PRESIDENTS ADDRESS. 24I 



ADDRESS TO THE MEMBERS OF THE TYNESIDE 

 NATURALISTS' EIELD CLTJB. 



BEAD BY THE PRESIDENT, W. MARK PTBUS, ESQ., ON THE FIFTY- 

 SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY, HELD IN THE COMMITTEE ROOM OP 

 THE LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, ON THE 1st day 

 OF MAY, 1903. 



Ladies and Gentlemen, — When it was suggested to me 

 that for a second year I should be honoured by presiding 

 over you I felt the many obligations I owed to your indul- 

 gence and support increased ; and though I greatly valued 

 the high distinction you proposed to confer upon me, in the 

 interests of the Club I hesitated to accept the office, as I have 

 always felt an annual change of Presidents has had a bene- 

 ficial effect in the promoting of your researches and in 

 adding interest and variety to your pursuits and proceedings. 

 I, however, conferred with some of you before returning an 

 answer to the complimentary letter of your Honorary 

 Secretaries, and as I found there was a feeling it was un- 

 desirable a new President should take office until there had 

 been an adjustment of your relationship with the Natural 

 History Society, then under discussion, I at once brushed 

 aside all other considerations and placed myself at your 

 service. 



My first duty is to preserve some record of our Field 

 Meetings : — 



Castle Eden Dene and Black Hall Rocks. 



From the records of the Club I find Castle Eden Dene has 

 been visited on at least eight occasions : — 



1 6th June, 1847. 



15th July, 1852. 



(no date) July, 1854. 



27th June, i860. 



15th June, 1870. 

 25th June, 1877. 

 24th June, 1889. 

 13th October, 1893. 



I believe there was a later meeting, but the record of it has 

 not yet been published, and I was unfortunately not present. 



