300 Anniversary Address. 



I collected in the bog between Spindlestoneand the pond, Gym- 

 nadenia conopsea, Orchis maculata, and its rose-coloured 

 variety, Listera ovata, Epipactis palustris, Valeriana dioica, 

 Blysmus compressus, Carlina vulgaris, and Ranunculus 

 Lingua; and near the farm-place, the wart-cress, Coronopus 

 Ruellii. A few insects were taken, including Metabletus foveola 

 (on the hills), Sphcerula Lythri ; and a saw fly, from the bog, 

 Cladius difformis. At Bamburgh, subsequently, Mr Middle- 

 mas found a double variety (garden form) of the soap- wort 

 (Saponaria officinalis), run wild near the edge of the links ; 

 and Mr Boyd plucked a sea-side variety of Galium verum, 

 which simulates a heath." 



The route by the sea-side hostelwards was abandoned for 

 want of time, and the party returned by the Budle road, just 

 in time to meet their friends from the sea-side. 



The company assembled at dinner numbered thirty-three. 

 Time being limited, business was gone into rapidly (rather 

 than orderly), and quickly dispatched. The Kev. Eobert 

 Park, Bamburgh ; Mr Thomas Arkle, Highlaws, Morpeth ; 

 and Captain J. Carr-Ellison, Hedgeley, were proposed as 

 members of the Club. Mr Darnell was then requested to 

 read his paper on, " Bamburgh Church : past and present." 

 The President read an account of the supposed occurrence of 

 the Sand Grouse, on Beadnell and Sunderland links, this 

 spring, as reported to him ; and made some remarks on 

 a somewhat peculiar solar halo, which he had seen 

 on the 9th of May. A communication from the British 

 Association of Science to the Secretaries, " On the 

 Organization of Local Scientific Societies," was then taken 

 up ; and Sir Walter Elliot addressed the Club in some ex- 

 planatory remarks, as the purport of the ciicular had been 

 misapprehended. Mr Hardy then read an article on a Cist, 

 which had been ploughed up near Oldcambus in June ; and 

 afterwards shewed a number of flints which had been picked 

 up in the cultivated fields, as well as several rude ornaments 

 of the flint age. The Rev. Canon Greenwell then addressed 



