2 Anniversary Address. 



trict, to natural history itself, and to the ancient history of 

 our country. Our success during the last year has not been 

 less than that in any of its predecessors. We have received 

 a large accession of new members ; and were I to express any 

 suggestion for our future guidance, it would be, that we should 

 well consider the judiciousness of unlimitedly increasing our 

 numbers. It seems to me to be more consonant with the 

 original intention, and more conducive to the future inter- 

 ests of the club, that it should consist rather of a few ardent 

 lovers and keen observers of nature, than of a mixed multi- 

 tude having no special object in view, and no particular pur- 

 suit to follow at our field meetings. 



Our meetings during the year have, with one exception, 

 been numerously attended, and the localities explored have 

 been of great interest. 



The last anniversary meeting took place at Berwick on the 

 25th September, 1862, when there were present : — Messrs 

 D. Milne Home, Robert Home, Jas. Patterson, Robt. Doug- 

 las, Geo. Tate, Stephen Sanderson, John Tait, James Tait, 

 Captain McLaren, Revds. F. R. Simpson, Peter Mearns, E. 

 A. Wilkinson, Drs. Brown and Allan ; and as visitors. Dr. 

 Clarke and Mr Wm. Darnell. 



The day being inclement no regular out-door exploration 

 was attempted ; and the time was spent chiefly in the exam- 

 ination of accounts, which were passed, in the arrangement of 

 business, in listening to the president's address and other 

 papers, and in discussing the questions raised by these com- 

 munications. The address of the president was listened to 

 with interest ; and afterwards John Turnbull, Esq., of Ab- 

 bey St. Bathans, was elected president for the ensuing year. 



A paper was read from Mr Cunningham, on Terraces 

 on the Kale Water ; and another, by the Rev. P. Mearns, on 

 a Gravel ridge at Wark. 



It was resolved, that Sir Wm. Jardine, Bart., be requested 

 to represent the club at the meeting of the British Associa- 

 tion at Cambridge, to press the claims of Newcastle as the 

 place of meeting for next year. 



