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of Mr. Matthew Eichley's history of their town, a handsome 

 quarto replete with interesting matter. Mr. Eichley was pre- 

 sent with us. The presentation was made by their President, 

 Mr. Joseph Duff, who had occupied the vice chair at dinner. I 

 need not say that I felt sure I should be acting in accordance 

 with your heartiest wishes in most cordially accepting the vo- 

 lume in your name, and in expressing the pleasure with which 

 the Tyneside ISTaturalists' Field Club would hear from year to 

 year of the continued prosperity and success of the Bishop Auck- 

 land Club. Before we finally broke up, a large number of the 

 members visited Mr. Duff's house and inspected, as fully as time 

 would allow, the splendid collection of fossils, mostly fi'om the 

 Coal Measures of the district, which, in the course of a number 

 of years, Mr. Duff has, with remarkable assiduity and devotion, 

 gathered and arranged. 



The Sixth, and Last (Oedustaey) Meeting, was held at Mars- 

 den, on Monday, October 15th. Between thirty and forty mem- 

 bers were present. A few of the party proceeded via Cleadon 

 Lane Station, and visited the N^ew Colliery at the Lizards, and 

 Byers' Quarry. The majority proceeded via South Shields, 

 where they inspected the objects in the Museum of the Free 

 Library, and the Site of the Eoman Station at the Lawe. Thence 

 they walked by the coast to Marsden, where ample justice was 

 done to a bounteous tea, provided by Mr. and Mrs. Hawkes at 

 the Grotto. In the absence of the President, our late venerable 

 Vice President the Bev. G. C. Abbes ably filled the chair, and 

 received a cordial vote of thanks from the Meeting, few thinking 

 it would be the last time they would meet him there, or in his 

 well loved beautiful grounds so often visited on the way thither. 



I regret very much to say that, during the past year, not a 

 single Evening Meeting has been held. During the preceding 

 year the comparatively large number of four Evening Meetings 

 were held. I hardly know whether it is allowable to suppose 

 that the energies and accumulating materials of our members 

 and associates were thus somewhat severely taxed, and that the 

 past year was needed for recuperation. But, seriously, I tliink 



