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need not allude to as they have been all duly chronicled ; but 

 I must be allowed to express the poignant sorrow which I 

 experienced on rejoining this club, and finding the vacant 

 place of my much loved friend and instructor Dr, Johnston, 

 and also of two other original members, the Reverend Andrew 

 and John Baird, both diligent and successful cultivators of 

 science. Their memorials have been written by skilled and 

 friendly pens, but it would have ill become me to have allowed 

 their names to have passed by unnoticed. Another distin- 

 guished member, Mr. Selby, of Twizell, has this year, in full- 

 ness of age, been removed from amongst us. The same 

 friend who so eloquently depicted the character of Dr. 

 Johnston has prepared a notice of Mr. Selby also, which will 

 appear in our Transactions. Within the last few weeks 

 another old and esteemed member of the club, Mr. Robert 

 Home, of Berwick, has been gathered to his fathers. And it 

 only remains for me, before leaving this painful theme, to 

 regret most sincerely, that severe illness has deprived the 

 club of Mr. Embleton's presence at its meetings. Though 

 absent in body, his spirit is ever with us, as his interesting 

 contributions testify. 



I now proceed to give a brief account of the various meet- 

 ings of the club during the past year, chiefly compiled from 

 the careful minutes of our talented secretary Mr. Tate. The 

 annual meeting was held at Kelso on the 27th September, 

 1866 : present — Mr. Arch. Jerdon, president ; Mr. George 

 Tate, secretary; Messrs. William Elliot, James Cunningham, 

 Wm. Cunningham, T. Y. Greet, F. J. W. Collingwood, J. 

 C. Langlands, J. Hilson, Chas. Watson, Ed. Allen, William 

 Crawford, T. Allan, C. P. Bosanquet, A. Jeffrey, Captain 

 McLaren, R. Middlemas, Sir Walter Elliot, Drs. F. Douglas, 

 W. Mackenzie, M. J. TurnbuU, J. Paxton, A. Brown, Revs. 

 P. Mearns, Wm. Lamb, J. Walker, R. Jones, J. S. Green, 

 Geo. Watson, M. H. Graham, A. Davidson, and C. Eliot. 



The accounts were examined and passed, and the subscrip- 

 tion for the ensuing year fixed at 6s. The tollowing resolu- 

 tions were passed -.—That the regulation, which requires the 



