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Darling, Esq., P. J. Selby, Esq., and Mr Embleton ; and Mr Tancred, 

 who was present, was elected a Member before the meeting separated. 

 The majority of the Members visited the limestone quarries near Lowick, 

 which were known to be rich in organic remains, and from which the Re- 

 verend Mr Jenkinson has procured his extensive and beautiful collection, 

 the examination of his fine specimens occupying the forenoon in a very 

 interesting manner. Mr Embleton made alone an excursion across 

 the Lowick moors as far as Kyloe Crags, but found nothing new to the 

 district to reward his toil. Dinner having been discussed, Dr John- 

 ston was elected President, and Mr Embleton, Secretary, for the ensu- 

 ing session. Mr Selby exhibited a remarkably fine specimen of the 

 Catoeala Fraxini, — the largest and amongst the rarest and most beauti- 

 ful of British moths — which had been a short time previously captured 

 at Twizell House by Mrs Tancred. And a collection of the radiated 

 animals found in the sea near Embleton was shewn by Mr Embleton, 

 amongst which was a fine specimen of Croniaster equestris, — another 

 of Ophiocoma Goodsirii, — and another of Spatangus purpureus, all new 

 to our coast, and the only ones which had come under his notice, although 

 his attention had been directed to these animals for several years past. 



At our December meeting, held, as usual, at Berwick, the Club break- 

 fasted with Dr Clarke, whose guests were Dr Johnston, Captain Carpen- 

 ter, Mr M*Beath, Mr Home, and Mr Robert Maclaurin, — a. company 

 by much too small for the liberality which had furnished the table. 

 After some routine business, William Murray, Esq. of Marshall-MeaF- 

 dows, was elected a Member ; and a paper, communicated by Mr Jamet 

 Hardy, ** on Bowling as an extinct Berwickshire sport," was hailed as 

 the first contribution to our annual publication. But what most inter- 

 ested the meeting was the exhibition of a large and very splendid 

 species of starfish,' which was at once perceived to be new to our Fauna ; 

 and the belief expressed that it was unknown to zoologists, has been con- 

 firmed by Professor Edward Forbes, who has since described and figured 

 our specimen, under the name of Gonicister abbensis, in the 11th vol. 

 of the Annals and Magtizine of Natural History. For this addition to 

 our Fauna, naturalists are indebted to Mr Robert Maclaurin, a zealous 

 coadjutor of the Club. The specimen, now in the possession of Profes- 

 sor Forbes, was found between St Abb's Head and the Isle of May, 

 and was brought up on the lines of the fishermen from a depth of about 

 30 fathoms. 



The village of Horcliffe or Horckley, was the scene of our Meeting 

 in May, and had we been bound on a border raid, we could not have 



