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Excerpt from Natural History Transactions of Northumberland, Durham and Newcastle-on-Tyne, Vol. 8: Being Papers Read at the Meetings of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, and the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club, 1880-89
After seeing the fine pictures in the galleries, the members proceeded through the grounds under the kind guidance of Mr. Wallace and Mr, Mould, and saw the damage caused by the un precedentedly Severe winter to the conifers and rarer evergreens. None but our hardiest natives and the Rhododendrons appeared to have escaped. After a pleasant ramble beyond the grounds fifty of the party returned to the Ravensworth Arms, Lamesley, to dinner. Here a paper was read by the Rev. A. Watts, of Durham, On a Limestone Boulder found near Hawthorn, ground and scratched by glacial ice action. Mr. T. Thompson exhibited a nest with the unusual number of ten eggs of the Sparrow-hawk, taken in April, 1878, near Gilsland, in which n'est this year a pair of Long-eared Owls had reared their young. The President Spoke of the importance of the members of the Club interesting themselves in the preservation of the Roman remains recently discovered in the excavated camp at South Shields Lawe. A large portion of this has been generously handed over for preservation to the Corporation of South Shields by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and has since been carefully walled in and protected, it is to be hoped, from danger of further depredation.
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