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Ist Wednesday of May, at Hutton. 



3d Wednesday of June, Millfield, 



Last Wednesday of July, Abbey St. Bathan's and Grant's 

 House. 



3d Wednesday or the Wednesday nearest the full moon of 

 September, at Twizel House and Belford. 



The only paper read was a description of the Echiurus vul- 

 parts, by Dr. Johnston. The party afterwards walked to- 

 wards Berwick, where they dined at the Red Lion Inn, hav- 

 ing previously visited Halidon Hill, and its vicinity, andformed 

 divers conjectures as to the respective positions of the Scottish 

 and English armies, who, on the 19th of July, 1333, encountered 

 there ; when the Scottish army, commanded by Lord Douglas, 

 was defeated, with immense slaughter, by the. English, led by 

 theKing, Edward III., in person, who, on the following day, en- 

 tered Berwick as a conqueror ! Nothing novel, or worthy of 

 notice, was observed during the walk. But I gather from the 

 notes made by the Secretary, that the members, who, on the 

 20th of October, 1847, from the summit of Halidon Hill, 

 surveyed the surrounding country in a state of the highest cul- 

 tivation, were duly impressed with the advantages they pos- 

 sess over their ancestors of the 1 4th century ; and that the 

 scene presented to their view on that day was infinitely pre- 

 ferable to the " tented field," 



" The neiffhinir steed, and the shrill trump, 

 The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife. 

 The royal banner, and all quality. 

 Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war,'* 



with which the triumphant Edward, and his mail-clad barond 

 and chivalry, entered the town of Berwick, after the defeat 

 of the Scottish army. Happy, indeed, will it be for this 

 empire, and the world at large, if, from the more universal 

 cultivation and diffusion of science and the arts of peace, man- 

 kind may be rendered hereafter more aware of their real inte- 

 rests, and that wars, foreign and domestic, shall for ever cease. 



" Peace has her rictories 

 No leas renowned than war " 



On the 3d of May, 1848, the Club met at Hutton, on (he 

 Whitadder. The Secretary and two members only partook 



