66 MR embleton's abdbess. 



period since Mr Baird commenced their investigation, lie has deter- 

 mined no fewer than eighteen species ; and as the season was not the 

 most propitiovis for them, we may look forward to the discovery of 

 many not yet known to the naturalist ; and there is no one, I am sure, 

 more capable of doing justice to the subject than he who has under- 

 taken it. ^dJy, A description, by the Eev. A. Baird, accompanied by 

 many specimens, of those curious and fantastically formed productions, 

 known by the name of " fairy stones," from the Fairy Grlen, near 

 Melrose, so beautifully described by Sir Walter Scott in the Monastery. 

 Ath, Notices of the occurrence of several rare and interesting species in 

 Ornithology, Ichthyology, and Entomology, by the Secretary ; ' also a 

 list of the Bivalve Mollusca found on the coast of Berwickshire, illus- 

 trated by specimens, and remarks on the diversities in their organization 

 and habits, bth, Additions to the previous list of the Malacostraca of 

 Berwickshire and North Durham, which I laid before you at the 

 previous meeting. On that day two more were added to those I had 

 already determined ; one, the beautiful Pinnotheres Cranchii., first found 

 on the Devonshire coast by Dr Leach, was brought by the Reverend 

 Mr Turnbull from Eyemouth ; the other at the time was supposed to 

 be a species new to the Fauna of Great Britain, and on referring it to 

 Mr J. E. Grrey of the British Museum, that opinion was confirmed. It 

 is proposed to give to this species the name of Galathcaa nexa, as form- 

 ing a beautiful link between the Galathcea sqtiamifera and G. spinigera 

 of Dr Leach. Three specimens have only as yet been obtained, two in 

 Berwick Bay, and the other near Embleton. 



The next meeting at Allanton, a district through which flow the 

 streams of the Blackadder and Whiteadder, so well known to the 

 lovers of that recreation which honest Isaac Walton describes as "the 

 most calm, quiet, and innocent of all," was one of the best attended ; 



1 Of these notices we may jjarticularize the following ; — 



"1. Phalaropus lohatus, Grey Phalaropc. Shot in the Tweed at Berwick, by Mr 

 Good, about the middle of November 1834. 



"2. Botaurus stellaris, Common Bittern. A fine specimen was shot at Redhcugh, 

 parish of Cockburnspath, by Mr Johnston, on December 6, 1834. Mr Selby has a 

 specimen in his collection, which was shot near Berwick. 



" 3. Liparis Montagui, Flem. Brit. Anlm. p. 190. Occurs occasionally on the coals 

 of Berwickshire, adhering to rocks and stones at low water-mark. It has not been 

 previously noticed as a Scottish species, and is considered rare even in the south of 

 England. Among our specimens there was one marked with dark stripes, arranged 

 in a very peculiar fashion. • 



" 4. Locusta migratoria. Locust. I have a specimen taken at Beal, North Durham, 

 by Mr W. WUloljy, about the middle of August 1834 ; and another taken at 

 Scremerston on the 17th of September. A third was capbured at Chirnside, where, 

 as Mr Henderson told me, at least one other individual was seen about the same 

 time. 



" 5. Oiceoptoma dispar. Of this rare insect I took a specimen on the heights near 

 SmaUholm Tower, in our excursion there in July 1834. 



" 6. Chrysomela lamina. I have a specimen which was taken on the Castle-hills at 

 Berwick. 



" 7. Vanessa lo, Peacock Butterfly. Taken near Eedheugh and the Pease Bridge, 

 by Mr Ealph Johnston. 



"8. Melitsea Selene. Captured near Duns e." 



