Anniversary Address. 19 



Romanes; 4. Notes on some Bass Plants, by Mr. Jas. Hardy. 



Forty-one dined at the Commercial Hotel, North Berwick 

 — the President in the chair. Mr. R. Douglas, Town Clerk 

 of Berwick, officiated as croupier. Professor Balfour, who 

 accompanied the party, was proposed as a member by Sir 

 Walter Elliot, and seconded. by the President ; and was at 

 once elected, by unanimous consent. Sir Walter Elliot and 

 Mr. Hughes, of Middleton Hall, Northumberland, were ap- 

 pointed representatives of the Club at the British Association. 



The fourth meeting of the year was held at Chirnside, on 

 August 28th. There were present: — Dr. C. Stuart, President; 

 Mr. Jas. Hardy, Secretary ; Drs. R. Hood, F. S. Cahill, and 

 Matthew James Turnbull ; Messrs. D. Milne Home, W. B. 

 Boyd, C. B. P. Bosanquet, F. Russell, W. Stevenson, George 

 Young, C. Watson, W. Crawford, F. Walker ; and as visitors: 

 — Captain D. Milne Home, and Messrs. John and Charles 

 Stuart. 



After breakfast, some drawings by Mr. Geo. P. Hughes, of 

 the singular-looking oriental insects called " Walking sticks" 

 and " Walking leaves," were examined and commented on. 

 These insects had been collected by Dr. Hughes, a member 

 of the Club, in the East India Islands. The President pro- 

 duced some interesting plants — Saxifraga hirculus, Sedum 

 villosum, Ophioglossum vulgatum, Gymnadenia conopsea, 

 &c, from Langtonlees dean ; and Lythrum Salicaria, Con- 

 vallaria polygonatwrn, Typha latifolia, Epipactis latifolia, 

 &c, from Chirnside parish and the adjoining one of Edrom. 

 Also, specimens of fibrous white Gypsum and red Selenite, 

 from Edington Mill ; and a mass of bastard limestone, con- 

 taining a pocket or drusy cavity of crystallized carbonate of 

 lime. 



The weather, from being somewhat doubtful in the morn- 

 ing, now improved ; and the party set out for a walk to the 

 rivers Blackadder and Whitadder. In passing, the gate at 

 Nine- wells was entered, and from the top of the wood a 

 most beautiful peep of the house was obtained, and the 



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