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greywacke slates, and forms the Gallows law. The vein is 

 the sulphate of Barytes, which is white and crystallized ; the 

 Antimony ore I did not see, but Mr. Dickson, several years 

 ago, dug out about a cart load of it." On this the President 

 has to remark that these minerals have long been known to 

 exist on the Gallows law. It is more than thirty years since 

 I received specimens of both from this place ; and when visit- 

 ing it a few years ago, on the adjoining property of Mr. 

 Home, fragments were still lying strewed about. 



The following v/ere nominated for membership: — Rev. 

 John Elphinston Elliot, rector of WhaUon, and Mr. H. S. 

 Bolam of Weetwood. Dr. Francis Douglas gave notice that 

 he will move at the annual meeting, that Mr. William Shaw 

 of Gunsgreen, and Mr. John Anderson of Lintlaw-burn, 

 Edrom, be elected corresponding members of the Club. 



The second meeting of the year was held at Alwinton on 

 June 25th. The President's journal commences at Old 

 Bewick, whence Mr. Langlands and he set out, while the 

 birds were yet singing their matins. A shower had chilled 

 the air, but at the same time had cleared it, and brought to 

 view, both on the right and left, the tops of all the hills, and 

 sharpened their outlines ; whilst along the lower land, nothing 

 that had prominence lay hid. This is the kind of weather in 

 which the Northumbrian hills arrange themselves to the best 

 advantage. They vary much in shape ; what appears to be a 

 narrow end in one aspect lengthens to a vast hill-side in 

 another, and what we have found to be a tedious long ridge 

 in crossing, shrinks up into narrow space. I will not enumer- 

 ate them. It accompanied us all the way to Alwinton, that 

 gieen porphyritic range on our right, — a multitude of rounded 

 forms undulating into each other rather than jutting out, and 

 slanting away upwards, not without hollows intersected by 

 streams behind and between, but invisible to us, to a loftier and 

 darker back range, — Hedgehope, Bleakhope, Hogden, and 

 Cushet law. They are devoted wholly to pasturage, while the 

 way we took was along the lower slopes of cultivated ground. 

 Corn poppies, Papamr duhium and P. argemone, prevailed 

 in sandy fields near New Bewick ; and nearer Woopcrton 

 there was a splendid field of blossoming Car dims nutans, a 



