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Address to the Members of the Berwickshire Naturalists'' Club, delivered at 

 the Anniversary Meeting, held at Ford, \9th September, 1838. By Dr 

 Claeke, President. 



Gentlemen, 



In the following summary of our transactions, I regret to say that 

 our meetings have not been so fertile in new or interesting results as 

 in former years, but they have continued to be, as heretofore, scones 

 of cheerful and rational enjoyment, animated by the same genial spirit 

 — marked by the same friendly interchange of thought and opinion, 

 and never, even for a moment, clouded by the shadow of angry or 

 intemperate discussion. But though the Club, as an associated body, 

 has fallen short of the reputation of other years, I rejoice to say, that 

 her members individually have not slackened their efforts in the cause 

 of Science. I mention, with especial pleasure, the description of the 

 Berwick and North Durham Coalfield, given by Mr Milne at the meet- 

 ing of the British Association, which Dr Buckland noticed in a strain 

 of high panegjTic ; — an elaborate account of the Salmonidce by Sir. W. 

 Jardine, pervaded by a spirit of philosophic and dispassionate inquiry ; 

 and a systematic work on British Zooph}i;es by Dr Johnston, whose 

 name is a sufficient -^'arrant for fidelity of description and accuracy 

 of induction, and which the scientific world will hail as filling up a 

 blank in the Natural History of Britain. 



The last Anniversary was held at Norham. The members, of whom 

 there was a strong muster, after breakfasting with the Eev. Dr Grilly, 

 proceeded to investigate the neighbourhood. One party examined 

 the geological structure of the district, as disclosed by the banks of 

 the Tweed, an account of which Mr Milne has forwarded to the Club. 

 Drs Johnston and Douglas followed the windings of the river as far as 

 Milne Graden, and obtained the following plants : — Asplenium Euta- 

 Muraria, an addition to the cryptogamic Flora of Berwickshire ; 

 Asplenium marinum, on rocks near Lady-kirk, three miles above tide- 

 mark, and above ten from the sea ; Cistopteris fragilis, from Lady's 

 Bridge, Milne Graden ; Galium boreale, from the Scarth Crags ; 

 Thalictrum majus ; Euonj-mus europEeus ; Lysimachia nummularia ; 

 Lactuca virosa ; Viola hirta, &c., on the rocky and woody banks of the 

 Tweed. 



The Christmas Meeting took place as usual at Berwick, and was well 

 attended. Mr Henderson of Chirnside sent specimens of Melalontha 

 vulgaris, and Ehagium bifasciatum, taken in his neighbourhood. Mr 

 Selby mentioned that the dipterous fly, taken at Houndwood last May, 

 was Tachina ursina. Dr Douglas exhibited specimens of Trochilium 

 crabronif orme, in its different stages of caterpillar, chrysalis, and moth, 

 together with a specimen of Salix caprtca, perforated by the caterpillar, 

 from the Hirsel. 



