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comprising, the President, Dr. Kobson Scott ; Dr. Francis 

 Douglas and Mr. Jas. Hardy, Secretaries ; Sir Walter Elliot ; 

 Drs. R. Hood, Charles Stuart, and Charles Douglas ; Revs. 

 P. G. McDouall, J. S. Green, J. Irwin, J. F. Bigge, W. L. J. 

 Cooley, W. Stobbs, A. Davidson, D. Paul, P. Mackerron, 

 Evan Rutter, and Beverley S. Wilson ; Captain F. M. 

 Norman, R.N. ; Captain Gandy ; Messrs. D. Milne Home, 

 Robert Crossman, John B. Boyd, W. Stevenson, W. B. Boyd, 

 Middleton H. Dand, W. Chartres, F. Russell, jun., Thomas 

 Allan, Robert Romanes, Thomas Broomfield, Geo. L. Paulin, 

 James Wood, A. Brotherston, F. Walker, R. Mitchell Innes, 

 J. T. S. Doughty, James Brown, J. E. Stuart, Chas. Bigge, 

 P. W. T. Warren, W. Thorburn, W. Playfair, and R. Fender. 

 After breakfast at the Anchor Inn, Coldingham, the 

 members arranged themselves in three divisions. A party 

 of botanists beginning at Milldean explored the coast as far 

 as Coldingham Lough. They found an example of Ranun- 

 culus hirsutus in a corn-field, and Potamogeton jiliformis 

 in quantity near the edge of the Lough, a well-known 

 habitat of the plant. Nwphar lutea was blooming in profu- 

 sion at the time of this visit. A second party, conducted 

 by Mr. Milne Home, began at the Lough and made their 

 way eastwards towards Coldingham shore. They visited 

 the British Camps near the Lough, where the outlines 

 of very perfect hut circles are discernible on one side, and 

 an open space for cattle on the upper half ; and some 

 outer works and walls, perhaps of old folds, on the north-east. 

 They then proceeded to the double camp at Earnsheugh, 

 where the cattle or flocks had a separate camp to themselves, 

 in which there are no traces of the hut circles so prominent 

 in the others. This double camp lies at the verge of a 

 tremendous precipice on one of the highest cliffs of that wild 

 coast. On the heights east of the lake, the rocks lie in 

 separate, narrow, parallel, sharp ridges, with flat vale-like 

 intervals, looking as if the projecting portions had been able 

 to resist the excavating influences which had operated more 



