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more general interest in them, and because of deficiencies in the collections 

 that require to be filled. We learn from the paper that there are 33 or 34 

 species of mammals indigenous to Perthshire. The article will appear in the 

 next part of the Proceedings of the Society in extenso* 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE BERWICKSHIRE NATURALISTS' CLUB 

 — This old and well-known Society has recently published its volume for the 

 year 1883-84 which, as usual, forms a good octavo volume, being Vol. X_ 

 pt. II., pp. 225-424, with 14 plates. As in past years the subjects embrace 



wide range, including several articles on archfeological topics, on meteorology, 

 &c, in addition to those that come more naturally under review in this maga- 

 zine. We may at once state that the quality of the articles is not inferior to 

 those in the earlier volumes of the series, and continue to merit for the Club 

 the high estimation in which it is held. 



We now pass to a brief notice of the contents. 



Mr. Hardy gives the usual excellent report of the meetings, but to this we 

 shall afterwards return. 



The [articles fall into several groups. Obituary notices are given of four 

 members of the Club that have died within the year, these being — Rev. John 

 Orr, of Berwick ; Robert Crossman, of Cheswick and Holy Island ; Rev. 

 John W. Dunn, of Workworth ; and Dr. James Robson Scott, of Ashtrees. 

 Professor Duns contributes an obituary notice of William Stevenson (died at 

 Paisley in 1882), for many years an earnest student of the meteorology and of 

 the geology of the South of Scotland. Dr. H. S. Anderson follows with a 

 brief sketch of the career of the renowned traveller, Mungo Park. 



Mr. Hardy shows the same energy and research in archaeology that have 

 already made him so well-known in biology, and writes (1) on an Urn near 

 Luffhess, (with 1 plate) ; (2) Ednam Hospital ; 3, On a Spoon at Mousin 

 and Notice of Mousin; 4, On the Cross at Crosshall ; 5, On a Flint 

 Scraper from Gullane Links ; and, 6, Notes on Yarrow; besides a paper, 

 along with Miss S. Dand, on Incised Rocks at Morwick (with 4 plates of 

 figures). The other articles on Archaeology are Black Dyke and British 

 Camps, by James Tait ; Flint Implements in Ccquetdale (2 plates), and 

 Dagger found at Rothbury, by*D. D. Dixon ; Names of the Fame 

 Islands, &c, by Mr. R. Carr-Ellison ; and Notes on British and other 

 Coins (1 plate), by Miss Russell. 



Meteorology may be said to be represented by Hailstorm near Jedburgh, 

 by J. Scott-Dudgeon ; Injury to Firs by a Snowstorm, by M. T. Culley ; 

 Effects of Storm of 14th October,: 1881, on Plantations; and Meteoro- 

 logical Notices. 



Lower Carboniferous Entomostraca (1 plate), by T. R. Jones, F.R.S., 

 is the only strictly Geological paper. In it several new forms are described. 



Zoology is represented by papers on Birds — viz., Herons and Border 

 Heronies, and Titlark Feeding Young Cuckoo, by James Smail ; Cygnus 

 Bewickii (from Shaws), with Notes on Anatomical Characteristics 

 1 plate), by Dr. T. Anderson ; and Ornithological Notes, by George 

 Bolam, containing much that will interest ornithologists 



Botany figures with only three papers. These are Carex divisa in Holy 

 Island, by the Rev/ J. Farquharson ; Fungi from Roxburgh, by Rev. D. 



