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ilessrs James J5aibour. Jaiiius Davidson, James C. R. Macdonald. 

 liobert Murray, Joliii Xeilson, (Jeorge 11. llobb, James M. Koss, 

 James S. Tliomsou, and James AVatt. 



The Secretary then read a very instructive piper liy i)r ]J. 

 Ji. Tayliir of Liverpool, entitled " Travelling- in the Air." 



Old Friars' Carse. 

 The followi'jg is the paper read by Mr Andson, describing 

 '• Old Friars' Carse " : — As for as I can gather, Friars' Carse was 

 oi'iginally the property of Melrose Abbey, and seerns to have been 

 the site of a monk's cell — whence, in all probability, the name. At 

 a later period it belonged to a branch of the Kirkpatricks of Close- 

 burn, from whom it passed to the Maxwells of Tinwald. Then it 

 came into the hands of the Riddells of Glenriddle, who Avere the 

 possessors in the time of Grose, the antiquarian, and Robert Eurns. 

 The pen-and-ink sketch of the old house, which I now produce, is 

 dated 1773, and is identical with that figured in Grose's "Anti- 

 (juities of Scotland." It is known that Grose visited .Scotland on 

 his antiquarian tour in 1789, and that in the course of it ho paid a 

 visit to Friars' Carse, where he was the guest of Captain Riddell, 

 and it must have been at that time that he met with the poet, 

 who hud entered on tlie farm of Ellisland in the previous year. 



