THIRD FIELD MEETING. 15 
On the southern side of Derwent are two “ hopes,” or short vales, 
Herdsel-hope and Hys-hope. Their names are now elegantly di- 
versified into Horsop and Hysop. Why not at once, Her shop 
and His shop? As herdsel isin Old English a sheep-fold, the 
real name of the former little vale is of a pleasing pastoral cha- 
racter ; that of the latter is not so easy to explain. 
THIRD FIELD MEETING, 
Tth August, 1846. 
The Club was to have assembled to breakfast at Bardon Mill, 
and to dinner at Haltwhistle, but, owing to the extreme wetness 
of the weather, the meeting was thin, and some of those who met 
at breakfast turned back before reaching Haltwhistle. 
On account of the state of the weather, but little could be seen 
of a district highly interesting for its peculiar geological features, 
for its antiquities, and for the numerous interesting plants which 
its lochs, its rocky hill-sides, and its marshes produce. Its 
zoology does not appear to have been much investigated, but 
there seems little doubt that, especially in conchology and en- 
tomology, a careful examination would repay the naturalist. 
The only rare plant gathered was Ranunculus Lingua, which 
the Rev. Mr. Cundill found in a small lake near Walltown. 
The papers laid before the meeting were— 
“Notices of some new species of Mollusca, &c., found at Ar- 
drossan and in the Isle of Arran, in May and June last,” by Mr. 
Joshua Alder. 
“A list of new habitats of various of the rarer plants of North- 
umberland and Durham,” by Mr. John Storey. These new 
habitats will duly appear in the catalogue of plants now in 
course of preparation. 
The President exhibited viviparous heads of the Crested Dogs- 
tail Grass (Cynosurus cristatus ). 
A communication, through Mr. Hardy, was read from Dr. 
