Report of Meetings. By the President 485 



tlie officials of the various Institutions, who had so kindly received 

 us, and facilitated our progress during the day. 



The President being obliged to leave early, the Chair was 

 taten by Dr F. Douglas, and Mr Dixon read his paper on a 

 British Urn found near Screnwood, Northumberland. 



Then part of the company adjourned to the Library of the 

 Literary and Philosophical Society, the oldest in the city, where 

 they viewed the Lecture and Eeading Booms, and where Mr 

 Lyall gave explanations, and exhibited some of the rarest books. 



In the evening, a few members attended by invitation a 

 meeting of the Newcastle Antiquarian Society, when Dr Bruce 

 read an interesting Paper on the Koman Station at South 

 Shields, for which Mr W. T. Hindmarsh thanked him on behalf 

 of our Club, and Dr Bruce genially replied, remarking he should 

 be always glad to welcome our Members among them. 



The following is a List of the more valuable contents of the 

 Natural History Museum. — 



1. John Hancock's Collections : British Birds, Eggs, and Skeletons. 



2. Albany Hancock's Collection of Ascidise and Clionae. His drawings of 



Nudibranchs are also here. 



3. Alder's Collection of Zoophytes, British Shells, Books and Drawings. 



4. Atthey Collection of Coal Measure Fishes and Amphibians. 



5. Loftns Collection of Fossils and Shells. 



6. Winch Collection of Plants. 



7. Eobertson Collection of Plants, including Pallas Collection of Russian 



Plants. 



8. Tankerville Collection of Sponges and Corals. 



9. Abbs Collection of Coal Plants, etc, 



10. Hutton Collection of Coal Plants, containing many of Lindley and 



Button's Types in " Fossil Flora of Great Britain." 



11. Kirkby Collection of Fossils, and Carboniferous Fossils from Fife. 



12. Pryor Collection of Upper and Lower Greensand Fossils. 



13. Hutton Collection of Minerals. 



14. Cookson ,, ,, 



15. Charlton ,, ,, 



16. Trevelyan Collection of Carboniferous Fossils and Coal Plants (local). 



17. Russian Collection of Minerals from Siberia. 



18. Bold Collection of Insects: Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, Hemiptera, 



and Lepidoptera. 



19. Wasserman Collection of Lepidoptera. 



20. Bewick Collection of Drawings and first impressions of Prints. 

 General Collection : Mammalia (small) ; Fishes (chiefly local) ; Foreign 



Birds (not arranged) j Fossils from all formations. 



