272 presidknt's .ajddress. 



Tyneside Club in the chair. Five new members were proposed 

 and elected. 



A paper was read by the President from Mr. Thomas Atthey, 

 entitled "Notes on the Vertebral Column and other Remains of 

 Loxomma Allmanni, Huxley," and a specimen of the fossil was 

 exhibited. This was followed by a Memoir of tlie Life of W. C. 

 Hewitson, Esq., F.G.S., by the President. After which "A 

 Memoir of Thomas Belt, Esq., F.G.S.," by Mr. Joseph TV'right, 

 Keeper of the Museum, was read by him. 



There was again a considerable attendance of members. Cor- 

 dial votes of thanks were proposed and seconded to the authors of 

 the above papers, and the meeting closed with the usual social 

 tea and coffee and interesting conversation. 



It is with deep regret that I find it incumbent on me to record 

 the decease of four important, well-known, and highly-valued 

 members of the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club, namely, Wm. 

 Chapman Hewitson, Thomas Bolt, Thomas Sopwith, and, lastly. 

 Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan, Baronet. 



Notices of the lives of Mr. Hewitson and Mr. Belt have al- 

 ready been communicated to you, and one of the life of Mr. Sop- 

 with is, I understand, to be published ere long in London. 



The Scientific Journals have devoted articles to each of these 

 four worthies, but I should feel that I were neglectful alike of 

 my duty and my friendship if I omitted on this occasion some, 

 however brief, account of the career of our townsman, Mr. Sop- 

 with, who was a member of our Club since its beginning, and 

 who, some years ago, occupied in a distinguished manner this 

 presidential chair. 



Thomas Sopwith, M.A., F.K.S., M. Inst. C.E., was born in 

 Pilgrim Street, opposite the west gates of All Saints' Church, on 

 the 3rd of January, 1 803, and died at his residence in Victoria 

 Street, Westminster, on tlic 16th of Januaiy, 1879, ha\'ing en- 

 tered on hU seventy-seventh year. He was one of many North- 

 umbrians who have educated themselves, and thus risen to 

 eminence; ho began his self-education when a chihl. On entering 

 school, at Mr. Miller's, St. Nicholas' Cliurchyard, he W(\s set, as 

 n matter of course, by the master to make ntrokes and pothooks 



