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gathered by Mr. A. Brotherston, which had spread as a weed 

 over the garden at Newton-Don. Dr. Stuart had a collection 

 of the Whitadder plants ; but there was not leisure on this 

 occasion to identify them as species. He also brought part 

 of a British cranium, with a rude flint knife or scraper, 

 which was discovered in the same cist, and more fully 

 described in a separate notice in the Proceedings. 



Thereafter the Club adjourned to the residence of Mrs 

 Barwell Carter, formerly that of her distinguished father, 

 and inspected many memorials of that eminent naturalist, as 

 well as several drawings of Mrs Johnston, which for fidelity 

 to nature and exquisite delicacy in manipulation are un- 

 rivalled as illustrations of her husband's writings. Under 

 the guidance of the Vicar of Berwick, the Rev. J. G. Bo we, 

 the Church was visited, the stained glass windows inspected, 

 and the old inscriptions examined. In the vestry are pre- 

 served the colours of the Berwick Volunteer Regiment 

 of 1806. A walk was taken to the coast at Greenses, along 

 the escarpment of the shale and limestone. The limestone 

 is mostly compact, and is characterized by fine encrinal 

 stems, Producti, &c. But towards the northern edge it be- 

 comes (cellular, the hollows being filled with crystallized 

 carbonate of lime. The party proceeded no farther than a 

 slip in the stratification, by which the sandstone has been 

 brought down several feet, and the ends of the shale strata, 

 in slipping down, have been twisted backwards. The sand- 

 stone contained certain concretionary nodules of iron. Far- 

 ther along towards Berwick, fragments of Stigmaria in this 

 sandstone are converted into iron. There are nodules of 

 iron-pyrites in the shale. The surface of the limestone is 

 cracked into massive squares like pavements. The strata 

 slope towards the sea ; and off the Greenses are at intervals 

 shattered away circularly from each other, by the irregular 

 action of the waves, so that they appear to be like a series 

 of rims round a centre, like a target. The same process may 

 be seen on a sloping road, over sandstone strata, where the 



