198 DR. olahke's address. 



or two, to have had excellent sport. The Club were reminded 

 of the fine metaphor of Shakspeare, who seems to have been 

 as true an observer of external nature as he was master of 

 all the movements of the human heart. When Othello's sus- 

 picions of the faith of Desdemona are first awakened, he ex- 

 claims, 



" If I do find her haggard, 

 Tho' that her jesses were my dear heartstrings, 

 I'd whistle her off, and let her down the wind 

 To prey at fortune." 



On our return several specimens of Veronica filiformis* 

 were gathered in a stubble field. The seed might have been 

 carried out with manure from the village, adjoining which 

 there is an extensive nursery. A subsequent stroll by the 

 banks of the idle Till — fit emblem of the Club on that day — 

 was equally unproductive as the flight of the hawks, as nei- 

 ther anglers nor entomologists could boast of their success. 

 To this, dinner succeeded, and the annual address of the Pre- 

 sident ; after which, on the nomination of Mr. Selby, seconded 

 by Captain Carpenter, Dr. Clarke was unanimously elected 

 President for the year, and Dr. Johnston was re-elected Se- 

 cretary. 



Mr. Selby exhibited a beautiful drawing of a Hawk-moth, 

 allied to the Death's-head Sphinx, but apparently specifically 

 distinct: and in addition, four very fine specimens of the 

 Sphinx convolvuli, three of the migratory locust, and one of 

 the red comma butterfly, all taken in our district, and the lat- 

 ter in the garden at Twizell House. 



Mr. Boyd also exhibited an individual of the Sphinx con- 

 volvuli taken near Yetholm. This gave rise to some conver- 

 sation relative to the unusual number of several insects, ge- 

 nerally considered rare, which had come forth this year ; and 

 the rarity of others which are considered common. Mr. 

 Broderick remarked that he had seen the "Camberwell 

 Beauty'' on Twizel-moor about the middle of August. Mr. 

 Selby promised to put the facts which had come to his know- 

 ledge on the subject together, and lay the paper before the 

 Club. 



Mr. Darling exhibited some very interesting specimens to 



• Jolinston's Flora of Berwick, i. p. 226, pi. 2. 



