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track ; while a third set wandered leisurely round by the loch in search 

 of rarities in any class or kingdom of animal ity, but they were as 

 little successful as their murderous or sporting colleagues. At dinner 

 the party were reunited, and afterwards, as is our wont, the Secre- 

 tary read the address of the President, who was prevented from at- 

 tending by absence from home. On the nomination of Mr Selby, Dr 

 F. Douglas was elected President for the ensuing year. A notice of 

 the occurrence of the Halicfuerw gryphus on the coast, by Dr Douglas, 

 was next read, on which Mr Selby was requested to report at the next 

 meeting. Dr Johnston was appointed Secretary for the year. 



At the Winter Meeting at Berwick, held on December 16, the fol- 

 lowing members attended : Dr Douglas, president ; Dr Johnston, se- 

 cretary; Rev. Thos. Eiddell, Mr Melrose, Dr Clarke, Mr Selby, Mr 

 Good, Rev. J. Turnbull, and Mr Langhorne. Mr Tancred, Mr Wm. 

 Tancred, and Mr Wilkie of Fouldean, attended as visitors. The mem- 

 bers of the Club having partaken of Dr Johnston's hospitality at break- 

 fast, the minutes of the last meeting were read and approved of. Mr 

 Selby then reported that the seal described by Dr Douglas, in a com- 

 munication read to the Club in September last, was, as Dr Douglas 

 supposed, the Halichterus gryphus, and that he had since procured 

 three specimens of the heads of the same species from the Fame Island, 

 where Mr Selby now believes the Phoca barbata, for which the Hali- 

 chserus had been mistaken, is not to be found. 



On the motion of Mr Selby, the Rev. J. D. Clarke, and on the mo- 

 tion of Mr Riddell, Mr David M'Beath, were admitted members of the 

 Club. It was next agreed that the Club should meet in 1841, at the 

 following places in succession, Ayton, Wooler, Bank House, and Kelso. 



Mr Selby presented the Club with a list of the dipterous insects in 

 the collection f Mr Hardy, made in the neighbourhood of the Pease- 

 bridge, and with a notice of Larus minutus, killed at Holy Island. Mr 

 Selby subsequently read an elaborate report on the ornithology of Ber- 

 wickshire, which was ordered to be printed. Dr Johnston gave in a 

 few ornithological notices of the occurrence of some rare birds in the 

 neighbourhood of Berwick. 



The Club then took their walk along the sea-banks as far as the 

 Needle-Eye ; but nothing to attract their special attention occurred, 

 beyond what arose out of the beauty and picturesqueness of the sea, 

 and many points in the rocky shore. 



After dinner, the party again assembled at Dr Johnston's who ex- 



