A?i7iiijersary Address. S55 



to strengtlien both bodies and promote friendly cooperation 

 in carrying on their common objects." 



Our meeting at Alnwick was signalized by the oppor- 

 tunity there afforded to us, of social intercourse with the 

 Tyneside Natural History Club — a club having objects simi- 

 lar to ours, and which I believe was originated by some of 

 our own members resident in Northumberland. 



It afforded I am sure, great pleasure to members of both 

 clubs to have this opportunity. New acquaintances were 

 thereby formed, between persons of congenial tastes and 

 similar pursuits. Useful information and good hints were 

 interchanged, and above all, encouragement was given in the 

 pursuit of our common objects by the mere presence of so 

 large a staff of persons devoted to them. I trust that the 

 precedent set at Alnwick will be followed, so that one of our 

 summer meetings may always be held at some place where 

 another club like our own, may unite with us for the day's 

 proceedings. 



In the minutes of this meeting, notice is most properly 

 taken of the liberality and courtesy of the Duke of North- 

 umberland, in not only throwing open to the members of both 

 clubs, his splendid old castle, and its park and gardens, but 

 in himself condescending to meet the members in his Egyp- 

 tian Museum, and there give an address to a numerous 

 audience on the objects there preserved, most of which had 

 been collected by him when in Egypt. On the conclusion of 

 this address, I took it upon me, as president of the senior 

 club, — at the suggestion of some of our members, — to return 

 thanks to his Grace, and to inform him that our club, as 

 the only acknowledgment which it had power to offer for 

 his kindness and patronage, had that morning suspended its 

 rules in regard to the admission of new members, in order 

 that we might have the privilege and honour of electing him 

 a member of the club. His Grace was pleased to say that he 

 was much gratified by the compliment we had paid to him, 

 and was very happy to have become a member of the Ber- 

 wickshire Naturalists' Club. 



