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a visitor, well kuowu to the members by Lis valuable contributions to 

 our Transactions. 



Aiter tlie ordinary business bad been transacted, and tke stations 

 fixed for the ensuing year, several communications were read. 



The Eev. J. Baird sent a notice that a specimen of the Bohemian 

 waxwing had been taken at Yetholm in the beginning of December. 



The Rev. E. Cowe (of AMiitsome) presented the Club with a descrip- 

 tion of the various modes of taking white-fish, &c. on the coast of 

 Berwickshire, for wliich the Secretary was directed to write him a 

 letter of thanks in the name of the Club. 



Mr Maclaurin gave in a list of bivalve shells taken at Coldingham, 

 new to Berwickshire.'^' This communication, therefore, is supplement- 

 ary to the Catalogue given at p. 77 of the Transactions. 



Mr Selby read a paper descriptive of a hybrid between the black- 

 cock and hen pheasant. The bird was a male, and exhibited in a very 

 striking manner the peculiarities of both jiarents. A female, probably 

 belonging to the same brood, was killed the jeav before, and is pre- 

 served in the Newcastle Museum. 



Mr Eiddell read a notice of the scenes enacted in the neighbourhood 

 of Yevering when Christianity was first introduced into that part of the 

 country, under Edwin, King of Northumbria ; and another on the 

 prices and consumption offish in England previous to the Reformation. 

 The materials were chiefly those furnished by the publications of the 

 Surtees Society, especially the excellent index annexed by Mr Eaine 

 to the volume containing the yearly accounts of Finchale Priory. 

 Many sorts of fish were then used as food which no one would now 

 think of eating. 



Dr Johnston laid before the Club the fii'st part of a descriptive 

 catalogue of the Berwickshire Grasteropodous Mollusca. 



The first meeting of the present year, held at Cornhill on the 6th 

 May, I was prevented from attending. The members present were, 

 Mr Selby, Dr Johnston, Dr Clarke, Dr F. Douglas, Eev. Mr Cunning- 

 ham, Eev. John Baird ; Mr J. Langhorne, Dr Wilson, and Mr Melrose, 

 attended as visitors. 



After breakfast, the party proceeded to the old tower and village of 

 Wark, where parts of that ancient border fortress are still standing. 

 On leaving Wark, the members directed their wallc for nearly a mile 

 along the river side towards Carham, and met with a few good plants, 



* Terehratula psittacea. — A dead specimen, got ou the lines of the Coldingham 

 fishermen. 



Pectunculus pilosus. — Not uncommon; but only dead specimens have occiuTcd, 



Donax ? — Coldingham. This is probably a new species. 



Cryptodon flexuosus. — Exceedingly rare. 

 Lucina radula. — Common. 



