4 Anniversary Address. 



The Anniversary Meeting at Alnwick, on Wednesday, the 

 29th of September, was attended by upwards of sixty gentle- 

 men, including the following members of the Club, and their 

 friends :— the Rev. J. F. Bigge, Stamfordham, President ; Dr 



F. Douglas and Mr James Hardy, Secretaries ; Mr R. Middle- 

 mas, Treasurer ; F. J. W. Collingwood, of Glanton Pyke ; D. 

 Milne Home, of Wedderburn ; Captain Milne Home, M.P. ; 

 A. Campbell Swinton, of Kimmerghame ; John Halliday, 

 Wedderburn Castle ; George Greig, Harvieston ; Col. Aytoun, 

 Edinburgh ; Major Holland, Alnwick ; Captain Forbes, 

 R.N., Berwick ; Captain Gandy, Alnwick ; Revs. J. C. 

 Bruce, LL.D., Newcastle ; E. B. Trotter, Alnwick ; G. 

 Selby Thomson, Acklington ; P. G. McDouall, Kirknewton ; 

 Edward L. Marrett, Lesbury ; J. E. Elliot, Whalton ; E. 

 Butter, Spittal ; Hill Scott, Kelso ; A. Bisset, Foulden ; 

 W. S. Chedburn, Berwick; Drs Charles Douglas, Kelso; 

 Charles Stuart, Chirnside ; C. Brown, Berwick ; R. Wilson, 

 Alnwick ; B. T. Heuston, Dunse ; Messrs W. B. Boyd, 

 Ormiston House ; J. Scott-Dudgeon, Longnewton ; W. 

 Currie, Linthill ; C. M. Wilson, Hawick ; C. Watson, 

 Dunse ; G. Paulin, Berwick ; W. and R. Weatherhead, 

 Berwick ; R. Dand, Hauxley Hall ; John Clay, Berwick ; 



G. Muirhead, Paxton ; S. H. Smith, Norham ; Adam Robert- 

 son, Alnwick ; Alexander Buchan, Secretary to the Meteoro- 

 logical Society of Scotland ; John Short, Newcastle ; Charles 

 Patterson, Coldingham ; W. Elliot, Whalton ; John Bolam, 

 Alnwick ; J. Heatley, Alnwick ; Henry Hunter, Alnwick ; 

 H. H. Blair, Alnwick ; Edward Allen, Alnwick ; J. B. Kerr, 

 Kelso ; Thomas Tate, Alnwick ; John Tate, Barnhill. 



The place of meeting possessed a peculiar interest, as being 

 associated with the life and labours of the late Mr George 

 Tate, who was for many years Secretary to the Club, and 

 whose learned and interesting work, entitled " The History 

 of the Borough, Castle, and Barony of Alnwick," has left 

 nothing for a subsequent annalist to record, regarding either 

 the antiquities of the town, or the geology, botany, and 

 zoology of the surrounding district. To many of our members 



