Anniversary Address. 29 



of the Club interfering to protect the localities of rare plants 

 from being rifled. This the Club have always professed to do 



The following gentlemen were proposed as members : — 

 Rev. W. H. Walter, Grove House, Gilesgate, Durham j Mr 

 James Hunter, of Antonshill, Coldstream ; Mr George Bris- 

 bane Douglas, Springwood Park ; Rev. John B. Fletcher, 

 Dunse ; Mr Thomson Jeffrey, 36, George's Square, Edin- 

 burgh ; and the Rev. Dr Ainger, Rothbury, Morpeth. 



At this meeting, Mr George P. Hughes, of Middleton Hall, 

 and Mr Edward Allen, Alnwick, were nominated to repre- 

 sent the Club at the approaching meeting of the British As- 

 sociation, at Glasgow. 



The former of these gentlemen has favoured me with a 

 report of the meeting. 



To this imperfect summary of the Proceedings of the 

 Club during the past year, I have very little to add. The 

 year may, I think, be said to have been one of general pros- 

 perity throughout the district embraced in our peregrina- 

 tions. For the pursuits of the botanist and the archaeologist, 

 the weather has been specially favourable. During part of 

 the summer the thermometer stood higher than it had done 

 for many years. Even the farmers confess to a tolerably 

 successful harvest. The great event of the season in our 

 Border land was, what I may call the triumphal progress 

 through it of His Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught. 

 That event has an historical interest, as being the first occa- 

 sion on which a Royal Prince had crossed the Tweed at 

 Berwick, since William, Duke of Cumberland, the victor of 

 Culloden, was entertained there in August, 1771. But its 

 claim to be recorded here is founded on the circumstance, 

 that the Flora of the district was put largely in requisition 

 to attest the loyalty of its inhabitants. On the arrival of 

 the detachment of hussars in Dunse, there was, as His Royal 

 Highness himself expressed it, scarcely a trooper whose 

 buttonhole did not boast a bouquet. 



Of the prosperity which I have attributed to the district, 

 our Club has had its full share. I do not know that I have 



