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the discovery ul tlu not of the Dipper (Cinclus aquaticus) on the edge 

 of a little precipice overhanging a deep pool at the bottom of a water- 

 fall, a most inaccessible situation, nothing was found meriting particular 

 notice. Chrysosplenium alternifolium was afterwards found growing 

 sparingly on a wet bank by the river Eye, about a mile and a-half above 

 Houndwood ; and on the higher wooded banks above the road, large 

 patches of the Anemone mmorosa and Primula veris growing together 

 in full and magnificent blossom, attracted general admiration. 



The geology of the district was very partially observed. The only 

 rocks which presented themselves were the greywacke and greywacke 

 slate, principally the latter, exhibiting its usual variety of colour and 

 structure. The same rocks seem to occupy a very considerable portion 

 of this part of Berwickshire, composing the greater part of the Lam- 

 merraoor range in the neighbourhood, and extending from thence to the 

 sea-coast. 



After dinner a specimen of Arvicola pratensis, taken at Twizel, an 

 addition to the quadrupeds of the district, was exhibited by Mr Selby. 

 No papers were read ; notwithstanding a most agreeable evening was 

 passed. 



The meeting of the Club in June was perhaps the most delightful of 

 the year. A few weeks previous to it, the cold wintry weather we had 

 experienced in the months of spring had been succeeded by the most 

 brilliant summer. There being much moisture in the soil, the warm 

 suns brought forward vegetation in the most rapid and luxuriant manner. 

 Serious apprehensions had been entertained only a short time before, of 

 a general failure of the crops ; but a week or two of the splendid weather 

 which followed soon banished all fear on this subject ; and we have once 

 more experienced in this instance the truth of the Divine promise, that 

 while the world endures, seed-time and harvest and day and night shall 

 not cease. God has at length crowned the year with his goodness, 

 after we had almost begun to despair that any harvest, with its golden 

 treasures, would gladden our fields. 



After breakfast at Dunse, the members proceeded to the appointed 

 scene of the day's excursion, the banks of the Whitadder, in the neigh - 



11. Peryphus littoralis. 19. Aphodiu* prodromus. 



12. Pery. tibialis. 20. terrettris. 



13. Helophorus granular!* 21. ^Eratua. 



14. Sitona ulicia. 22. Quedius picicorou. 



15. Sitona apartii. 23. Gabriu* pallipes. 



16. A pi.. 1 1 24. Rugilut immunis. 



1 7. Phaedua tumidula. 25. Aleochara 



18. Thyamii 10. Oxytelui opacut, 



A vry rare dipterous fly was alao taken. It was found in a email haugb by the nl- <( 

 a rivulet, where potatoes bad been grown the pit-ceding June. Four or five specimen* 

 were captured. I have not yet ascertained the name. I' ' s 



