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even higher sums have been paid for the series. We do not 

 of course estimate the value of scientific work by the amount 

 for which in such circumstances it will sell, but the price may 

 be taken as some indication of the esteem in which your 

 Proceedings are held by the public. 



But there are other and surer grounds in which an opinion 

 may be formed. No one who is competent to judge can turn 

 to the volumes themselves which the Club has issued without 

 at once seeing what thorough work has been done — there 

 are papers by Mr Tate of Alnwick, Mr Selby of Twizell, Mr 

 Embleton, Mr Greenwell, and various other members, which 

 are of the highest interest and value, and among these a 

 prominent place is due to the contributions of your able and 

 zealous secretary, Mr Hardy. 



One remarkable circumstance is that some of these papers 

 have subsequently developed into books which in certain 

 cases have taken a permanent place in scientific literature. 

 The " History of the Battle of Flodden," by the Rev Mr 

 Jones, and the " History of Alnwick," by Mr Tate, originated 

 in communications first made to this Club. 



So also it was with Dr. W. Baird's work on the Entomos- 

 traca. His first paper appeared in your Proceedings in 1835 

 containing 23 Berwickshire species previously known to 

 science, and 15 new species which he had discovered within 

 our bounds. It was the commencement of those investiga- 

 tions which issued in the important " History of British En- 

 tomostraca " published by the Ray Society. 



The works of Dr. Johnston were still more remarkable. 

 He had, among his other researches examined the Zoophytes 

 of our coast, and in your Proceedings for 1836 he gave a list 

 of the Berwickshire species. Previously, in the " Transac- 

 tion of the Natural History Society of Newcastle " (ii. p. 

 240,) he had drawn up " A Descriptive Catalogue of Zoo- 

 phytes found on the coast of North Durham." In 1838, 

 these led to the publication of his well-known work on 

 " British Zoophytes," a second enlarged edition of which ap- 

 peared in 1842, — a work of which it is not too much to say 

 that its appearance formed an era in the department of 



