THE RKV. MR BAlHD's ADDRRM. 



observed at Yetholm Loch, tlie Lycopus europceus, &c. and a few gpecimcns 

 of Hieraceum denticulatum, were gathered ; and several insects and lar- 

 vae of some rarity were obtained in both situations. Ascending, then, 

 the lofty and classic hills of Wideopen and Crookedshaws, the scene of 

 the snow-storm in Thomson's " Winter/' and memorable from the oc- 

 casional residence of the poet himself, in a small cottage situated in a 

 little glen on the former hill ; we descended into the vale of Bowmont 

 Water. Mentha gentilis was gathered in wet ground by the margin of 

 the river near to Primside Mill, and on the roadside, Carduus nufans 

 sparingly. 



The rocks of the district walked over were exclusively trap, the pre- 

 vailing, almost the only one being the felspar porphyry. Numerous large 

 boulders of the pitchstone porphyry were observed ; this rock being known 

 to occur among the lower hills of the Cheviot. 



After dinner, and the excellent address of our late President, Sir Wil- 

 liam Jardine, several other valuable and interesting communications were 

 read. 1. A notice of the Effect of the root of the Monk's-Hood (Aconi- 

 lum napellus) on the Horse, by Mr Henderson. 2. Notice of Scolopax ma- 

 jor (Great or Solitary Snipe) by Mr Selby. 3. A List, by the same gentle- 

 man, of some of the rarer nocturnal Lepidoptera, taken during the sea- 

 son at Twizel House. 4. A Notice, by the Rev. A. Baird, of an An- 

 cient Sea-Beach recently exposed by a violent storm on the coast near 

 Dunglass. 5. An Analysis of Lithomarge from Maxton. by Dr Robert 

 Thomson ; also an Analysis of Fuller's-earth from the same situation ; 

 and some remarks by the same member on Potamogeton oblongus. 6. 

 A List of Day-flying Lepidoptera y captured during the last summer by 

 Mr M'Laurin junior. Some other communications were received, but 

 the reading of them was postponed to the meeting of the Club in "De- 

 cember. 



At the meeting in December, held as usual at Berwick (for any noti- 

 tices of which I must be chiefly indebted to our Secretary's minutes), a 

 considerable number of members appear to have been present; and 

 though, in consequence of the state of the weather, and other circum- 

 stances, the excursion was short, and produced nothing of interest ; yet 

 there appears to have been no lack of in-door occupation and enter- 

 tainment. Several long and interesting papers were read, one by Mr 

 Henderson, on the Popular Rhymes of Berwickshire ; another, by Mr 

 Darling, on the black-turnip Caterpillar ; a third by Mr Donaldson, re- 

 ceived from Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, entitled " Practical Ob- 

 servations on the Par, by James Kerse, fisher, Bowhill ;" a fourth, by the 

 Rev. Mr Parker ; from the Rev. Mr Cooke regarding a Skeleton and 

 Stone- Coffin dug up in Chatton church-yard, for which Mr Parker 

 requested to convey to Mr Cooke the thanks of the Gub. 



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