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shewn the most careful anxiety for its welfare ; his whole 

 heart and mind have been in the work, and the result has 

 been a complete triumphant success. He was the friend and 

 companion of my early years, " when the heart promised 

 what the fancy drew," and it is a great pleasure to me to 

 have the opportunity of unloading my mind of a burden 

 which has long hung heavily upon it, of tendering from this 

 chair our unanimous and most cordial feelings of grateful 

 appreciation of the meritorious services of our honorary 

 secretary. Long may he live, for it will be a very difficult 

 thing to find his like again." The Secretary responded in 

 most feeling terms, and felt assured that when his mantle 

 fell from his shoulders there would be many able and worthy 

 to put it on. 



The fourth meeting of the Club was held at Whiteburn, on 

 August £5th, 1870, when there were present — the Rev. Geo. 

 Selby Thomson, president ; Mr. G. Tate, secretary ; Dr. F. 

 Douglas/ Dr. W. B. Robertson ; Rev. M. H. Graham ; 

 Messrs. R. Romanis, J. Scott Dudgeon, Sholto Douglas, 

 James Wood, John Douglas, and M. Milne. 



After breakfast a note from Lady John Scott was read, 

 dated Cawston, Rugby, Warwickshire, August 10. 



" Lady John Scott presents her compliments to Mr. Tate. 

 She has written to her bailiff at Spottiswood to shew the 

 visitors all that can be seen, but she regrets, that most of the 

 antiquarian relics found in the neighbourhood are locked up ; 

 had she been at home, she should have been very glad to 

 have shewn them. Coming from Whiteburn, they will pass 

 near ' Clach Hairie,' a cairn examined some years ago by Mr. 

 Spottiswood and Lady John, with very interesting and 

 curious results. A great number of the short stone cists — a 

 beautiful urn, containing burnt bones, human, animal, and 

 of birds — sling stones, flints, and near it remains of hut 

 habitations. ' Hartlaw House,' on a farm at Spottiswood, 

 was opened with similar, and even more, curious results, 

 but the accounts of each were read by Sir J. Simpson 

 and Dr. Stuart, at a meeting of the Antiquarian Society. 



