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country, where it has had more than one narrow escape. If Mr 

 Gilmore is blessed with a safe voyage, the poor ' Shield ' is at last 

 sure of a quiet home after all its wanderings. An account of its 

 adventures would be as full of interest, and much more so, than the 

 far-famed ' Adventures of a Guinea' or even those of Gil Bias." 



Mr Ritchie's premises, in which this precious relic has 

 thus found " a quiet home," are occupied also as the Commer- 

 cial Bank. They formerly belonged to the Sir William 

 Douglas, who fell at Broxmouth. The site of St. Bey's, or 

 St. Anne's Chapel, was on the shore behind. A curious old 

 dial of date 1649, with the inscription, " Watch foe ye Kno 

 NOT the Howee," was found on this site called " St. Anne's 

 Court," and removed to the garden, in 1871. 



After dinner, so far as the limited time permitted, the fol- 

 lowing papers were read : — 1. Memoir of Captain James 

 Forsyth, M.A., Bengal Staff Corps, Assistant Commissioner, 

 1st Class, Central Provinces, author of the " Highlands of 

 Central India," " The Sporting Rifle and its Projectiles," &c, 

 by his father, the Rev. James Forsyth, D.D., Aberdeen. 2. 

 Notices of W. P. Turnbull, LL.D., author of " The Birds of 

 East Lothian ;" and of Captain Laskey, the Conchologist, by 

 Robert Gray, F.R.S.E. 3. The Ornithology of the Dunbar 

 Coast, by Mr Gray. This was a paper of great interest, the 

 coast being rich in birds. 4. Sir Walter Elliot addressed 

 the Club on the ravages of the field vole (Arvicola agrestis) 

 in the Borthwick water district, and read a number of com- 

 munications on the subject, which will be embodied in a 

 paper in our Proceedings. A number of stone implements 

 from the east of Berwickshire and Northumberland were 

 handed round. One of a broad wedge shape, of unknown 

 stone, the Rev. J. F. Bigge had obtained from Gunnerton 

 Crags, Tynedale. 



The following additions to the membership were proposed : 

 Mr Edward Ridley, 10, Carlton House Terrace, London; 

 Rev. G. P. Wilkinson, Harperley Park, Darlington ; Mr Geo. 

 Short, Stanhope Cottage, Norfolk Road, London ; Rev. W. 



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