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The Second Pi eld Meeting was held at Castle Eden Dene, on 

 Monday, June 25th. The day was remai'kably fine, and a fair 

 number were present. The party breakfasted at the Inn at 

 Castle Eden, and then proceeded, by the kind permission of tho 

 Rev. J. Burden, previously obtained, from Hunter's Pool, through 

 the Dene, to the sea coast, returning by the same route. The 

 objects of interest observed were principally botanical. The Lily 

 of the Yallcy was seen in great abundance, the Fly Orchis was 

 also observed, the Butterfly Orchis, the Tway Blade, the Gera- 

 nium sayiguineum, and the Common Comfi'cy. Mr. Grace captured 

 a specimen of the Clouded Yellow Butterfly, Colias Edma, which 

 he afterwards presented to the Museum. At Ferry Hill on the 

 way home, during a short stay between trains, some of the mem- 

 bers gathered the Primula fariiiosa at Thiislington Gap, close to 

 the present Feny Hill Railway Station. 



The TxriED Field Meeting was held at Brampton, on Thurs- 

 day, July 19th, and was a very successful one. To suit the con- 

 venience of members two routes were arranged, a longer and a 

 shorter one, for an ''early" and a "later" party respectively. 

 The "e£irly" party, consisting of about twenty gentlemen, started 

 from Newcastle by the 6.25 a.m. train, and alighted and break- 

 fasted at Gilsland. Thence they visited the Spa "Well, near 

 which they found the Saxifraga azoidcs in great abundance and 

 beautiful flower; explored the Roman Camp at Bii'd Oswald, 

 and admired the splendid view, embracing Skiddaw, Saddleback, 

 and Helvellyn, on the one side, and Che^•iot and the Duinfiies- 

 shire Hills, on the other ; traversed the line of the Roman AVall 

 to Banks, in the fosse of which they found numerous specimens 

 of the Butterfly Orchis ; and, passing masses of the Erica cinerea, 

 richly in flower, on tlic north of tho road near Banks, finally met 

 the "later" party at Lanercost, at about one p.m. The "later" 

 party, consisting of about thirty persons, several of whom were 

 ladies, had left Newcastle by the 10.20 a.m. train, and liad walked 

 through the giounds of Naworth Castle, and wandered in its 

 beautiful woods, climV)ing to the pretty log-house built by the 

 Hon. George Howard, in memorj- of his marriage, luul admiring 



