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village was at that time bleak and naked, though not so 

 now. He told me how the child had begged of him to let 

 her be laid at Embleton, for there were " nae bonny trees " 

 at Rennington ; and he carefully saw to her wish. He, too, 

 has now been gathered in his earthly form, beneath the fair 

 elms and sycamores beside the Church where he ministered 

 for more than forty years. Let us be thankful for the 

 memories he has left us — simple, endearing, and sterling as 

 his own friendships of the past. 



Ralph Carr-Ellison. 



Mr. John Charles Langlands. 

 The death of our late friend, Mr. J. C. Langlands, was 

 noticed at our last anniversary meeting, but as it will be a 

 gratification to members to have preserved a more detailed 

 memorial of one so much regarded, the following notes have 

 been prepared. 



When a youth of seventeen, Mr. Langlands went to study 

 farming with Mr. Jobson at Chillingham Newtown ; and 

 in 1823 he became the tenant of Old Bewick, where he 

 continued to reside till his death, 11th March, 1874. He was 

 elected a member of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club at 

 the meeting held at Yetholm, on the 25th June, 1857, and 

 he continued to the last to be one of the most regular 

 attendants of its meetings. He was elected President of the 

 Club for 1859 ; and in his address delivered in September 

 of that year, he gave much instructive information on the 

 history of the Priory at Coldingham, and the early ecclesi- 

 astical sites on the neighbouring rocky headland, while in 

 some of his concluding remarks we can trace his taste for 

 natural history and his habits of careful observation. In 

 May, 1866, the Club held a meeting at Eglingham and Old 

 Bewick, when Mr. Langlands read a paper on the " History 

 and Natural History of Old Bewick," which may be com- 

 mended as a model of cautious statement and careful 

 research. On this occasion he had to guide the members to 

 two remains at Old Bewick, both of which had long been 

 objects of interest to him in different ways, namely, the 

 sculptured rocks on the summit of the hill and the Norman 

 Chapel at its base. We should not have learned from the 

 remarks which Mr. Langlands made on the former that the 

 sculptures had attracted his attention about forty years 

 before, and that, as Mr. Tate has recorded in his memoir on 



