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of Thalmessingen, where the water was hard and contained many- 

 earthy ingredients, the soil very damp, and the food of the in- 

 habitants mostly meal, salted and smoked beef, and much pork, 

 the disease of worms was very common, Tcenia solium and 

 Ascaris lumbricoides being particularly abundant ; but a league 

 beyond this district, where these conditions were absent, the 

 disease is very rare*. Communications were read from Dr. 

 Wilson, in which evidence was given, that full-grown herring 

 had been found in the stomach of Norway salmon. The Presi- 

 dent read a short notice of Celtic sepulchral remains in the 

 neighbourhood of Wooler. 



Mr. Stevenson favoured the Meeting with an account of some 

 interesting meteorological observations he had made in Berwick- 

 shire. The connexion between the periodic maxima and minima 

 of the solar spots has been known for some time ; but Mr. Ste- 

 venson has succeeded in proving that the auroral displays also 

 have their maxima and minima corresponding with those of the 

 solar spots — a conclusion he was led to expect from the well- 

 established connexion between magnetic disturbances and the 

 appearance of the aurora. This result, and the records proving 

 it, were communicated to Professor Faraday, who induced the 

 author to publish them in the Philosophical Magazine. 



Mr. Jerdan exhibited some specimens of white clover, Trifo- 

 lium repens, with greatly elongated peduncles and luxuriant caly- 

 cine leaves, found at Reston Station ; and it may here be noticed; 

 that Mr. Selby took, at Twizell, in the early part of August, a 

 beautiful specimen of Hipparchus papilionarius, a moth rare in 

 the district. 



In the Transactions of our Club are several sketches of scenery, 

 some notices of legends, pastimes, customs, and ruins, belonging 

 to the olden time, and many notes and descriptions of plants and 

 animals. At a fitting time, Dr. Johnston, the Founder and 

 Father of the Club, has, in one department, combined these 

 scattered materials, and, along with his more extended and varied 

 observations, presented them to the world in a volume of great 

 value and interest, — f The Natural History of the Eastern Bor- 

 ders/ This publication may be regarded as an important part 

 of our own Proceedings, for the author professedly records the 

 discoveries of the Club, describes the Meetings, and the scenes 



* Siebold on Helminthology, in the Ray Society's Reports, 1845. 



