHAM, AND NEWCASTLE- 

 UPON-TYNE. 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE FOR 1901-1902. 



The Committee are glad to report a slight increase in the 

 number of members of the Society, the year having closed 

 with a membership of 231 as against 225 for last year. Two 

 members. Alderman T. B. Winter and Mr. Thos. Deacon, 

 have died, and seven members have resigned, while fifteen 

 new members have been elected. 



With regard to the Treasurer's account, the Committee 

 wish to state that the balance in hand (;3^i6o) is more ap- 

 parent than real, as practically the whole of this sum is 

 bespoken for publication of Transactions, and for cases and 

 other work now in progress in the Museum building. 



Your Committee wish to express their deep regret that the 

 fact of the continued ill-health of the Treasurer, Mr. Thomas 

 Thompson, has rendered it necessary for him to place his 

 resignation in the hands of the Society. Mr. Thompson has 

 been Hon. Treasurer to the Society for ten years, and the 

 Committee feel that the Society are under a deep debt of 

 gratitude to him for the very cautious and prudent method 

 in which the finances of the Society have been administered 

 during that period. 



The Committee have during the past year received six 

 months' notice from the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club of 

 their wish to terminate the arrangement with the Society 

 which was made in the year 1864. Your Committee much 

 regret that the Field Club have found it necessary to sever 

 the close connection which has existed for so long between 

 the two Societies. The parts of the Joint Transactions of 



