184 Anniversary Address. 



The Anniversary Meeting of the year 1864, was held at 

 Berwick, on the 29th of September, when there were present 

 — ^Mr. William Stevenson, President ; Kevds. W. Darnell, 

 F. E,. Simpson, Mark Pattison, P. Mearns, A. Davidson, 

 K Wilkinson, J. Irwin ; Drs. J. Wilson, Charles Douglas ; 

 Messrs. George Tate, Secretary, David Milne Home, R. 

 Home, R. Douglas, W. Crawford, Fairfax Feamley, J. Clay, 

 P. Clay, J. C. Langlands, S. Smith, T. Y. Greet, T. Tate, 

 T. Friar, E. Friar, W. Boyd, J. Paxton, Jones Merrott, and 

 W. Watson. 



After breakfast at the Red Lion Inn, the accounts for the 

 year were examined and approved of. It was then reported, ' 

 in reference to the proposal for reprinting the three first 

 volumes of the Proceedings of the Club, that the number of 

 subscribers as yet obtained, was not sufficient to warrant the 

 Club carrying out such proposal; and it was therefore resolved 

 to appoint Mr. Robert Douglas, the Rev. Peter Mearns, and 

 Mr. T. Y. Greet, a committee to make further inquiry, and 

 to report thereon to a future meeting of the Club. 



The following resolutions, of which notice had been pre- 

 viously given, were considered and agreed to : — 



1. That the Members assembled at breakfast at any Meet- 

 ing of the Club, be not allowed to alter the dinner hour 

 named in the printed circular. 



2. That the election of a new member be by a majority 

 of the votes of Members present at the Meeting when the 

 proposal is made ; that the votes be taken by ballot ; and 

 that an entrance fee of 10s. be paid by the member elected, 

 who shall be entitled to receive a copy of the Proceedings of 

 the Club for the year in which he is elected. 



So much time was occupied with business arrangements, 

 that the walk of the day was necessarily short ; often, how- 

 ever, as the district around Berwick has been explored by the 

 Club, the objects of interest are far from being exhausted. 

 The geology of the coast, from the Tweed to Cheswick, was 

 upon this occasion examined under the able guidance of 

 Mr. Tate. The strata exposed, present one of the most 



