Transactions of the Tyneside Naturalist’ Field Club 1858 – 1860

Summary

Transactions of the Tyneside Naturalists’ Field Club 1858 – 1860

This volume includes:

• President’s Address, October 1858 (pp. 1 – 13)
• Office Bearers, for the year ending February 1858 (pp. 14 – 25)
• Description of Two Rare Crustaceans From the Coast of Durham, one of them a New Species by C. Spence Bate, Esq. (pp. 15 – 16)
• Remarks on certain Vermiform Fossils found in the Mountain Limestone Districts of the North of England by Albany Hancock (pp. 17 – 34)
• Notices of Remarkable Trees in Northumberland by the Rev. John F. Bigge, M.A. (pp. 35 – 43)
• Notice of the Occurrence, on this Coast, of a Holothurian (Cucumaria elongata) new to Britain by Joshua Alder (pp. 43 – 44)
• Notes on Plants New to the Flora of Northumberland, with Observations on some Critical Species by Daniel Oliver, jun., F.L.S. (pp. 44 – 50)
• Memorandum of the Occurrence of the Skeleton of the Bottlenose Whale (Hyperoodon Butzkoff, Lacépede), and of the Skull of the Grampus (Delphinus Orca, Cuvier) in the Bed of the Tyne by Dennis Embelton, M.D. (pp. 50 – 54)
• Entomological Notes, and a Record of Insects added to our Local Fauna during 1857 by Thomas John Bold (pp. 54 – 57)
• Ornithological Notes by John Hancock (pp. 57 – 60)
• Miscellaneous Notices and Observations (pp. 61 – 72)
• President’s Address, May 1859 (pp. 73 – 101)
• Notes on the Rain Fall for 1858 (pp. 101 – 103)
• Register of the Wet and Dry Days, and of the Prevailing Winds for 1858 (p. 104)
• Monthly Register of the Rain-Fall for 1858 (p. 105)
• On the Drought of 1858. By Mr. John Watson, F.R.A.S. (pp. 106 – 110)
• On the Great Auk (Alca Impennis) by Edward Charlton, Esq., M.D. (pp. 111 – 117)
• On Ancient Remains found in the bed of the River Wear, at Claxheugh, near Sunderland (pp. 117 – 122)
• On Permian Entomostraca from the Shell-Limestone of Durham by J. W. Kirkby. With Notes on the Species; by T. Rupert Jones, F.G.S. (pp. 122 – 168)
• Explanations of Plates VIII, IX, X and XI (pp. 168 – 171)
• Entomological Notes, and List of Coleopterous Insects added to our Fauna during 1858 by Thomas John Bold (pp. 172 – 176)
• Description of two new species of Sertularian Zoophytes, Found on the coast of Northumberland by Joshua Alder, Esq. (pp. 177 – 179)
• Account of a species of Phalangista, recently killed in the County of Durham by John Hogg, M.A., F.R.S., F.L.S., &c.* (pp. 180 – 184)
• Miscellaneous Notices and Observations (pp. 185 – 189)
• List of Officers for the Year ending February, 1860 (p. 190)
• President’s Address, March 1860 (pp. 191 – 228)
• List of Office-Bearers for the Year 1860-1 (pp. 229 – 231)
• The Treasurer in Account with the Tyneside Naturalists’ Field Club (p. 232)
• Notes on the Rain-Fall for 1859 by Henry T. Mennell (pp. 233 – 235)
• Monthly Register of the Rain-Fall in Inches, with the Number of Days in which Rain Fell, & of the Prevailing Winds for 1859 (pp. 236 – 237)
• On the Permian Chitonidæ by J.W. Kirkby (pp. 238 – 263)
• Note upon the Occurrence of a Rotiferon in Vaucheria by Daniel Oliver, Jun., F.L.S. (pp. 263 – 265)
• A Catalogue of the Marine Algae of Northumberland and Durham by George S. Brady (pp. 266 – 318)
• Contributions to the Zoology of Seaham Harbour by George Hodge (pp. 319 – 321)
• Remarks on some new Microscopic Algae. Collected by Thomas Atthey by Tuffen West, F.L.S. (pp. 321 – 326)
• On an undescribed Crustacean of the Genus Mysis by the Rev. Alfred Merle Norman, M.A. (pp. 326 – 330)
• On Ancient Stones, bearing Concentric Circles, found in the parish of Stamfordham, 1860 by the Rev. J.F. Bigge, M.A. (pp. 330 – 332)
• Theory of the Formation of Sulphur in Volcanic Countries by Robert C. Clapham (pp. 332 – 333)
• Miscellaneous Notices and Observations (pp. 334 – 337)
• List of Members, December 1860 (pp. 338 – 347)
• Illustrations to Volume IV (p. 348)
• Index to Volume IV (pp. 349 – 353)

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