Anniversary Address. 7 



Middlesex ; John Halliday, Wedderburn Castle, Dunse ; Rev. 

 J. Hill Scott/Kelso ; George Greig, Harvieston, Stonehaven ; 

 Alexander Buchan, Secretary to the Meteorological Society, 

 Edinburgh ; William Kinnear, Radcliffe Colliery, Acklington. 



The places of meeting for the year 1876 were fixed as fol- 

 lows : — Selkirk, in May ; Innerwick or Dunbar, in June ; 

 Norham and Hornclitfe, in July ; Rothbury, in August ; 

 and Dunse, in September. On subsequent consideration, 

 Selkirk and Dunbar changed places. 



Accordingly the first meeting in 1876 was held at Dunbar, 

 on Wednesday, the 17th of May. I greatly regretted that 

 an unavoidable engagement prevented my attendance. There 

 were twenty-three present. The day was most favourable 

 for a walk along the East Lothian sea coast — clear and 

 sunny, the wind raising only a slight ripple on the waves. 

 The company comprised the two secretaries, Dr Francis 

 Douglas and Mr James Hardy ; Sir Walter Elliot ; Revs. J. 

 F. Bigge (Stamfordham), William Darnell (Bamburgh), J. E. 

 Elliot (Whalton), Hill Scott (Kelso), E. A. Wilkinson (Tud- 

 hoe, Durham), W. Stobbs (Gordon), W. Sprott (North Ber- 

 wick) ; Lieut.-Colonel Aytoun ; Captain Forbes, R.N., Ber- 

 wick ; Captain Norman, R.N., North Berwick ; Drs Charles 

 Stuart, Charles Douglas, J. Robson Scott ; Messrs Thomas 

 Allan (Horncliffe), J. B. Boyd (Cherry trees), George Muir- 

 head (Paxton), Edward Allen (Alnwick), W T . Shaw (Eye- 

 mouth), Charles Watson (Dunse). In the absence of the 

 president, the Rev. J. F. Bigge -officiated as chairman. Mr 

 James Knox, bookseller, Dunbar, kindly acted as guide 

 throughout the day. After viewing the interior of the Town 

 Hall, which consists of a succession of vacant uninviting 

 rooms, and being shewn the presses and chests containing 

 the town's documents, said to be extensive and curious, the 

 route was taken for the old Castle, which occupies a com- 

 manding situation, but is now a shapeless ruin, the new har- 

 bour having cut off a considerable portion of it at the eastern 

 end. It commands an extensive view ; the white cliffs of 

 the Bass were the most conspicuous object in the distance, 



