440 REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE 



NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY : 



PRESENTED AT THE 



ANNIVERSARY MEETING, MAY 9th, 18G7, 



D. EMBLETON, ESQ., M.D., IN THE CHAIR. 



Tour Committee have to report that the general operations of 

 the Society have heen carried on with the same amount of success 

 as that by which they have been attended for some years past, 

 and that the lack of incident during the period to which it is their 

 duty to refer, renders any lengthy commentary unnecessary. 



The scientific meetings of the Society, resumed in connection 

 with the Tyneslde Naturalists' Eield Club, have been a satis- 

 factory addition to the year's programme, and the popular Win- 

 ter Evening Meetings have as usual years been amongst the 

 pleasantest reunions of the season. 



The number of members has somewhat diminished since the 

 last Anniversary, those removed from the list, by death and other 

 causes, being somewhat in excess of the number of new elections. 



The Society has to deplore the loss during the past few months 

 of two of its most distinguished members, Joshua Alder and Pri- 

 deaux J. Selby, both of them associated with the Society ever 

 since its foundation, and at the last, both of them Vice-Presidents. 

 As an outline of the life and scientific labours of Mr. Alder has 

 already been sketched for the Transactions by loving and appre- 

 ciative hands, your Committee need only express their deep sense 

 of the loss incurred by his removal. Up to the last his thought- 

 ful care over the interests of the Society was daily manifested. 



Mr. Selby's connection with the Society had been lessened by 



