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by the more pleasant and picturesque banks of the Till to Twi- 

 zell Castle ; whence the party returned to Cornhill by following 

 the public road. The plants observed during the walk, though 

 not worthy of mention from their rarity, were many of them 

 lovely to look upon, and such as usually greet us at every May 

 meeting. Ballota nigra was noticed in the churchyard at Corn- 

 hill; and on the margin of the Tweed opposite Lennel, Stellaria 

 nemorum in two or three large patches. The banks of the Till, 

 between the Chapel and Tillmouth Bridge, were enlivened with 

 sloes and geans ; and a tree of the bullace plum, in the same 

 locality, furnished some good specimens for the herbarium. 



Mr. Hepburn has kindly furnished his notes of the birds and 

 insects worthy of notice. The Tree Pipit (Anthus arboreus) and 

 the Willow Wren {Sylvia trochilus) were widely distributed over 

 the Cornhill district ; and with the exception of a pair of Sand- 

 pipers (Totanus hypoleucos), at the mouth of the Till, these were 

 the only summer birds of passage observed. We collected the 

 following insects : — Helobia nivalis, Stomis pumicatus, Phadon 

 marginella, P. tumidula, Philonthus decorus, Tachinus rufipes, 

 Othius fulvipennis, Haltica nemorum, and Andrena Trimmer ana $ . 

 The Coleoptera were chiefly obtained by the banks of the Till ; 

 and the Sandbees as they were sleepily basking by their burrows 

 on the banks of the Tweed. — At this meeting Mr. Logan was 

 admitted a Member. 



On the 19th of June the Club assembled at Reston, antici- 

 pating with pleasure a visit to the noble cliffs of St. Abb's Head, 

 and in this they were not disappointed. The day proved most 

 propitious, and after breakfast the larger portion of the mem- 

 bers present started for the coast. From arriving too late, the 

 Secretary was unable to join in this ramble, but with Dr. Clarke 

 sauntered up the Eye as far as Houndswood; and near Covey- 

 heugh Mill, hard by the railroad, he discovered Rosa Sabini, for 

 the first time noticed in Berwickshire ; there were several bushes 

 of it growing intermixed with Rosa spinosissima. 



The rest of the party followed the high road as far as the vil- 

 lage of Coldingham, after which the walk was over more inter- 

 esting ground. The grand and broken cliffs which guard this 

 part of the coast were soon reached, and formed a striking con- 

 trast to the unruffled surface of the ocean, which, on this occa- 

 sion, had laid aside all its terrors and assumed the form of perfect 



