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opportunity of comparing it with other species. It seemed to 

 me the same as that usually found on our coast.' " 



October 12th, 1853. — "There were present at this Meeting, 

 Dr. Johnston, Dr. Clarke, Captain Carpenter, Rev. Joseph W. 

 Barnes, Rev. J. Dixon Clark, Mr. Home, Mr. Clay, Mr. Tate, 

 Rev. George Carpenter, Dr. Cahill and Mr. Logan. The party 

 were breakfasted by Mr. Home. Afterwards, the Meeting being 

 constituted by the senior Member present taking the chair, the 

 Minutes of the previous Meeting were read and confirmed ; and 

 Dr. James Wilson and Mr. William Boyd were duly admitted 

 Members. 



" The Meetings for the summer of 1854 were arranged to be 

 as follows : — May, the 3rd Wednesday, Cornhill ; June, the 3rd 

 Wednesday, Bamburgh ; July, the 3rd Wednesday, Blue-bellj 

 Vaulinsburn ; August, the 3rd Wednesday, Powburn ; Septem- 

 ber, the 2nd Wednesday, Bamburgh. 



" The Secretary exhibited specimens, beautifully preserved, of 

 several Alg^ which had been collected in Berwick Bay by Mrs. 

 Alfred Gatty, and which were new and interesting additions to 

 our flora. For this communication the vote of thanks of the 

 Club was ordered to be given to Mrs. Gatty. Then, a notice of 

 the hosts of Aphides which have lately appeared in the district, 

 was read, from Mr. Selby ; who also sent a still more interesting 

 communication descriptive of our Wasps. Dr. Johnston next 

 exhibited a skull of the Chillingbam Bull ; and a series of the 

 Lepades, found in Berwick Bay, with the view of explaining the 

 discoveries of Mr. Darwin relative to their sexes and g'eneration. 

 Mr. Tate exhibited some specimens of scales of fossil fish which 

 he had just procured near Cockbumspath ; and some beautiful 

 specimens of fossil ferns from an adjacent locality.'' 



Cornhill, May 17th. — "The Club resumed its meetings, and 

 had a favourable day to begin upon. It breakfasted with the 

 Rev. S. A. Fyler, who became the guide to those Members who 

 spent the hours between breakfast and dinner in a walk of 

 research. We were conducted first to the * Bathing-well planta- 

 tion,' flushed with a show of flowers that no horticultural society 

 could emulate. A large extent of this plantation was covered 

 with a Myosotis — either palustris or sylvatica — in large patches 



