16 FOURTH FIELD MEETING. 
Johnston, of Berwick upon Tweed, proposing that a joint meet- 
ing of the Berwickshire and Tyneside Naturalists’ Field Clubs 
should take place at Alnwick, as soon as the Newcastle and Ber- 
wick Railway shall be opened, “for mutual encouragement and 
the promotion of friendly feelings.” 
THE PRESIDENTS NOTE ON THE THIRD FIELD MEETING. 
On this, the only occasion when the Club has been interrupted 
by bad weather, I happened to be absent on a visit to the banks 
of the Breamish. The day was there overcast and rather sultry, 
but no rain fell. Distant rolling peals of thunder were heard all 
day, beginning on the south-west and ending as if the storm had 
come round into Roxburgshire, behind Cheviot, on our north- 
western side. 
FOURTH FIELD MEETING, 
Friday, \1th Sept., 1846. 
The Club assembled in the first instance at the house of Mr. 
Abbs, of Cleadon, where they were shown through the interesting 
grounds belonging to that gentleman’s residence, by the Rev. 
G. C. Abbs. They then proceeded to Whitburn, to: breakfast. 
After which the party separated, some proceeding to seek for 
shells, &c.—others for insects or plants, as might be their parti- 
cular pursuit. The principal circumstances which occurred, and 
which might be considered of more than common interest, were, 
1st, that the party which kept on the banks saw a locust fly past 
them, which, however, they did not succeed in taking. This in- 
sect appears in this country at considerable intervals ; it is about 
twenty years since any were seen in this district ; at least if they 
have been seen, there is no record to that effect. This year, 
however, they have been seen and captured in considerable num- 
bers, especially in the district in which the one alluded to above 
was observed. The second circumstance worthy of particular 
notice was, that some of the party who had gone to seek for sea- 
