188 Anniversary Address, 



James Farquharson, Selkirk ; Dr. Henry Richardson, Sheriff 

 of Berwick i Mr. William Bell, Jedburgh ; Dr. Fawcus, 

 Ford ; Mr. Thomas Allan, Berwick ; and Mr. William Hen- 

 derson, Fowberry Mains. It was agreed that the Meeting 

 at St. Abb's Head should be held on June the 29th, and that 

 at Hownam on July the 27th. 



The second Field Meeting of the year was held at St. Abb's 

 Head on the 29th of June ; present — Mr. Frederick Colling- 

 wood, President ; Revds. John Walker, Thomas Leishman, 

 P. Mearns; Hon. F. Russell; Dr. Charles Douglas; Messrs. 

 George Tate, Secretary, D. Milne Home, J. C. Langlands, 

 W. Stevenson, Thomas Clutterbuck, E. Friar, Archibald 

 Jerdon, William Boyd, James Hardy, William Elliott, John 

 Orde, J. Waite, Charles Watson, William Crawford, Septi- 

 mus Smith, Thomas Landale, John Clay, and Edward Allen; 

 as visitors, the Rev. Dr. Leishman, of Glasgow; Mr. M'Gall; 

 Mr. Ren ton ; and Mr. Wilson, of Coldingham. 



By previous arrangement we assembled at Ayton, where 

 an omnibus and other conveyances awaited to take us accord- 

 ing to the programme ; firstly, to Coldingham, where Mr. 

 Wilson kindly guided us through the Priory ; but as this 

 has been so ably described in our former proceedings, I need 

 not add any further observations. Two new objects, how- 

 ever, were pointed out ; a font, rudely fashioned out of a 

 coarse porphyry rock, and which had belonged to the old 

 church on the Kirk Hill ; and the fragment of the shaft of a 

 Saxon cross, with characteristic knot or interlacing work; 

 this had been built into the wall of a house in the old town 

 of St. Abb's— now entirely destroyed — and it had probably 

 been brought from Ebba's Nunnery. 



Secondly, to Coldingham Loch, a sheet of water about 30 

 acres in extent, and 250 feet above the level of the sea. 

 Thence we proceeded on foot to Tunlaw — or Town-law — 

 camp, where there are two oblong British camps, with three 

 well defined ramparts to the S.W., and towards the east, 

 facing the sea, there is a precipice of about 300 feet. At 

 Earnsheugh, on our way to Petticowick, the peregrine falcon 



