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of your Museum, but of the locality where it is said to be obtained, I cannot find any 

 record. 



" Other points of interest relating to the economy of these animals, many of them 

 bearing on Mr. Higginbottom's paper, T hope to lay before you at some future period, 

 when I have made further experiments." 



Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club. 



Anniversary Meeting, March 15, 1854. — Sir W. C. Trevelyan, Bart., in the 

 chair. 



The President, on retiring from office, read to the Members a highly interesting 

 Address, recommending to them the study of the fossil Infusoria, and the microscopical 

 examination of coal. He exhibited a fossil pearl, of the size of a small marble, and 

 which in appearance it much resembled. 



Some additions to the insect Fauna were communicated by Mr. T. J. Bold, who 

 also read a paper, intituled " Notes on the Effects of the extreme wet Winter of 

 1852-3 on Insects." From this paper we learn that the immense swarms of" cholera- 

 flies" which were seen in Newcastle and the vicinity last autumn, were winged Aphi- 

 des : the greater number consisting of Aphis Rumicis, with a sprinkling (perhaps one 

 in a thousand) of A. Brassies. The former had previously been noticed to infest 

 fields of beans, and the latter, turnips. 



Mr. D. Oliver, jun., communicated some interesting botanical notes, and exhi- 

 bited some fine specimens of rare plants collected at the field meeting held in Teesdale 

 in July last. 



Mr. Storey, the Secretary, announced that he hoped to have the first part of his 

 ' Flora of Northumberland and Durham ' ready for distribution to the Members before 

 the next Anniversary. 



Mr. Storey also called the attention of the meeting to an isolated boulder stone, 

 bearing strong marks of glacial or diluvial action, which he had observed lying par- 

 tially exposed in a field on the Elswick estate, between South Parade and Scotswood 

 Road. 



The places selected for the field meetings of the ensuing season are Dilston, 

 Brinkburn Priory, Lindisfarne, Castle Eden, Northumberland Lakes, and Alnwick. 

 It is also intended to hold a subterranean meeting in one of the coal-mines of the 

 Tyne or Wear. 



The following gentlemen were elected Officers for the year ending February, 1855. 

 President : — Thos. Sopwith, F.R.S. Vice-Presidents : — Sir W. C. Trevelyan, Bart., 

 Wm. Kell, Dr. Embleton, Joshua Alder, Jos. Fryer, and Ralph Carr. Treasurer : — 

 Thos. Burnett. Secretaries: — John Storey, F.B.S.E., and Edward Mather. Com- 

 mittee: — Rev. G. C. Abbs, Albany Hancock, John Thompson, T. J. Bold, R. Y. 

 Green, Rev. Wm. Greenwell, Richard Howse, Joseph Blacklock, John Storey, jun., 

 Wm. Sidney Gibson, F. J. Peck, and D. W. Oliver, jun. The under-mentioned 

 gentlemen were elected Members of the Club: — Messrs. R. W. Bleasby, C. Crighton, 

 Wm. Greeujun., D. H. Goddard, and Cuthbert E. Ellison, Esq.— T. J. B. 



