Transactions of the Tyneside Naturalists’ Field Club 1861 – 1862

Summary

Transactions of the Tyneside Naturalists’ Field Club 1861 – 1862

This volume includes:

• President’s Address, April 1861 (pp. 1 – 21)
• Elected Members (pp. 21 – 23)
• Office Bearers (pp. 23 – 24)
• Rules of the Club (pp. 24 – 26)
• Treasurer’s Account (p. 27)
• Meteorological Report for 1860 by Henry T. Mennell (pp. 28 – 33)
• Monthly Register of the Rain-Fall in Inches, Etc (pp. 34 – 35)
• Table of the Rain-Fall, Etc (pp. 36 – 37)
• On Certain Changes in the Plumage of the Pheasant by the Right Hon. Lord Ravensworth (pp. 38 – 39)
• Notice of the Breeding of the Tufted Duck (Anas fuligula) in Northumberland by John Hancock (pp. 39 – 41)
• On the Common Brittle Star (Ophiocoma rosula), with some Remarks on the Growth of the Rays and their Appendages Pl. 1. (pp. 41 – 48)
• On a Spider (Neriene errans) inhabiting Coal Mines by David P. Morison, Pelton Colliery (pp. 49 – 52)
• List of Coleopterous Insects added to our Fauna during 1859 and 1860 by Thomas John Bold (pp. 52 – 57)
• Miscellaneous Notices and Observations (pp. 57 – 63)
• Addition to Mr. Hodge’s Paper on the Brittle Star (p. 64)
• Effects of the Severe Winter of 1860-1 upon Evergreen Vegetation in Northumberland by Ralph Carr, Esq. (pp. 65 – 73)
• Algological Notes, 1861 by G. S. Brady. (pp. 74 – 77)
• Contributions to the Marine Zoology of Seaham Harbour by George Hodge. Pl. II., figs. 1-9. (pp. 78 – 82)
• On a New Hydroid Zoophyte (Podocoryne Alder) by George Hodge (pp. 82 – 84)
• Notice of the occurrence of Caprimulgus ruficollis in England by John Hancock (pp. 84 – 85)
• Some remarks on the common Glow-worm, Lampyris Noctiluca and its Larva by V. R. Perkins (pp. 85 – 88)
• Local Superstitions at Stamfordham by the Rev. John F. Bigge, M.A (pp. 88 – 98)
• Local Superstitions by the Rev. H. B. Tristram (p. 98)
• Remarks on the Ornithology of the North Tyne by Edward Charlton, Esq., M.D.(pp. 99 – 102)
• Curious instinct of Wasps by Thomas John Bold (pp. 102 – 103)
• Description and Analysis of an undescribed Mineral from Jarrow Slake by E. J. J. Browell (pp. 103 – 104)
• Remarks upon the Preservation of Animals by William Green, Jun. (pp. 104 – 110)
• Notes on the Fossil Remains of some recent and extinct Mammalia found in the Counties of Northumberland and Durham by Richard Howse (pp. 111 – 121)
• Analyses and Description of Magnesian Limestone, from the Trow Rocks by Robt. Calvert Clapham (pp. 122 – 124)
• Observations on a Species of Pycnogon (Phoxichilidium coccineum, Johnston), with an attempt to explain the Order of its development by George Hodge (pp. 124 – 136)
• Notes on the Botany of the South Durham Ballast Hills in the Year 1861 by the Rev. Alfred Merle Norman, M.A. (pp. 136 – 140)
• Notes on the Species into which the Linnean Polygonum aviculare has been divided by Continental Botanists by the Rev. Alfred Merle Norman, M.A (pp. 140 – 143)
• On species of Ostracoda, found in Northumberland and Durham, new to Great Britain by the Rev. Alfred Merle Norman, M.A (pp. 143 – 151)
• Miscellaneous Notices and Observations (pp. 151 – 155)
• Committee’s Address, April 1862 (pp. 156 – 206)
• Treasurer’s Account, (p. 207)
• Meteorological Report for 1861 edited by Henry T. Mennell (pp. 208 – 213)
• Monthly Register of the Rain-Fall in Inches, Etc (pp. 214 – 216)
• Tables of the dates of the Flowering of Plants, the Arrival of Birds, &c. by John Coppin, Esq. (pp. 216 – 219)
• Notes on some Peculiarities of Insect life in 1861 by Thomas John Bold (pp. 219 – 221)
• Coleopterous Insects added to the Fauna of Northumberland and Durham, in 1861 by Thomas John Bold (pp. 221 – 223)
• Entomological Notes for the year 1861 by V. R. Perkins (pp. 223 – 248)
• Miscellaneous notices and observations (pp. 248 – 249)
• Notices to Members (p. 250)
• Report of the Dredging Expedition to the Dogger Bank and the Coasts of Northumberland, edited by Henry T. Mennell (pp. 251 – 262)
• Report on the Crustacea by the Rev. A. Merle Norman, M.A. (pp. 263 – 280)
• Report on the Pycnogonoidea, with descriptions of Two New Species by George Hodge (pp. 281 – 283)
• Report on the Echinodermata by Mr. George S. Brady (pp. 283 – 287)
• Report on the Zoophytes by Mr. Joshua Alder. (pp. 288 – 290)
• Report on the Foraminifera, by Mr. Henry B. Brady, F.L.S. (pp. 291 – 295)
• On a new Sand Star of the genus Ophiura (Ophiura Normani), found on the coast of Northumberland and Durham by George Hodge (pp. 296 – 297)
• Contributions to the Marine Zoology of Seaham Harbour by George Hodge (pp. 298 – 303)
• Notes on the Flora of the Old and West Hartlepool Ballast Hills, with a list of the rarer and more characteristic species by M. A. Lawson, B.A., Trin. Coll., Cam. (pp. 304 – 311)
• Entomological Notes by V.R. Perkins (pp. 312 – 313)
• List of Bees taken in the Neighbourhood of Newcastle-upon-Tyne by Vincent R. Perkins (pp. 313 – 315)
• Description of a New Species of Naked Mollusca by Albany Hancock, F.L.S. (pp. 315 – 316)
• Occurrence of Antiopa cristata on the Durham Coast by George S. Brady (p. 316)
• Occurrence of Limax gagates, near South Shields by Richard Howse (p. 316 – 317)
• Algological Notes, 1862 by George S. Brady (pp. 317 – 318)
• Miscellaneous Notices and Observations (pp. 318 – 321)
• List of Members, December 1862 (pp. 322 – 335)
• Index (pp. 336 – 341)

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