Natural History Transactions of Northumberland and Durham 1865-1867

Summary

Natural History Transactions of Northumberland and Durham: being papers read at the Meetings of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne and the Tyneside Naturalists’ Field Club, 1865-1867, Vol I.

This volume contains:

• Reports of Deep Sea Dredging on the Coasts of Northumberland and Durham, 1862-4, edited by George S. Brady (pp. 1 – 5)
• Report on the Mollusca by Joshua Alder (pp. 5 – 11)
• Report on the Crustacea by the Rev. Alfred Merle Norman (pp. 12 – 29)
• Report on the Palagic Entomostraca by George S. Brady (pp. 29 – 41)
• Report on the Pycnogonoidea by George Hodge (pp. 41 – 45)
• Report on the Echinodermata by George Hodge (pp. 42 – 45)
• Report on the Zoophytes by Joshua Alder (pp. 45 -50)
• Report on the Foraminifera by Henry B. Brady (pp. 51 – 58)
• On Cynanea imporcata, an undescribed Medusa taken off the Northumberland Coast by the Rev. Alfred Merle Norman (pp. 58 – 60)
• Descriptions of three new or imperfectly known Polyzoa found on the Coasts of Northumberland and Durham by Joshua Alder (pp. 60 – 64)
• On some Remains of Fish and Plants from the “Upper Limestone” of the Permian Series of Durham by James W. Kirkby (pp. 64 – 83)
• A Catalogue of the Recent Foraminifera of Northumberland and Durham by Henry B. Brady (pp. 83 – 107)
• Naturalists’ Field Clubs: Their Objects and Organization by George S. Brady (pp. 107 – 114)
• Meteorological Report for 1864 edited by George Clayton Atkinson (pp. 114 –  123)
• Entomological Notes for the Year 1864 by Thomas John Bold (pp. 123 – 127)
• List of a few Local Homoptera by Thomas John Bold (pp. 128 – 131)
• List of Coleopterous Insects added to the Fauna of Northumberland and Durham during the Year 1864 by Thomas John Bold (pp. 131 – 133)
• Miscellaneous Notices and Observations (pp. 134 – 138)
• Office bearers of the Ninteenth Anniversary Meeting of the Tyneside Naturalists’ Field Club (pp. 139 – 141)
• The Treasurer in Account with the Tyneside Naturalists’ Field Club (p. 142)
• On an Ancient British Burial at Ilderton, Northumberland, with Notes on the Skull, by the Rev. W. Greenwell and D. Embleton (pp. 143 – 148)
• On Human and other Remains found in a Cavern near the Ryhope Colliery by James W. Kirkby and George S. Brady (pp. 148 – 151)
• On the Opening and Examination of a Barrow of the British Period at Warkshaugh, North Tynedale by the Rev. George Rome Hall (pp. 151 – 167)
• The Sessions of Liberty at Tynedale, held at Wark, in the Thirteenth Century by Edward Charlton (pp. 168 – 173)
• Meteorological Report for 1865 edited by George Clayton Atkinson (pp. 173 – 178)
• Climatological Tables relative to Flowering of Plants &c. 1865 edited by George S. Brady (pp. 179 – 182)
• Entomological Notes for the Year 1865 by Thomas John Bold (pp. 182 – 184)
• On the Fossils of the Marl-slate and Lower Magnesian Limestone (Durham, No. II) by James W. Kirkby (pp. 184 – 200)
• On Casts of Palꜵzoic Corals found amongst the Refuse of Alkali-works by Henry B Brady (pp. 201 – 202)
• On the Occurrence of Bostrychia scorpioides on the Northumberland Coast by George S. Brady (pp. 203 – 204)
• On the Chemical Composition of various Beds of the Magnesian Limestone and Associated Permian  Rocks of Durham by E. J. J. Browell and James W. Kirkby (pp. 204 – 230)
• Miscellaneous Notices and Observations (pp. 231 – 234)
  
• Address to the Members of the Tyneside Naturalists’ Field Club by the Rev. Alfred Merle Norman, 19 April 1866 (pp. 235 – 263)
• Office Bearers (pp. 264 – 266)
• The Treasurer in Account with the Tyneside Naturalists’ Field Club (p. 267)
• Report of the Committee of the Natural History Society 26 April 1866 by R. S. Newall (pp. 268 – 270)
• Treasurer’s Report (p. 271)
• Officers of the Natural History Society 26 April 1866 (pp. 272 – 273)
• List of Donations to the Library and Museum of the Natural History Society from August 1864 to April 1866 (pp. 271 – 277)
• Amended Rules of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham and Newcastle upon Tyne (pp. 278 – 280)
• Ornithological Notes by John Hancock (pp. 281 – 284)
• Meteorological Report for 1866 edited by the Rev. R. F. Wheeler (pp. 284 –  309)
• List of a few Local Homoptera by Thomas John Bold (pp. 309 – 314)
• Entomological Notes for the Year 1866 by Thomas John Bold (pp. 314 – 318)
• List of Coleopterous Insect added to the Fauna of Northumberland and Durham during the Years 1865-6 by Thomas John Bold (pp. 318 – 324)
• Notice of the Life of the late Joshua Alder, Esq by D. Embleton (pp. 324 – 332)
• List of the Publications of Mr Alder (pp. 333 – 337)
• Note on the Excavating Sponges with Descriptions of four new Species by Albany Hancock (pp. 337 – 353)
• A Mongraph of the British Entomostraca belonging to the Families Bosminidæ, Macrothroicidæ, and Lynceidæ by the Rev. A. M. Norman and G. S. Brady (pp. 354 – 408)
• Miscellaneous Notices and Observations (pp. 408 – 412)
• Address to the Members of the Tyneside Naturalists’ Field Club, by the Rev. John Collingwood Bruce, 9 May 1867 (pp. 420)
• Office bearers (p. 421)
• New members (pp. 422 – 423)
• The Treasurer in Account with the Tyneside Naturalists’ Field Club (p. 424)
• List of members (pp. 425 – 429)
• Report of the Committee of the Natural History Society, 9 May 1867 by D. Embleton Esq (pp. 440 – 441)
• Ralph Brown, Esq. Treasurer in Account with the Natural History Society from 1 January 1866 to 31 March 1867 (p. 442)
• List of Donations to the Library and Museum of the Natural History Society from April 1866 to April 1867 (pp. 443 – 444)
• Officers of the Natural History Society 1867 (pp. 445 – 446)
• List of Members, 1867 (pp. 447 – 451)
• List of Associates (pp. 452 – 454)
• Proposed Memorial of the late Joshua Alder Esq (pp. 455 – 456)
• Illustrations to Vol I (p. 457)
• Index to Volume I (pp. 459 – 462)

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