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THIS volume of upwards of 250 pages confirms the reputation already attained by the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club, as being one of the most efficient provincial scientific societies in the kingdom. Nearly all the papers are of real and permanent value, and it is to be hoped that ere long some means will be found of bringing the work of this and similar societies before a larger public than is likely to be reached by “Transactions,” which are seldom seen by any but the members or their friends. A large part of the volume is devoted to the excellently compiled Meteorological Reports for 1870 and 1871, by the Rev. R. F. Wheeler, M.A. There is here much valuable material, more interestingly and artistically put together than such reports usually are. Mr. T. J. Bold contributes a well-arranged catalogue of 151 species of Hemiptera-Heteroptera of Northumberland and Durham. Mr. Bold contributes besides many valuable notes on various other kinds of insects found in the district so well worked by the Tyneside society; Mr. Bold deserves the highest credit for the quantity and quality of his work. Messrs. A. Hancock and T. Atthey describe a considerable portion of a Mandibular Ramus of Anthracosaurus Russelli (Huxley), found in the new ironstone shale of Fenton; they also add some notes on Loxomma Almanni (Huxley), and on some additional remains of Archichthys Sulcidens (Hancock and Atthey), recently found at Newsharn. The same gentlemen contribute a few remarks on Dipterus and Ctenodus, and on their relationship to Ceratodus Forsteri (Krefft). A well-arranged list of the non-parasitic marine Copepoda of the north-east coast of England is Mr. G, S. Brady's contribution to the volume. The President's address, consisting mainly of a graphic account of the numerous club excursions during 1871, is the last paper in the volume, one of the most valuable features of which is the numerous and carefully executed lithographs which are appended. Nearly every paper is illustrated. Altogether it is a thoroughly satisfactory specimen of work.
Natural History Transactions of Northumberland and Durham.
Vol. IV. Part II. (Williams and Norgate.)
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Natural History Transactions of Northumberland and Durham . Nature 7, 221 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/007221a0
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