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read the address of the President, who was prevented from attending 

 by absence from home. On the nomination of Mr Selby, Dr F. 

 Douglas was elected President for the ensuing j-ear. A notice of the 

 occiiiTence of the HalicJucrus gryphus on the coast, by Dr Douglas, was 

 next read, on which Mr Selby was requested to report at the next 

 meeting. Dr Johnston Avas appointed Secretary for the year. 



At the AVinter Meeting at Berwick, held on December 16, the 

 following members attended : Dr Douglas, president ; Dr Johnston, 

 secretary ; Eev. Thos. Eiddell, Mr Melrose, Dr Clarke, Mr Selby, Mr 

 Good, Eev. J. Turnbull, and Mr Laughorne. Mr Tancred, Mr Wm. 

 Tancred, and Mr "VVilkie of Fouldeau, attended as visitors. The mem- 

 bers of the Club having pai'taken of Dr Johnston's hospitality at 

 breakfast, the minutes of the last meeting were read and approved of. 

 Mr Selby then reported that the seal described by Dr Douglas, in a 

 communication read to the Club in September last, was, as Dr Douglas 

 supposed, the Halichcerus gryphus^ and that he had since procured three 

 specimens of the heads of the same species from the Fame Island, 

 where Mr Selby now believes the Phoca barhata, for which the Hali- 

 cheerus had been mistaken, is not to be found. 



On the motion of Mr Selby, the Eev. J. D. Clarke, and on the 

 motion of Mr Eiddell, Mr David M'Beath, were admitted members of 

 the Club. It was next agreed that the Club should meet in 1841, at 

 the following places in succession, Ayton, AVooler, Bank House, and 

 Kelso. 



Mr Selby presented the Club with a list of the dipterous insects in 

 the collection of Mr Hardy, made in the neighbourhood of the Pease- 

 bridge, and with a notice of Larus mimitus, killed at Holy Island. Mr 

 Selby subsequently read an elaborate report on the ornithology of Ber- 

 wickshire, which was ordered to be printed. Dr Johnston gave in a 

 few ornithological notices of the occurrence of some rare birds in the 

 neighbourhood of Berwick. 



The Club then took their walk along the sea-banks as far as the 

 Needle-Eye ; but nothing to attract their special attention occurred, 

 beyond what arose out of the beauty and picturesqueness of the sea, 

 and many points in the rocky shore. 



After dinner, the party again assembled at Dr Johnston's, who ex- 

 hibited his collection of British Sponges, and gave a short explanation 

 of the views of Grant, relating to their physiology and functions, and 

 of whose con'ectness and accui-acy in observation he has fiilly satisfied 

 himself. 



The Spring Meeting of the Club was held at Ayton on the 5th of 

 May, and was attended by the following members : The President, the 



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