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down towards Canty's Bridge, Solanum dulcamara was 

 noticed in a hedge ; also the wart cress, Coronopus Ruellii, 

 on the ground. Allium arenarium was coming into 

 blossom below the confluence of the rivers. A profusion of 

 Barbarea vulgaris grows at the junction. Owing to the 

 decrease of the waters by the excessive drought, a white 

 bleached line of Ulva, like so much dirty paper, bordered 

 the Tweed on each side in such a manner as it had not done 

 for many years. Geranium pusillum is still to be found in 

 its old situation at Castle Hills. Another locality for it has 

 been discovered in Holy Island. 



Twenty-four dined at the King's Arms Hotel. Mr. James 

 Brown, Kelloe House, and Mr. James Hastie, Edrington 

 Castle, were proposed as members. A notice of a stork, 

 Ciconia alba, shot in a bean-field at Scremerston, on the 

 5th June, was read — written by Mr. J. Scott, Rector of the 

 Corporation Academy, who also sent a rough sketch of the 

 bird. Mr. Milne Home exhibited a copy of the Ordnance 

 Map of Berwickshire, on which he had laid down in colors 

 the parallel ridges and kaims of the district, which nearly 

 all run in one direction, and which he attributed not to 

 glaciers, but to the operations of a sea that had once covered 

 and finally retired from off the face of the country. Mr. 

 Stevenson agreed with Mr. Milne Home in repudiating the 

 glacier theory as being insufficient to explain these appear- 

 ances. Professor Balfour addressed the meeting, and ex- 

 pressed the pleasure he felt in being present ; he ought to 

 have joined the Berwickshire Club long ago. It was the 

 natural descendant of the Plinian Society, with which in 

 his younger days he had been connected as an active 

 member. He liked such walks; they gave a beneficial 

 stimulus to all who could join in them, or meet afterwards 

 and talk over the day's observations or acquisitions. 



The Club held its third meeting on Thursday, July 30th, 

 at St. Abb's Head. The day was highly favourable, and a 

 large assemblage of members and their friends convened : 



