18 THE LOCAL FIELD-CLtJBS OF GREAT BRITAIN, 



the notice of each meeting issued by the Secretaries, a programme is 

 given to guide the proceedings of the day. At 9 a.m. the members 

 assemble at breakfast in an inn, after which the explorations commence, 

 and are continued till 4 p.m., when the members reassemble at dinner; 

 the observations made are then reported and discussed, and papers are 

 read. These gatherings are well attended. At the last meeting in Sep- 

 teraber,the accounts are audited, new members are elected, thePresident's 

 address is read, and a President for the ensuing year chosen. The yearly 

 subscription is 6s., and new members pay an entrance fee of 10s. ; the 

 proceeds are applied to pay expenses attending the meetings, to print- 

 ing and lithography for the yearly proceedings, and sometimes to aid 

 in tlie exploration of antiquities. Two copies of the yearly printed 

 proceedings are given to each member; none are sold, but they are 

 freely distributed among public societies and others interested in such 

 productions. Five volumes of ' Proceedings' have been printed ; and 

 the first part of vol. vi, is nearly completed. All subjects in local 

 natural history, including geology, have been more or less treated of in 

 these volumes ; and in the later numbers there are several important 

 papers on local archaeology. 



Much has been accomplished in local botany by the Club. A suc- 

 cession of botanists has been reared under its auspices ; and there 

 have been recorded in its proceedings, year after year, by Mr. Embleton 

 and other members, plants new to the district, and new localities for 

 the rarer plants ; special lists have been given — of the botany of the 

 Paroe Islands and of the Cheviots, by Dr. Geo. R. Tate, F.L.S. ; the 

 Eoxburgli Pungi, by Mr. A. Jerdon ; the Eastern Border Mosses and 

 Lichens, by Mr. James Hardy; and in the proceedings for 1869, there 

 will appear, a list of the plants around Melrose, by Mr. Stewart, with 

 an account of several foreign genera and species found on the banks 

 of the Gala and Tweed, and introduced by the foreign wool used 

 in the manufactories on the Gala water. Other moi'C important pro- 

 ductions, though not appearing in the proceedings of the Club, are 

 the work of its members, and are results of the action and influence of 

 the Club ; among these are the ' Botany of the Eastern Borders,' by 

 Dr. G.Johnston; with the 'Fossil Botany,' by George Tate, Esq., 

 P.G.S. ; the ' Flora of North Northumberland,' contributed to the Flora 

 of Northumberland and Durham, and the ' Flora of the District around 

 Alnwick,' by Dr. G. R. Tate, F.L.S., with the Muscology of the same 



