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PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 
GLOUCESTERSHIRE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
The annual meeting was held Jan. 2, 1839, at the Montpellier Spa, Chelteft* 
ham, Henry Norwood Trye, Esq., in the chair.—-Mr. Trye opened the business 
of the meeting by calling upon the Secretary to rd'ad the report of the committee 
of management for the past year. This document furnished a brief outline of the 
various works performed in the gardens previous and subsequent to their opening* 
and discussed other matters connected therewith; interesting possibly to the 
Society itself, but scarcely so to the public at large. The most important of these 
was the recommendation that shareholders should be allowed the privilege of free 
admission into the gardens, according to the number of shares respectively held by 
each. That the owner of five shares, for example, should have a single admission ; 
and that the owner of twenty shares should enjoy the privilege of introducing his 
family on all ordinary occasions into the gardens; while to subscribers for fifty 
shares and upwards the right of admission it was proposed should also extend to 
the extraordinary occasions, such as the floral exhibitions, &c. The report like¬ 
wise recommended that those shareholders who held a less number of shares than 
five, should, in the event of their becoming subscribers, be allowed a deduction 
from the fixed amount of subscription to the gardens at the rate of five per cent. 
After some explanatory discussions had been gone through, the report containing 
these important recommendations was adopted by the meeting, and ordered to be 
acted upon at once. Votes of thanks to the committee of management and to 
the donors of zoological specimens were then passed nem. con., and the new 
committee of management having been elected, the meeting was dissolved. 
NATURAL-HISTORY SOCIETY OF NORTHUMBERLAND, DURHAM, 
AND NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE. 
From the 'Berwick Advertiser we learn that this Society held its third general 
meeting Dec. 17, John Adamson, Esq., in the chair.—Mr. Hutton read a paper 
by Mr. David Milne, Advocate, Hon. Memb. of the Society. A part of this 
communication was brought before the Geological Section of the British Associa- 
tion at the recent meeting. It was illustrated by a map, showing the outcrop of 
most of the principal Limestones and Coal-seams, together with the dykes and 
slips which occur in the district; also by various sections, showing the relative 
positions of the different strata. It would be impossible in our limited space to 
give an analysis of this interesting paper; but we may notice that it clearly 
proved the Coal of Berwick and North Durham to be in a position far below and 
consequently older than the Newcastle strata; also that the red rocks of the 
North of Northumberland and the Tweed are very ancient members of the Car- 
