IlEV. THOMAS ttlDDBLL'S ADDIll 



Dr Johnston, Dr Clarke, Mr Selby, Rev. Mr Turnbull ; and Mr 

 M'Laren, a visitcr, well known to the members by his valuable coii- 

 (ribiitions lo our Transactions. 



After the ordinary business had been transacted, and the stations 

 li\rd for the ensuing year, several communications were read. 



The Rev. J. Baird sent a notice that a specimen of the Bohemian 

 waxwing had been taken at Yetholm in the beginning of December. 



The Rev. R. Cowe (of Whitsome) presented the Club with a de- 

 scription of the various modes of taking- white-fish, &c. on the coast 

 of Berwickshire, for which the Secretary was directed to write him 

 a letter of thanks in the name of the Club. 



Mr M'Laren gave in a list of bivalve shells taken at Coldingham, 

 new to Berwickshire.* This communication, therefore, is supple- 

 mentary to the Catalogue given at p. 77 of the Transactions. 



Mr Solby read a paper descriptive of a hybrid between the black- 

 cock and hen pheasant. The bird was a male, and exhibited in a 

 very striking manner the peculiarities of both parents. A female, 

 probably belonging to the same brood, was killed the year before, and 

 is preserved in the Newcastle Museum. 



Mr Riddel 1 read a notice of the scenes enacted in the neighbour- 

 hood of Yevering when Christianity was first introduced into that part 

 of the country, under Edwin, King of Northumbria; and another on 

 the prices and consumption of fish in England previous to the Refor- 

 mation. The materials were chiefly those furnished by the publica- 

 tions of tho Surtees Society, especially the excellent index aim 

 by Mr Raine to the volume containing the yearly accounts of Tin- 

 dale Priory. Many sorts of fish were then used as food which no one 

 would now think of eating. 



Dr Johnston laid before tho Club the first part of a dcscripthe 

 catalogue of the Berwickshire Gastropodous Mollusca. 



The first meeting of the present year, held at Cornhill on the 6th 

 May, I was prevented from attending. The members present were, 

 Mr Selby, Dr Johnston, Dr Clarke, DrF. Douglas, Rev. Mr Cunning- 

 ham, Rev. John Baird ; Mr J. Langhorne, Dr Wilson, and Mr Mel- 

 rose, attended as visiters. 



After breakfast, the party proceeded to the old tower and village 

 of Wark, where parts of that ancient border fortress are still standing. 

 On leaving Wark, the members directed their walk for nearly a mile 



* Terek-atula jw<lacca. -A dead specimen, got ou the lines of the <A>ldn 

 tuhennen. 

 Pcctunculus pilottts. Not uncommon ; but only dead specimens have occurred. 



/>... ? Cvldingham. This is prolmbl v u new species. 



(VyfaH/tn /tacuoM inl &lv rare. 



I.uriiM i <<//'.(. Common. 



