394 Meetings of Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, by J. Hardy 



The second meeting was held at Wooler, for Yeavering Bell, 

 on June 26th, and was numerously attended. About thirty-five 

 breakfasted, and over forty dined at the Tankerville Arms Hotel. 

 There were present — Mr Hardy, Secretary ; Mr Middlemas, 

 Treasurer ; Eevs. E. Brown, Alnwick ; M. Oreighton, Emble- 

 ton ; Adam Davidson, Yetholm ; John Dawson, Makerstoun ; J. 

 E. Elliot, Wharton ; J. S. Green, Wooler ; Thomas Leishman, 

 D.D., Linton; Peter McKerron, Kelso; H. M. Neville, Ford; 

 David Paul, Eoxburgh ; Aislabie Proctor, Doddington ; A. G. 

 Taylor, Eglingham ; John Walker, Whalton ; and G. Woods, 

 Oxford ; Drs Dennis Embleton, Newcastle ; Alex. Main, Alnwick ; 

 Henry Eichardson, E.N., Berwick ; Captains J. Carr-Ellison, 

 Hedgeley ; J. A. Forbes, Berwick ; — Forsyth, Berwick ; F. M. 

 Norman, Berwick ; Messrs Thomas Allan, Horncliffe House ; 

 Edward Allen, Alnwick ; H. H. Blair, Alnwick ; John Bolam, 

 Alnwick ; A. Brotherston, Kelso ; C. H. Cadogan of Brenckburn 

 Priory ; John Clay, Berwick ; M. T. Culley of Coupland Castle ; 

 M. Culley, jun. ; Arthur Evans, Scremerston ; J. E. Friar, 

 Grindon Eidge ; James Heatley, Alnwick ; Eobert Hislop, 

 Blairbank, Falkirk ; Oskar M. Lindquist, Sweden ; Geo. Muir- 

 head, Paxton ; W. Eichardson, Alnwick ; A. Eobertson, Aln- 

 wick ; A. T. Eobertson, Berwick ; James Eobertson, Eock Moor 

 House ; John Thomson, Kelso ; G. H. Thompson, Alnwick ; 

 William Topley, F.G.S., Whittingham. 



After breakfast, the main body of the members decided to go 

 towards Yeavering by the gap that runs in a N.W. direction 

 across the hills, behind Humbleton Hill. This, although 

 attended with rough walking, up-hill work, and steep descents, 

 leads one eventually to the shortest ascent of the hill ; and had 

 not the day proved intolerably sultry and close, it might have 

 been comfortably accomplished. Leaving the west-end of 

 Wooler, the walk was along the public road to the High Burn- 

 house, and then crossed the fields by the foot-path to Humbleton. 

 In a field between the upper and lower turnpikes, belonging to 

 the Tankerville Arms, but bordering on Burnhouse farm, a large 

 sandstone, called "the Whetting Stone," formerly lay, on which 

 the people of Wooler, in the period of Border warfare, sharpened 

 their weapons. It is now incorporated with the fence-wall of the 

 enclosure. The sandstone strata, which are exposed in a section 

 near the burn, have been recently struck near Humbleton Mill, 



