412 president's address. 



this insect before, and unless I had time enough to be positively 

 certain I should have hesitated to announce it. Monday was 

 unusually hot, and the night very stormy, with nearly an inch 

 of rain. — C. H. Cadogan, Linden, near Morpeth, May 9, 1867. 



ADDEESS TO THE MEMBERS OF THE TYNESIDE 

 NATURALISTS' FIELD CLUB, 



READ BY THE PRESIDENT, THE REV. JOHN COLLINGWOOD BRUCE, LL.D., 

 F.S.A., AT THE TWENTY-FIRST ANNIVERSARY MEETING, HELD IN THE 

 MUSEUM OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, NEWCASTLE-UPON- 

 TYNE, ON THURSDAY, MAY 9th, 1S67. 



The First Field Meeting of the season is always a joyous event. 

 It is a manifestation of the fact that the long months of winter 

 are ended — that bright skies have replaced the darkness and the 

 storm — that the time of the singing of birds has come, and that 

 nature has assumed its wonted vitality. At the first gatherings 

 of the year the friendships of former occasions are renewed — 

 each well-remembered face beams with the reminiscence of past 

 enjoyments. 



The inaugural meeting of 1866 was a successful one. The 

 weather was most favourable, and the ground selected for our 

 visit presented scenes of great variety and great beauty. Ack- 

 lington, the river Coquet, and the castle, hermitage, and church 

 of "Warkworth formed the programme of the day. About forty 

 members and their friends (among whom was a most encouraging 

 sprinkling of ladies) joined the expedition. Acklington village 

 and church were visited under the guidance of the Eev. George 

 Thompson, the incumbent of the place, who kindly accompanied 

 us throughout the day and gave us the benefit of his local know- 

 ledge. Acklington dam and hatching ponds were carefully exa- 

 mined, and a wish was pretty generally expressed that means 

 more effectual than those which at present exist might be adopted 

 for allowing the salmo salar to ascend the river and itself deposit 

 its spawn in breeding grounds of its own selection. The slight 



