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Rev. Dr. Gilly. David Milne, Esq. 



Mr. Broderick. J. Renton, Esq. 



Mr. W. Dunlop. 



The stroll, for it could not fairly be called a walk, between 

 breakfast and dinner, lay down to Bummouth, Ross, and Crab 

 Hall, and along the coast northwards towards Eyemouth. The 

 features of the coast are well known to the members, and 

 some hour or so was spent in making a more familiar ac- 

 quaintance with the fishermen of the triple colony. The 

 cleanliness of their apartments is in striking contrast with th« 

 wet and uncomfortable nature of their calling; and with the 

 filth and poultry about their doors. But this is a matter be- 

 yond the Club's sphere ; — nor was the mind inclined to inves- 

 tigate the manners of even these men of lowly station, being 

 reduced to the indolence which characterises the idle on 

 idleness bent ; so the dinner was rather impatiently antici- 

 pated, and no man was behind tlie hour. 



After our genial repast, and the minutes read and agreed to, 

 a letter was read from the President, explanatory of his absence. 



The Rev. Samuel Fyler of Cornhill was then nominated as 

 a member by the Rev. Dr. Gilly, and the nomination being se- 

 conded by the Rev. Mr. Carr, the motion was placed on the 

 minutes for next meeting. A letter was read from William 

 Spence, Esq., President of the Entomological Society, rela- 

 tive to a Larva described by Mr. Selby in the Club's Proceed- 

 ings^ and the same gentleman presented a copy of his address 

 to the Entomological Society. A Table of the Weather for 

 the last year was laid before us by J. S. Donaldson Selby, 

 Esq., and a paper on the Wild Cat, by Mr. Hardy, was read. 

 Mr. Hepburn sent some additional notes on the Cushat | and 

 Dr. Hood read an essay on the Sensibility of Invertelyate Ani- 

 mals. Mr. William Dunlop exhibited two white Moles taken 

 in Buncle Manse garden, March 1848 ; and a greyish white 

 one taken in May field garden, 6th Nov., 1848. It is curious 

 that the white variety of the Mole is not uncommon in the 

 vicinity of the places where these specimens were taken. 

 Mr. Hardy sent for exhibition a number of rare Mosses found 

 in Berwickshire ; and Mr. Broderick mentioned that he had 

 got a Hoopoe, which had been shot at Warren on the 20th 

 April A considerable number of plants were observed during 



