Meetings of Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, by J. Hardy. 417 



" Miss Molly a famed toast, was fair and young, 

 Had youth and charms, but then she had a tongue ; 

 From morn to night the eternal 'larum rung, 

 Which often lost those hearts her eyes had won."* 

 The fifth, meeting was held at Galashiels on September 25th. 

 There were 43 or 44 present, among whom were — the two 

 Secretaries ; Sir George H. S. Douglas, M.P. ; Sir Walter 

 Elliot, K.C.S.I. ; Eevs. J. F. Bigge, Stamfordham; J. E. Elliot, 

 Whalton ; James Earquharson, Selkirk ; Paton J. Gloag, D.D., 

 Galashiels ; Douglas Simpson, Whitby ; John Walker, Whalton ; 

 E. Hopper Williamson, Whickham ; Drs Henry S. Anderson, 

 Selkirk ; Alexander Dewar, Melrose ; Charles Douglas, Kelso ; 

 M. J. Turnbull, Coldstream ; Capt. Broad, Ashby, Melrose ; 

 Adjutant McPherson, Melrose ; Messrs Thomas Allan, Hornclirfe 

 House ; Thomas Arkle, Highlaws ; A. H. Borthwick, Ladiesyde 

 Lodge, Melrose ; W. L. Blaikie, Halidean ; W. B. Boyd, 

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

 wick ; E. J. W. Collingwood of Glanton Pyke ; William Currie 

 of Linthill ; J. T. S. Doughty, Ayton ; James Douglas, Spring- 

 wood Park ; John Scott Dudgeon, Longnewton Place ; James 

 Greenfield, Peston ; William Home, Galashiels ; Peter Loney, 

 Marchmont ; Charles McCallum, Newcastle; George L. Paulin, 

 Berwick ; Pobert Penton, Eans ; John Pussell, Galashiels ; 

 James Smail, Galashiels ; William Stevenson, Dunse ; John 

 Thomson, Kelso ; Charles Watson, Dunse ; W. Willoby, Ber- 

 wick ; James Wood, Galashiels. 



Sir Walter Elliot, who had been representative of the Club at 

 the Meeting of the British Association at Dublin, made a few re- 

 marks on Cromlechs ; as well as on cup-markings and. excised 

 circles on rocks in Ireland, similar to those among the sandstone 

 hills of Northumberland ; these having formed a theme of dis- 

 cussion at that congress. Mr James Wood exhibited an iron 

 spear-head, 9 inches long, which had been extracted from a drain 

 near Earlstoun, in April, 1878. He also shewed two Highland 

 charms or amulets, which he had recently obtained in Perthshire. 

 Both are globular, and of one inch in diameter. The one is a 

 natural nodule of agate enclosed in white chalcedony ; the other 

 is of green glass rudely cast, with wavy lines of white enamel 

 radiating from a centre at one end; being an example of an 



* The source of the story is said to he in Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy. 

 See Mrs Piozzi's Letters to and from Dr Samuel Johnson, ii., p. 248. 



