The Transactions of the Tyneside Naturalists’ Field Club 1854 -1858

Summary

Transactions of the Tyneside Naturalists’ Field Club 1854 – 1858

This volume includes:

• The President’s Address, read at the Ninth Anniversary Meeting, May 23, 1855 by The President, Thomas Sopwith, Esq., F.R.S., F.G.S., (pp. 1 – 44)
• Officers-Bearers (p.45)
• Description of Lathrobium carinatum, an apparently undescribed British Coleopterous Insect, by Thomas John Bold (pp. 46 – 47)
• The President’s Address, read at the Tenth Anniversary Meeting, May 15, 1856 by Rowland Burdon, Esq., President (pp. 48 – 56 )
• Officers-Bearers (p. 57)
• On the Effects of the Severe Winter of 1854 – 1855 upon Evergreen Vegetation in the North of England, by Ralph Carr, Esq. (pp. 58 – 63)
• Abstract of a Paper entitled “Observations on the Growth in Diameter of Dicotyledonous (Exogenous) Stems” by D. Oliver, Jun. (pp. 64 – 68)
• Memoranda of Plants, collected by the Coquet, in 1855, by D. Oliver, Jun. (pp. 68 – 72)
• On the Distribution of Certain Species of Fresh-water Fish; and on the Modes of Fecundating the Ova of the Salmonidae, by John Hogg, Esq., M.A., F.R.S., (pp 73 – 87)
• Entomological Notes, for 1855, with a Record of Coleopterous Insects new to the Fauna, and additional localities for some of the rarer Species of our Catalogue, by Thomas John Bold (pp. 88 – 93)
• Introductory Observations. A Catalogue of the Zoophytes of Northumberland and Durham, by Joshua Alder, Esq. (pp. 93 – 162) 
• The President’s Address, read at the Eleventh Anniversary Meeting, April 4, 1857 by John Hogg, Esq., M.A., F.R.S., F.L.S., F.C.P.S., President (pp. 163 – 188)
• A Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Northumberland and Durham, by George Wailes, Member of the Entomological Societies of London, France and Stettin (pp. 189 – 235)
• Notes on the Permian System of Northumberland and Durham; being a Supplement to the Catalogue of Fossils of the Permian Systems of these Counties, by Richard Howse (pp. 235 – 285)
• On Some Permian Fossils from Durham by Mr. J. W. Kirkby (pp. 286 – 294)
• Notice of Insects added to our Fauna, during the year 1856, by Thomas John Bold (pp. 295 – 297)
• Monthly Register of the Rain-Fall for 1856 (p. 298)
• Monthly Register of the Rain-Fall for 1857 (p. 299)
• Notes of the Rain-Fall for 1856, 1857 (p. 300)
• Office-Bearers (p. 301)
• List of Members, Corrected to August  31st, 1858 (pp. 302 – 308)
• Index to Vol. III (pp. 309 – 310)

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