120 REV. MR Clark's address. 



Mr Home, the whole party, arrayed in grey Codringtons, which 

 would appear to have been selected as the uniform of the Club on 

 this occasion, sallied forth on a walking expedition along the 

 majestic sea banks as far as Marshall Meadows, to inspect the 

 progress of the works on the line of the North British Railway, 

 and to examine some curious sections which had taken place in 

 that neighbourhood ; the most remarkable geological appearance 

 which presented itself being a large deposit of gravel and sand, at 

 a height of nearly 200 feet above the level of the sea, and super- 

 imposed upon a solid sandstone rock. The roots of Equisetum 

 ai'vense were observed to descend perpendicularly through the sand 

 and gravel, to the depth of more than twelve feet. The beautiful 

 coast at Marshall Meadows, and the improvements and alterations 

 carrying on by Mr MuiTay and the Railway Company, attracted 

 the attention of the Members for a considerable time. An elegant 

 collation having been partaken of at the pressing solicitation of 

 Mr Murray, the party, amidst a tempest of wind and occasional 

 drifting showers, retraced their steps to Berwick, where a sub- 

 stantial dinner awaited them at the Hen and Chickens Inn. Dr 

 Clarke read an elegant essay on the situation of yew trees in 

 the vicinity of churchyards ; and, after a long and interesting 

 conversation on many subjects connected with natural histoiy, the 

 Members departed, to re-assemble in Mr Home's drawing-room, 

 where the evening was spent in pleasing intercourse with the 

 ladies of his household and the Misses Johnston. Music and 

 dancing lent their charms ; and the whole proceedings of the day 

 were crowned by a masquerade in the lobby before the visitors 

 took their departure. 



On the 7th of May, the muster of members was unusually 

 small for a " May meeting," which might be partly ascribed to 

 the badness of the preceding day. Those who did attend deserved 

 a vote of thanks ; they were the Rev. J. J). Clark, President, 

 Dr Johnston, Mr Selby, Captain Cari)enter, and the Rev. G. 

 Walker. 



After breakfast, two of the party endeavoured, with partial suc- 

 cess, to catch fish for the dinner, while the other moiety wandered 

 up the Blackadder, contented to admire the sceneiy and the woods, 

 for the unpropitious weather, the want of sun, the passing clouds, 

 and the occasional showers of rain, rendered all insect hunting 



