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The next meeting of the Club which we have to notice was held in 

 the month of December last, at Berwick-upon-Tweed, — a season of the 

 year which suits not distant members, and when, consequently, our 

 meetings must generally be expected to be thinly attended. Yet, was 

 the meeting far from being destitute of scientific interest. In particular, 

 we notice a very pleasing paper by Dr Johnston, giving a list of the 

 more rare and valuable plants observed at the previous meeting at 

 Cold.stream, in which, among many others enumerated, we notice, as 

 perhaps the most interesting, the Agaricus applicaUi.8 of Withering ; a 

 plant not mentioned by Dr Greville in his Flora Edinensis, and which, 

 therefore, may be considered as a fi-esh addition to the Scottish Cr}^:)to- 

 gamic Flora. In the minutes of the same meeting, we find recorded 

 the discovery of the Mentha sylvcHtris, by Mr Dunlop, at Blanerne, on 

 the AVhittadder ; while our zealous botanical contributor, Mr Brown, 

 among other good plants, gives us the CaUcium sphcerocephalum, Par- 

 melia caper atus, Vaccmium Oxy coccus or Cranberry, and Endocarpon 

 Weheri, forming altogether a valuable contribution to the botany of 

 Berwickshire. At the same meeting, Dr Johnston communicated a 

 hst of the Echinodermata of Berwickshire, a very curious and inter- 

 esting class of Marine Animals, the species of which now existing on 

 the Britsh coast appear to be few in number, though, in former times, 

 they seem to have been more abundant and prolific. Belonging to the 

 third family of this order of animals, Dr Johnston notices in particular 

 one animal, of which he has made a new genus under the name of 

 Fleminia muricata, in honour of the Eev. Dr Fleming, who has done so 

 much to remove the obscurity under which the species lay previously 

 to the j)ublication of his History of British Animals. The individual 

 thus added to our marine animals has been presented, by its discoverer, 

 to the British Museum, where it is now deposited. A notice of an 

 Albino family by Mr Embleton, and a continuation of his Meteorologi- 

 cal Table for the preceding three months, concluded the business of 

 this meeting. 



The third meeting of the Club was held at Cockburnspath, on the 

 3d Wednesday of April 1833, — a season when the naturalist begins 

 once more to look aroimd him with new hope and interest, and when 

 nature, after the gloom and the repose of winter, begins once more to 

 array herself in her robes of cheerfulness and beauty. The peculiarly 

 backward state of the season, however, prevented the Club from making 

 any very remarkable additions to the natural history of the county, and 

 tended not a little to damp the expectations and the hopes which, both 

 the return of spring and the natural beauty of the scenery of the 

 neighbourhood had excited. Still, however, notwithstanding the heavy 

 showers, and the unusual coldness of the wind, the meeting was neither 

 without enjoyment nor interest. Dunglass Dean at aU events, was 

 visited, and miserable indeed must be the day which will render it un- 

 worthy of tmbounded and unmingled admiration. Occurring in this 



