Address to the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club. 1 1 



ornithologist, exclaimed — " Horn-? -iK -hollow-jest I A bitter 

 Whig, I know he is, as ever growled at placeman or parson ; 

 and is not ashamed of it : but I never thought the crazy Coun- 

 sellor had any Religion ; but 'tis better he be of that, than of 

 no Religion." 



Von Os. Ha, ha, ha ! — a joke of your own making ! — too 

 good to be true. 



Dov. Really as true as that my name is 



John F. M. Dovaston. 

 Westfelton, near Shrewsbury, 

 Oct. 28. 1832. 



Art. II. Address to the Members of the Berwickshire Naturalists' 

 Club, Sept. 19. 1832. By George Johnston, M.D. 



The Berwickshire Naturalists' Club was instituted in Sep- 

 tember, 1831, by some gentlemen who interested themselves 

 in natural history, and were anxious to do their best to aid 

 one another in their pursuits, and to diffuse a taste for them 

 among others. The club meets four times in the year, and 

 the place of its meeting is changed every time, to afford the 

 members an opportunity of examining in succession every 

 part of the neighbourhood. The members meet early in the 

 morning; they spend the forenoon in excursions, and they 

 again assemble at dinner, after which any papers that may be 

 laid before them are read and discussed freely. The first 

 anniversary meeting was held at Coldstream on the 19th of 

 September, 1832, when the following address was read by 

 the president on his resigning the chair. 



Gentlemen, 

 Before I leave the distinguished station which, by your 

 favour, I hold in this club, you will permit me to take a cur- 

 sory view of what has been done, during this the first year of 

 its existence, towards forwarding the objects for which we 

 principally associated ourselves ; a more accurate knowledge, 

 to wit, of the natural history and antiquities of Berwickshire 

 and the adjacent parts of the neighbouring counties : and I 

 am induced to do this, not because our labours have elicited 

 much of interest or importance ; not because I can hope to 

 give any additional impulse to your zeal, or direction to your 

 future pursuits ; but that I may, so far as in me lies, set an 

 example to my successors in this chair to give you, at each 



