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The Club has to lament the loss by death of the following mem- 

 bers : — Mr William Wightinan, Wooler; Eev. Robert Home, 

 Swinton; Eev. Dugald Macalister, Stitchell; William M. Mac- 

 kenzie, M.D., Kelso; Eichard Hodgson Hnntley of Carham; 

 and Lieut. -Col. Sir James Grant Suttie, Bart., of Balgone and 

 Prestongrange. Mr George Young, Berwick, was inadvertently 

 omitted in last year's obituary list. 



The following papers or notices bearing upon the Natural 

 History of the district have appeared during the present or past 

 season : — 1. " Notes on the Feme Islands, and some of the Birds 

 which are found there ;" by Mr J. H. Gurney, jun., F.Z.S., in the 

 Proceedings of the Natural History Society of Glasgow, iii. pp. 

 268-278. Mr Gurney makes remarks on the Cormorant, Puffin, 

 Guillemot, Razorbill, Gannet, Eider Duck, King Duck, Velvet 

 Scoter, Common Gull ; the Common, Arctic, Sandwich, and 

 Roseate Terns ; Oyster Catcher, Purple Sandpiper, and Turn- 

 stone. 2. Mr Peter Cameron on the "Fauna of the West of 

 Scotland;" Hymenoptera ; records several Berwickshire Saw- 

 flies from my notes or specimens. Athalia glabricollis, Thomson, 

 has not been entered in the Club's lists ; but is common on 

 Cruciferous plants, notably at the Pease Bridge, on the foliage of 

 Erysimum Alliaria. 3. Mr Darcy W. Thompson in the " Scottish 

 Naturalist," is putting to service the Club's recent Ornithological 

 contributions, in a list of the Birds of the South of Scotland. 4. The 

 Rev. 0. Pickard-Cambridge in a list of the Spiders of Scotland, 

 reprinted from the "Entomologist" for 1877, records Erigone 

 conigera, Cambridge, as occurring in my collection made near 

 Oldcambus, which had been omitted in his List of Berwickshire 

 and Northumberland Spiders, in the "Proceedings" for 1875. 

 5. The Fourth Report of the Boulder Committee of the Royal 

 Society of Edinburgh, which has now appeared, describes some 

 of the Boulders within our bounds. 6. Our learned co-adjutors, 

 Messrs W. Topley, F.G.S., and G. A. Labour, F.G.S., have com- 

 municated to the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society for 

 May, 1877, a valuable paper " On the Intrusive Character of the 

 Whin Sill of Northumberland." 



The veteran contributor to public instruction, Dr William 

 Chambers, has inserted in his Journal, of Nov. 9, 1878, a com- 

 mendatory notice of the Club, its aims, and its social gatherings, 

 prefatory to an account of the Galashiels meeting. "The 



