2 Anniversary Address. 



" A wet, cold morning prevented many members from 

 attending ; yet sixteen were assembled to take part in the 

 proceedings of the day, including the President Mr. James 

 Hardy, the Secretary Mr. George Tate, Mr. D. Milne Home 

 of Wedderburn, and Mr. Arch. Jerdon. The other members 

 present were — Dr. C.Stuart, the Rev. Wm. Wilson, Chirnside ; 

 Mr. Wm. Stevenson, Mr. C. Watson, Mr. Wm. Crawford, 

 Dunse ; Mr. Roy Borthwick, Mr. Gilbert Stewart, Melrose ; 

 Mr. Heatley, Alnwick; Mr. G. B. Black, Prior Bank; Mr. 

 J. Edward Friar, Grindon Ridge ; Mr. J. Clay, Berwick ; 

 Dr. Paxton, Norham. After breakfast, the accounts, which 

 show a good balance in favour of the Club, were passed. 

 Seventeen new members were elected, among whom was 

 Dr. Acland, the eminent Professor of Medicine in Oxford 

 University, whom we had had the pleasure of seeing at our 

 Meeting of the 27th of August, at Alnwick. A new rule 

 was proposed by Dr. Douglas and seconded by Mr. George 

 Tate, that ' Corresponding members, who shall not be called 

 upon to pay subscriptions, may be admitted into the Club ; 

 they may be nominated and seconded at any meeting prior to 

 that held in September, and elected at the Annual Meeting 

 by the votes of three-fourths of the members present; they 

 shall be entitled to attend the meetings, to send communica- 

 tions, and to receive one copy of the yearly Proceedings.' The 

 resolution was unanimously adopted, and in accordance there- 

 with, Mr. Wm. Shaw of Guns-green, and Mr. Anderson of 

 Lintlaw-burn, were elected corresponding members. The 

 following places of meeting for 1869, were then selected — 

 Burnmouth, Lauder, Hawick or Castleton (to meet the 

 Dumfriesshire Club) Howick, and Berwick. 



" Mr. Gilbert Stewart read a remarkable paper giving an 

 account of several new plants discovered on the banks of the 

 Gala and the Tweed, many of which have been introduced 

 into the district, from distant localities, by the fleeces of wool 

 used in the manufacture on Gala water. Afterwards, fine 

 specimens of red selenite and white fibrous gypsum from the 

 Tuedian formation on the Whitadder were shown to the 



