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exotic plants, and everything drew forth their lively interest and 

 admiration. Unfortunately rain began to fall, and a bivouac on 

 the sea banks at Cresswell, which had been projected, had to be 

 given up, but after the arrival of the party at Kewbiggin the 

 weather cleared again, and the rest of the excursion was again 

 attended with pleasure. At Xewbiggin some excavations, for 

 sewerage purposes, had revealed a bed of peat, seven feet below 

 the superincumbent sand, with trunks of trees, hazels, and nuts 

 embedded in it. The sea banks repaid a stroll upon them, and 

 the Church was visited. Dinner was served at Sumner's Hotel, 

 and a paper was read afterwards by our Secretaiy, Mr. Thompson, 

 in the absence of his colleague, Mr. Howse, the author, " On the 

 Occurrence of the Ajiodonta Julcesii in the Lower Carboniferous 

 Rocks of North Northumberland." The paper, wliich is a very 

 valuable and interesting one, has been printed in the Part of our 

 Transactions at present in coui'se of issue to the members. 



The Fifth (Ordinary) Field Meeting of the Club Avas held 

 at Bishop Auckland, on Tuesday, September 11th. Special in- 

 terest was attached to this Meeting, from the circumstance that 

 the Bishop Auckland Naturalists' Field Club, a younger Society 

 than our own, but one manifesting a good deal of enthusiasm and 

 vigour, had resolved to welcome us in force on our Wsit to their 

 head-quarters. About seventy of our members alighted from the 

 train at Brancepeth Station a little after ten a.m., and were met 

 by over thirty members of the Bishop Auckland Society, headed 

 by their President, long a fellow member of our own, Mr. Joseph 

 Duff. After greetings and introductions had been reciprocally ex- 

 changed, the whole party proceeded to view the very interesting 

 Church at Brancepeth. Tlie fine arcliitccture, mostly of the per- 

 pendicular period, the handsome screen, tlie elaborate tombs of 

 the Nevilles, the hagioscopes, Sanctus bell, and other special fea- 

 tures, were duly pointed out and discussed. From the Church 

 the members went to the Castle, which, by the kind permission 

 of Lord Boync, was examined in every part, and afforded much 

 gratification to the party. Thence a pleasant walk through the 

 Park to the lane leading to Pago Bank, a ludt near tlie spot 



