24 Anniversary Address. 



Botanist of H. B. M. Surveying ship the " Challenger " ; Mr 

 Robert Paton, Rosebank, Norham ; Rev. Robert O. Brom- 

 field, Sprouston ; Mr Alexander Robertson, jun., Berwick - 

 Mr W. L. Miller, banker, Berwick; Rev. William Dobie, 

 Ladykirk ; Mr John Clay, jun., Kerchesters, Kelso. 



Among the rarer plants observed during the day were : — 

 Lepidium latifolium, Nasturtium palustre and sylvestre, 

 the corn blue bottle (Centaurea Cyanus), the hairy variety 

 (pwberwla) of Silene inflata, Carex Watsonii, Hieracium 

 murorwm, and Myosotis palustris. 



The fourth meeting of the Club for the year was at Roth- 

 bury, on Tuesday, the 29th of August. It was feared that 

 the difficulty of access, and the threatening state of the 

 weather, would have prevented a large attendance. But 

 there were present at one time or other during the day 

 forty-five inembers of the Club, and their friends, including 

 A. Campbell Swinton, President ; Dr Douglas and Mr Hardy, 

 Secretaries ; Rev. Dr Ainger, Rothbury ; Sir George Doug- 

 las, Bart., M.P.; Sir Walter Elliot; F. W. Collingwood, 

 Glanton Pyke ; Drs Wilson, Alnwick ; H. Richardson, R.N., 

 Berrington House ; J. Paxton, Norham ; Revs. W. Green- 

 well, F.S.A., Durham ; W. Darnell, Bamburgh ; J. F. Bigge, 

 Stamfordham ; G. P. Wilkinson, Harperley Park, Darlington ; 

 E. A. "Wilkinson, Spennymoor ; J. E. Elliot, Whalton ; P. 

 G. McDouall, Kirknewton ; T. Rogers, Durham ; W. H. 

 Walter, Durham ; A. Jones, Stannington ; Hughes, Roth- 

 bury ; H. E. Henderson, Eglingham ; Messrs J. B. Boyd, 

 Cherry trees ; W. B. Boyd, Ormiston ; Charles Rea, Dodding- 

 ton ; Masters Rea ( 2) ; James Tait, Eglingham ; Thos. Hen- 

 derson, Middlethird ; Thomas Allan, Horncliffe House ; E. 

 Allen, Alnwick ; Messrs Bosanquet, Rock (3) ; W. Richard- 

 son, Alnwick; T. Arkle, Highlaws, Morpeth; H.F.Shaw, 

 London ; Berger, Durham ; W. F. Pepper, Leeds ; G. B. 

 Douglas, Springwood Park ; W. Hindmarsh, Alnwick ; S. 

 Donkin, Bywell ; T. H. Gibb, Alnwick ; W. Topley, F.G.S. ; 

 E. Topley. 



Of the village, I borrow the following description from 



