^ MR DARLING S ADDRESS. 



the weiis were dried up ; yet sickness has not prevailed, to add horror 

 to suffering : and now it has pleased an allwise Providence to send his 

 refreshing rains, and plenty will again smile over the length and 

 breadth of our beloved island. 



The Anniversary Meeting of 1841 was held at Kelso ; the members 

 present being — Dr F. Douglas, President, Dr Johnston, Dr Clarke, Rev. 

 Geo. Cunningham, Rev. John Baird, Rev. Andrew Baird, Messrs Geo. 

 Darling, and Jonathan Melrose. The Meeting was favoured by the 

 company of Dr Douglas, Dr Wilson, and Mr John Boyd. 



Not having been in time to join the Members in their agreeable 

 ramble, I am indebted to the pen of Dr F. Douglas for the notice of 

 this Meeting. 



'* The members of the Club having breakfasted with Dr Douglas, 

 set out on their walk, which first took them to the Chalk Heugh, an 

 eminence overhanging the Tweed, which commands one of the finest 

 panoramic views in the south of Scotland. Thence the eye ranges as 

 far as the *' Eildon three," and the Waterloo column, surmounting Pin- 

 nacle Heugh, a monument of Britain's glory. Nearer are beheld the 

 mounds of Roxburgh's ruined pile ; and, as if in contrast, the stately 

 palace of Floors, bosomed in the richest woods, already shewing the 

 many coloured tints of autumn, and the " silver tide" of Teviot ming- 

 ling with " Tweed's pellucid stream ;" while almost beneath our feet 

 the " copse clad isles amid the waters rise." After feasting our eyes 

 on this enchanting spot, rendered doubly beautiful by the brightness of 

 the sun, and the clearness and buoyancy of the atmosphere, the party 

 visited the Museum of the Tweedside Physical and Antiquarian Society, 

 and spent some time in examining its various contents ; then, by the 

 kind permission of the Duke of Roxburghe, the members walked through 

 his Grace's park, and inspected the very extensive and magnificent im- 

 provements carrying on at Floors Castle. The walk was then directed 

 through the woods along the bank of the Tweed, to Trow's Crags, where 

 the river is curbed with a bridle of stone, which tradition ascribes to the 

 wondrous wizard Michael Scott. From Trows the party proceeded to 

 Makerstone, where they were politely shewn the different observatories 

 erected by Sir Thomas Makdougal Brisbane. A new observatory, for 

 magnetic observations, attracted considerable attention. The Tweed 

 was crossed below Makerstone House, and the party returned to Kelso, 

 and had barely time to spend five minutes in visiting a fine horticultu- 

 ral exhibition, before they were called to the necessary and agreeable 

 business of dinner, in the Cross Keys' Hotel. After dinner the Presi- 



