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Report of the Meetings of the Berwickshire Naturalists' 

 Club for the Year 1878. By James Hardy. 



The last meeting for 1877 was held at Berwick on Wednesday, 

 October 31, 1877. There were present— Dr Charles Douglas, 

 Woodside, Kelso, President ; Dr Francis Douglas and Mr James 

 Hardy, Secretaries ; Beys. J. F. Bigge, Stamfordham ; William 

 Darnell, Bamburgh ; Hastings M. Neville, Ford ; B. F. Proud- 

 foot, Fogo ; B. Hopper Williamson, Whickham ; Captain David 

 Milne Home, M.P. ; Lieut.-Col. William Crossman, C.M.G. ; 

 Captain J. A. Forbes, B.N. ; Drs Colville Brown, Berwick ; H. 

 Bichardson, B.N., Berwick ; Messrs J. F. W. Collingwood of 

 Glanton Byke ; Balph Forster, Castle-hills ; Thomas Allan, 

 Horncliff House ; Bobert G. Bolam, Berwick ; W. B. Boyd, 

 Ormiston House ; Andrew Brotherston, Kelso ; John Clay, Ber- 

 wick ; John Clay, Winfield ; William Crawford, Dunse ; John 

 Dunlop, Berwick ; J. E. Friar, Grindon Bidge ; George Muir- 

 head, Baxton ; James Nicholson, Murton ; James Purves, Ber- 

 wick ; John Scott, Berwick ; George Heriot Stevens, Gullane ; 

 George H. Thompson, Alnwick ; John Thomson, Kelso ; Charles 

 Watson, Dunse ; William Weatherhead, Berwick ; William 

 Willoby, Berwick ; Charles M. Wilson, Hawick ; James Wood, 

 Galashiels ; Matthew Young, Berwick. 



This meeting was for the transaction of business ; but during 

 the day the Berwick Museum was visited, and the members were 

 welcomed to the house of Mrs Barwell Carter ; and Miss Dickin- 

 son from Norham had brought her collection of paintings of 

 British plants, which were examined with much interest. The 

 meeting was held at the King's Arms Hotel, at two o'clock. In 

 the absence of the Treasurer, Mr Hardy gave in a statement of 

 the accounts. The Bight Hon. the Earl of Haddington and Mr 

 William Wilson, Berwick, were proposed as members. The 

 Bresident then read his retiring address, and named as his suc- 

 cessor, Dr John Hutton Balfour, F.B.S., F.L.S., Professor 

 of Medicine and Botany in the University of Edinburgh. 

 Those who had been proposed for membership during the past 

 year, 39 in number, were elected members of the Club. 



The Bev. J. F. Bigge, according to notice, made a few remarks 

 in favour of restricting the number of members ; but eventually 

 it was resolved, on the suggestion of Dr Francis Douglas, that 



