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the Club on some points suggested by this paper, and after- 

 wards authenticated the whole of the articles, as being such 

 as he was familiar with during his researches in the York- 

 shire wolds and the chalk districts ; observing that some of 

 the types were rare, and the ornaments remarkable for their 

 extreme rudeness. Mr Middlemas read a paper from Mr 

 Dickson of Alnwick, correcting some mis-statements about 

 Bamburgh, which he shewed, by reference to original docu- 

 ments, were far from authentic. The President then read an 

 article from Mr R. Carr-Ellison, on " Certain secreted stores, 

 and certain exuded provisions of moisture, whereby young 

 Gallinaceous Birds are enabled to sustain life in dry seasons." 

 Several minor communications were made, which did not 

 reach the general audience. Among these, the President 

 mentioned a letter from the Rev. W. Procter, of Doddington, 

 enclosing one which he had received from the Rev. Adam 

 Sedgwick, the venerable Woodwardian Professor and veteran 

 geologist, of Cambridge, in which he writes : — " I have no 

 fear that any of the discoveries of geology can ever touch the 

 great saving truths revealed to us in the Word of God. . . 

 No discovery of philosophic truth can ever shake any one of 

 these elements of Divine truth; but they may shake and 

 destroy our narrow interpretation of certain portions of the 

 Bible." The letters had been mislaid, so could not be read; 

 but their purport was given to the meeting. Mr Cadogan 

 mentioned that in driving from Wooler to the meeting, he 

 had observed two Ash-coloured Shrikes on the wall of Fow- 

 berry park, one having a captured insect in its mouth, which 

 shewed that they were breeding. Mr Wightman produced 

 from a field near Wooler, a silver penny of Edward I., coined 

 at Dublin : the inscription being, edw. r. angl. dns. hyb. ; 

 and on the reverse, civitas Dublin ie. The President had 

 brought two packets of silver coins, from the ruins of an old 

 pele tower at North Sunderland, found chiefly in 1832—33, 

 when the tower was pulled down. Several of the members 

 having to depart for the trains north and south at Belford, 



