182 Obituary Notices. 



" To the Glory of GOD, and 

 in Affectionate Bemembrance of William Procter, 

 jun., B A., Curate of this Parish, this Brass, with 

 Two Memorial Windows, are dedicated by his Parish- 

 ioners and Friends, 



1874." 



Mr. Procter is a great loss to the Club. He was energetic 

 — a good scholar — a poet of no mean order — and a most 

 willing worker. As a friend and as a pastor he was 

 generally beloved. He was not sufficiently long con- 

 nected with the Club to do more than he has accomplished. 

 He has left us a very complete account of his native 

 parish, at vol vi., p. 146 of the " Proceedings," and he had 

 commenced a similar sketch of Chatton, which he did not 

 live to elaborate. Two of his sermons have been printed 

 for private circulation. Mr. Procter had bestowed no little 

 time and attention on a subject to which the Club has 

 devoted some of the best of its pages — the British rock 

 markings, which are so numerously scattered among the 

 rocks in the hilly tracts round Doddington. The sites of 

 these he had proposed to lay down on the Ordnance map, to 

 serve as a permanent index. It may not be known to the 

 Club the pain's he took for the preservation of the best of 

 these rude monuments, by having them protected from the 

 atmosphere ; and this done in such a manner that the cover- 

 ing of light sods might easily be withdrawn when inspection 

 was necessary. If he could supply any information to his 

 friends, he spared no exertion in procuring it for them. 



Heney Stephens, Esq., F.R.S.E., &c. 

 Mr. Henry Stephens, the eminent agricultural writer, 

 died at Redbrae Cottage, Bonnington, Edinburgh, July 5th, 

 1874, aged 80. Mr. Stephens was one of the few old 

 members of the Club who still continued to take an interest 

 in its operations, having been elected 12th September, 1849. 

 He joined the Club when visiting the district as a Drainage 

 Commissioner ; an early and very important part of his 

 life having been passed in Berwickshire. While still young 

 Mr. Stephens betook himself to agriculture with the utmost 

 enthusiasm, and to the last his devotion to his favourite 

 topic never intermitted. In the early editions of his "Book 

 of the Farm," he narrates that after receiving a liberal 

 education at the parochial and grammar schools of Dundee, 



