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captures were made. At the same period it appeared at Hawick, 

 and a number were secured. Last autumn, while staying at 

 Longniddry, he captured, 8th Sept., seven specimens on the 

 Links, of the autumnal or second brood. The gardener at Laid- 

 lawsteel tells him, that it occurred in great profusion in his 

 garden there. The "Entomologist" for August records that it 

 was quite common in the county of Durham, from June 3rd to 

 14th. A Berwickshire collector had taken ten, including two 

 paired. A very fine specimen was obtained at Jedburgh, by A. 

 Elliot. 



Memoir of Robert Castles Embleton, Esq., Surgeon. By 

 Robert Middlemas. 



Robert Castles Embleton was born 14th December, 1806, at 

 Berwick-upon-Tweed. He was the son of John Embleton, of the 

 Berwick Bank, carried on under the firm of Surtees, Burdon, 

 Brandling, and Embleton. The father was born at Morpeth, 

 and married Elizabeth Castles, a native of Berwick-upon- 

 Tweed. The father died early, and the youth was placed at 

 a school kept by Mr Greenwood, of Blyth. At an early age 

 he came to Alnwick, and attended Mr George Trotter's 

 academy, and afterwards that kept by Rev. John Pears, 

 A.M., the first Secretary of the Alnwick Mechanics Institute. 

 Mr Embleton served an apprenticeship of six years to George 

 Wilson, an eminent surgeon in Alnwick, and during his appren- 

 ticeship he commenced the study of Botany, Natural History, 

 Electricity, and Galvanism, and lectured during his apprentice- 

 ship, upon the last two subjects, at the Mechanics Institute. He 

 became Secretary in 1827, and in the following year proceeded to 

 Edinburgh, where he remained for three years. He went to Cold- 

 stream, and was present during the cholera visitations in Febru- 

 ary, 1832. He showed his zeal and fitness for his profession by 

 his constant attendance upon the afflicted. During that same 

 year he took lodgings at Embleton, where he commenced prac- 

 tice as a surgeon. Five years afterwards he married Miss Mary 



