Anniversary Address. 15 



The following new members were proposed on this occa- 

 sion : — Rev. Hastings M. Neville, rector of Ford ; Professor 

 A. Freire Marecco, Secretary to the Natural History Society 

 of Northumberland and Durham ; Rev. George Henderson, 

 Ancroft ; and Charles M. Wilson, solicitor, Hawick. 



The third meeting of the Club took place at the Bass Rock 

 on July 30th, and was the most numerously attended meet- 

 ing of the season. Fifty members and their friends were 

 present : — Dr. Stuart, President ; Dr. F. Douglas and Mr. J. 

 Hardy, Secretaries ; Mr. Robt. Middlemas, Treasurer ; Sir 

 Walter Elliot ; Revs. J. S. Green, P. G. McDouall, W. L. J. 

 •Cooley, W. J. Meggison, Ambrose Jones, L. J. Stephens : 

 Captains J. T. McPherson, J. Carr-Ellison ; Messrs. J. C. 

 Langlands, J. Clay, F. Walker, A. R. Borthwick, Ed. Allen, 

 W. Dickson, W. Stevenson, T. Allan, J. P. Turnbull, G. 

 Allen, W. Dickson (WeMeld), J. Scott Dudgeon, R. Douglas, 

 G. P. Hughes, M. Young, J. T. S. Doughty, M. Dand, W. B. 

 Boyd, H. Hunter. As visitors : — Professor Balfour ; Messrs. 

 Fanon, J. Anderson (Scottish Antiquarian Society), J. Sadler 

 (Royal Botanic Gardens), Hunter Blair (Newcastle), James 

 Brown (Wedderburne Castle), John Latham, J. Brown 

 (Glasgow), J. Blackadder, J. Bertram, Llewellyn Jones . 

 Master Carr-Ellison and Master Douglas. 



The weather being pleasant and the wind light, the land- 

 ing on the rock from Canty Bay was accomplished comfort- 

 ably ; but owing to a number of the members having 

 omitted to send their names, previous to the meeting, to Mr. 

 Hardy, the means of transit to the rock were unfortunately 

 deficient, which caused a number of members to be late for 

 dinner, and get some rain and rough weather in returning 

 from the rock, which the first parties happily escaped. 

 Sagina procumbens and 8. apetala were observed as new 

 to the Bass by Mr. Hardy, and Peplis portula in a pool near 

 the summit, and in flower, by Mr. Sadler. At the landing- 

 place at Canty Bay plenty of Scabiosa Columbaria was 

 observed — by no means a common plant in the district. Dr. 



