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dent read the usual annual Address. Mr George Darling was elected 

 President, and Dr Johnston, Secretary, for the ensuing year. Mr 

 William Rowe of Coldstream, and Mr John Boyd of Cherrytrees, were 

 proposed and admitted members of the Club. No papers were road, 

 nor any communications of importance made to the Meeting. 



During the walk, nothing new was observed. Several plants, how- 

 ever, were noticed which are of rare occurrence within the limits of 

 the Club, such as Viola hirta, Thaliotrum majus, Clinopodium vulgare, 

 Epipactis latifolia, Listera cordata ; and Dr F. Douglas pointed out 

 the habitat of a beautiful coral-like fungus, Clavaria rosea, which has 

 not been discovered in any other locality in Great Britain. Some small 

 specimens were gathered, but they were not in perfection, and their 

 beauty was nearly gone. 



The December Meeting was appointed for the 1 5th December, at 

 Berwick, but, from the extreme severity of the day, the members from 

 the country were prevented attending, and little beyond fixing places 

 of meeting for the ensuing summer, and passing the Seci'etary's ac- 

 counts, was done. A continuation of Dr Johnston's catalogue of the 

 Molluscous Animals of Berwickshire, and an extensive catalogue of the 

 Coleopterous Insects of the district, which forms the Club's park, by Mr 

 George Dunlop, were laid before the Members ; and, as Mr Dunlop is 

 not a member of the Club, its thanks were cordially voted to him, for 

 a communication so much in accordance with its professed object. 



1842. — The first Meeting of the year was held at Coldstream, on 

 the 4th of May. The members present were — Mr Darling, President, 

 Mr Selby, Dr Johnston, Dr Clarke, Rev. Mr Barnes, Mr F. CoIUng- 

 wood, Mr W. Rowe, Mr Melrose, Rev. Dixon Clarke, and Dr F. Doug- 

 las. Mr Tancred and Mr G. Carr favoured the Club as visitors. 



The " merrie month of May" commenced — as the lads and lasses 

 who, in the more southern counties, dance round the may-pole, and 

 crown their rustic queen with Nature's freshest garlands, would wish to 

 see it ever — bright, warm, and joyous ; but on the morning of the 4th, 

 a hazy appearance made each husbandman rejoice in the hope of a soft 

 and refreshing rain, nor were they altogether disappointed. Towards 

 ten o'clock, a warm drizzling rain bedewed the hot earth, and the fields, 

 when the sun again broke forth in his glory, had that heated smok- 

 ing appearance so congenial to the growth of the young crops. The 

 Club, after a breakfast at Mr Mauchlin's, which required the appetite 

 of long travel to make it tolerable, divided in search of the day's 



