NATURAL HISTORY TRA.NSACTIONS 



OF 



Is^ORTHTIMBERLAND, DURHAM, AND NEWCASTLE- 



TJPON-TYNE. 



ADDEESS TO THE MEMBERS OE THE TYNESIDE 

 NATURALISTS' EIELD CLUB, 



READ BY THE PRESIDENT, GEORGE HARE PHILIPSON, ESQ., M.A., M.D., 

 F.R.C.P., AT THE THIRTY-FIRST ANNIVERSARY MEETING, HELD IN 

 THE MUSEUM OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, NEWCASTLE- 

 UPON-TYNE, ON THURSDAY, APRIL 19th, 1877. 



Ladies and Gentlemen, — Eor the distinction whicli you were 

 pleased to endow me with, at the last Anniversary, I am 

 prompted to offer to you an expression of my appreciation for 

 your consideration, and in acknowledgment of your remem- 

 brance, to assure you of my determination and my aim to per- 

 form the duties and expectations of the position. By the 

 sagacity and forethought with which the rules of the Tyneside 

 Naturalists' Field Club have been framed, it is indicated that 

 the President, at the termination of his year of office, shall give 

 an address or written summary, recounting its proceedings at 

 the Eield and other Meetings, and referring to such other sub- 

 jects and events in Natural History as he may deem conducive 

 to the welfare of the Club and the furtherance of its objects. 

 Of the many pleasures of the office of President, assuredly this 

 is not the least, for in referring to the proceedings and events of 

 the past, the beauties and the interest of the localities visited, 

 the enjoyable occurrences of the Social Meeting and of friend- 

 ships formed, and the delight or admiration at the acquirement 



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