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We found nothing in this bog we had not seen in the other ; 

 and so we returned to the Bathing-well plantation to renew and 

 refreshen the enjoyment we had there in the morning. The 

 extent and brilliancy of the show was, indeed, surpassing fine. 



"At dinner we mustered a party of thirteen, viz. Dr. Johnston, 

 Rev. J. Baird, Captain Carpenter, Dr. Clarke, Rev. Dr. Gilly, 

 Mr. Home, Rev. S. A. Fyler, Mr. Tate, Rev. George Carpenter, 

 Rev. Mr. Rigge, and Mr. Boyd, — with William Majoribanks, 

 Esq., and Dr. George Douglas as visitors. These gentlemen 

 were duly nominated as candidates for the membership. 



" After dinner there was a good deal done in the talking-way, 

 and much of it was very amusing. It was varied with some 

 conversation more to the purpose of the meeting by Mr. Tate, 

 who gave us an account of some fossil fish he had recently dis- 

 covered at Lamberton, near Berwick ; and he also exhibited the 

 specimens he had collected this day on a walk down the Tweed- 

 side as far as the Till. One of these was a specimen of Stigma- 

 ria ficoides, with the rootlets attached. Dr. Johnston gave an 

 account of a little worm that bores into the most compact bivalve 

 shells on our coast, and showed a figure of it, under the belief 

 that it was a nondescript ; but he has since ascertained that the 

 worm had been described by Orsted, under the name of Dode- 

 caceria concharum." 



Bamborough, June 21 . — " This Meeting was a very success- 

 ful one. The Members who attended were Dr. Johnston, Mr. 

 Embleton, Mr. Selby, Rev. J. D. Clark, Mr. Boyd, Rev. George 

 Walker, Mr. Tate, Rev. S. A. Fyler, Rev. W. Darnell, and the 

 Rev. L. S. Orde. After breakfast the party proceeded to 'Monk's 

 house/ where they took boat, and sailed on a voyage of disco- 

 very to the Feme Islands. The sail was pleasant, and effected 

 without any disagreeable incident; and every individual was 

 gratified with the scene and the various objects which occurred. 

 Circumstances prevent me giving a detail of what was noticed : 

 my own specimens lie yet unexamined. I believe, however, that 

 there was nothing got but what had been previously recorded as 

 being found on these isles. We had the gratification of seeing 

 the father of Grace Darling, and several members of his family; 

 and on the landward isle we viewed with reverence the small and 

 exquisitely beautiful chapel built by the liberality and taste of 



