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at Cornhill, Mr Fyler showed the cover of a cist lately found 

 not far from this spot, there being in the centre of the upper 

 side of the stone a hemispherical hollow evidently artificial, 

 and about an inch in diameter. 



The following plants among others are reported to have 

 been found at Learmouth bog : — Vaccinum Oxycoccos, Py- 

 rola rotundifolia, Narthecium ossifragum, Hippuris vulgaris, 

 Cladium Mariscus, Asp>idium Thelypteris, Ranunculus Lin- 

 gua; in Campfield bog, Aspidium spinosum ;* and at Wark 

 Saponaria officinalis was gathered on the roadside, but not 

 being in flower it could not be determined whether it was 

 the double variety often seen in cottage gardens. 



Mr Lamb reported the capture of Epione vespartaria, of 

 which he got two specimens in Learmouth bog, which is a 

 new locality, and the only one in this district. 



After dinner a discussion took place on the process of form- 

 ation of Kaims, in which the E-ev. Mr Walker of Greenlaw, 

 Mr Stevenson, and Mr Mearns took part. The conditions 

 necessary to such a deposit must be so complicated, and may 

 be so temporary, that it must be difficult now to discover and 

 describe them. 



A rainy morning ushered in the 2Tth of August, the day 

 of the Longhoughton meeting, and with but few and short 

 intervals the rain continued to fall during the day. The 

 meeting in consequence was a small one, there having assem- 

 bled at breakfast only Mr Turnbull the president, E-ev. Geo. 

 Eooke, Mr Brack Boyd, Mr C. P. Bosanquet, Mr Geo. Tate, 

 secretary, Mr Thos. Tate, and Mr Robert Dunn, Vice-Presi- 

 dent of the Ethnological Society of London. They were 

 afterwards joined by the Rev. H. Bell, Vicar of Longhough- 

 ton, Rev. E. Mangin, Mr Hunter, and the Rev. R. Webster. 



The following gentlemen, proposed at last meeting, were 

 elected : — Mr Geo. Brown, Coldstream ; Mr J. Paterson of 

 Berwick, London ; Mr James Grant ; Mr Thomas Hubback, 

 Sunnilaws, Kelso ; Rev. Adam Davison, Yetholm, and Lord 



* The same fern has also been found in considerable abundance in a bog on 

 the farm of Doddington by the Rev, "W. Lamb and W. Boyd. 



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