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rence to other rocks, which will be noticed immediately, and the diffi- 

 culty of regarding them as members of any other formation, seem to 

 forbid us from arriving at any other conclusion. After travelling over 

 these strata upwards of a mile above the bridge, in which distance we 

 find them frequently traversed by dykes of claystone, porphyry, and 

 basalt, they are succeeded by what is undoubtedly the old red sand- 

 stone formation, and this again, at no great distance, is succeeded by the 

 greywacke and greywacke-slate, the principal rocks of the transition 

 series. Thus, in the course of less than two miles, the three great for- 

 mations of Berwickshire may not only be observed, but their junction 

 the junction especially of the old red sandstone with the greywacke, 

 may be very beautifully and distinctly seen even more distinctly, if 

 that were possible, than the same appearance at the celebrated Siccar 

 Point. The hill of Stainsheil is a huge mass of a very beautiful rock, 

 the transition granite or sienite, subordinate apparently to the grey- 

 wacke. I shall not at present, however, farther anticipate the fuller de- 

 tails, which may, ere long, be read to the Club. 



The insects captured or observed were neither numerous nor interest- 

 ing, and the only communication of any importance which was submit- 

 ted to the Club at this meeting, was a summary of observations of the 

 barometer, thermometer, hygrometer, &c. for the preceding year, by the 

 Rev. Mr Wallace, which, for the fulness and accuracy of its details, called 

 forth unanimous approbation. 



At our meeting in July, at the Lamb Inn, near to Haggorstou, we 

 were favoured, as at all our preceding meetings of this year, with a 

 beautiful day, and a large party of members and visitors had assembled 

 to enjoy the excursion. There were here two objects of attraction, the 

 sea-coast and Kyloe Crags, and the members were divided in their 

 choice. One party, therefore, took the direction of the former, another 

 of the latter, and fortune smiled upon them both. The former party, in 

 the salt-marshes at Beal, met with in abundance Scirpus maritimus y Ar- 

 temisia maritima, Chenopodium maritimum, Poaprocumbens, (EnaiUke 

 crocatQ, Aira aquatica, and a plant new to the district, Biysmus rw/Ws, 

 growing in abundance from four to eighteen inches in height. Return- 

 ing from the coast, they observed near Kyloe Church Ranunculus or- 

 vcnsis, Solatium dulcamara, and in Kyloe Dean Betonica officinalit, 

 Carex remota, ErytJtrcca centauria, Eupatorium cannabinum, and a 

 rare British species, the Hieracium mollc. 



The other party was not less successful. On Kyloe Crags they ob- 

 served in great profusion Thalictrum minus, Cynoglossum officinale ; 

 and a plant new to the district, Asplcnium septentrionale, was gathered 

 in some abundance on the precipitous cliffs, where also, and in the debris 

 below, were seen Euonymus curopanu, and our familiar friends the holly 



