Anniversary Address. 105 



Eastern Borders." It was proposed and unanimously agreed, 

 that this paper be printed in the Club's Transactions and 

 fully illustrated, and that to meet the expense the subscrip- 

 tion for the ensuing year be 8s. 



A letter from Dr Wm. Baird to the secretary was read, 

 intimating the death of Mr E,. D. Thompson, one of the 

 founders of the club, and containing a short biographical 

 notice. The secretary was instructed to convey to Dr Baird 

 the expression of the regret of the meeting at the loss of so 

 old and estimable a member. 



Miscellania Zoologica and Botanica, by Mr Robert Em- 

 bleton, were read. There was also read a paper from the 

 Rev. "VVm. Procter, of Doddington, on the age of the vol- 

 canic cones in Auvergne. 



The member proposed at last meeting was elected ; and 

 the following were nominated : — Mr Christopher S. Bell, 

 Denwick, Alnwick ; Robert Wilson, M.D., Alnwick ; Mr J. 

 Towlerton Leather, Middleton, Belford ; Mr James Logan, 

 Newcastle-on-Tyne ; and Mr George Webster, Edinburgh. 



A hearty vote of thanks was passed to Mr and Mrs Darnell, 

 and the meeting broke up, having spent the day in a most 

 agreeable manner. 



At the Dunse meeting on the 28th August, 1862, it was 

 remitted to me to make enquiry regarding certain shells said 

 to have been found in a sandpit at the east end of Bedshiel 

 Kaims. On a recent visit I ascertained from Mr Lithgow, 

 the tenant of Bedshiel, who had seen the shells in question, 

 that they were of a very fragile character. I could find no 

 evidence of their having been embedded in the sand, and no 

 fragments of them, so far as I could learn, have been pre- 

 served. I have no doubt that they were recent freshwater or 

 land shells, and that their connection with the sand of the 

 pit was merely accidental. They were evidently not sea- 

 shells, and these kaims are unquestionably of marine origin. 



Another remit was made to me by the Newtown meeting, on 

 the 28th May, 1863, relative to the age of the sandstone quar- 

 ried at East Morriston. I have examined the quarry and found 



