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find it invaluable, and in the absence of a history of British Tineina, which 

 we trust will soon be published, the only work on the subject they can 

 safely have recourse to. 



Proceedings of Berwickshire Naturalists' Club. Vol. III. Parts 1, 

 2, 3, 4. 8vo. (Printed for the Members.) 



In these few pages we have a pleasing record of the proceedings of a 

 small knot of Berwickshire Naturalists, during the years 1850-51-52-53 ; 

 and as we read the able addresses, with one of which (delivered by the 

 outgoing President) each number opens, we were much struck by the 

 benefit that would accrue to science were such clubs more numerous. That 

 whose proceedings are recorded in these pages, scarcely numbers one 

 hundred members ; but then they are men of the right stamp, and the 

 addresses and proceedings which follow bear ample evidence of how judi- 

 ciously their meetings have been conducted. The Club was founded, some 

 one and twenty years since, by its present able and indefatigable secretary, 

 Dr. George Johnston ; and, to use the language of the address, delivered at 

 its last anniversary meeting, " starting into life under the fostering 

 charge of experienced and distinguished naturalists, it had scarcely an 

 infancy; it first efforts were manly, and even its first contributions to 

 Natural History took their place among the original authorities in scientific 

 literature." We are glad to be able to testify that the promise of its earlier 

 years have been steadily fulfilled, and that, unlike similar societies, it shows 

 no symptoms of premature decay, but that its list of members contains 

 many names, which are a guarantee for the ability and zeal which will 

 characterize its future operations. It must be, indeed, most gratifying to 

 its founder to have witnessed so worthy a scion attain its majority ; and, 

 we trust, he may be long spared to enjoy the beauties of nature himself, 

 and to lead others to take an interest in those which surround them. The 

 addresses contained in the numbers before us recapitulate, with a pleasing 

 terseness, the results of the several field meetings of the Club during the 

 previous year. The proceedings which follow are not exclusively devoted 

 to the pursuits of the naturalist, but contain also some papers of interest 

 to the local antiquary. Among the Natural History papers, we would 

 wish to draw attention to a paper of Dr. William Baird, on Entozoa, with 

 a list of those known to occur within the bounds of the Club, and also to 

 a paper on the Acarides of Berwickshire, by Dr. G. Johnston, with specific 

 characters, both of which will amply repay a perusal. 



