Address to the Members of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, delivered 

 at the Anniversary Meeting, held at Ford, 19th September 1838. By 

 Dr CLARKE, President 



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IN the following summary of our transactions, I regret to say that our 

 meetings have not been so fertile in new or interesting results as in 

 former years, but they have continued to be, as heretofore, scenes of 

 cheerful and rational enjoyment, animated by the same genial spirit 

 marked by the same friendly interchange of thought and opinion, and 

 never, even for a moment, clouded by the shadow of angry or intem- 

 perate discussion. But though the Club, as an associated body, has 

 fallen short of the reputation of other years, I rejoice to say, that her 

 members individually have not slackened their efforts in the cause of 

 Science. I mention, with especial pleasure, the description of the Ber- 

 wick and North Durham Coalfield, given by Mr Milne at the meeting of 

 the British Association, which Dr Buckland noticed in a strain of high 

 panegyric ; an elaborate account of the Salmonidae by Sir W. Jardine, 

 pervaded by a spirit of philosophic and dispassionate inquiry ; and a 

 systematic work on British Zoophytes by Dr Johnston, whose name is a 

 sufficient warrant for fidelity of description and accuracy of induction, 

 and which the scientific world will hail as filling up a blank in the Na- 

 tural History of Britain. 



The last Anniversary was held at Norham. The members, of whom 

 there was a strong muster, after breakfasting with the Rev. Dr Gilly, 

 proceeded to investigate the neighbourhood. One party examined the 

 geological structure of the district, as disclosed by the banks of the 

 Tweed, an account of which Mr Milne has forwarded to the Club. Drs 

 Johnston and Douglas followed the windings of the river as far as 

 Milne Graden, and obtained the following plants: Asplenium Ruta- 

 Muraria, an addition to the cryptogamic Flora of Berwickshire ; Asple- 

 nium marinum, on rocks near Lady- kirk, three miles above tide-mark, 

 and above ten from the sea ; Cistopteris fragilis, from Lady's Bridge, 

 Milne Graden; Galium boreale, from the Scarth Crags; Thalictrum 

 majus; Euonymus europanis ; Lysimachia nummularia ; Lactuca viroea; 

 Viola hirta, &c., on the rocky and woody banks of the Tweed. 



The Christmas Meeting took place as usual at Berwick, and was well 

 attended. Mr Henderson of Chirnside sent specimens of Melalontha 

 vulgaris, and Rhagium bifaciatum, taken in his neighbourhood. Mr Selby 

 mentioned that the dipterous fly, taken at Hound wood last May, was 

 Tachina ursina. Dr Douglas exhibited specimens of Trochilium cra- 

 bonifonne, in its different stages of caterpillar, chrysalis, and moth, to- 



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