Anniversary Address. 371 



Ralph Carr-Ellison. At one of our Meetings, Sir Walter Elliot 

 suggested that Members should contribute at their own ex- 

 pense, lithographs or photographs of celebrated Border Trees. 

 Should this seem desirable, I should submit that a small 

 Committee be elected to carry out the wishes of the Club. 



I also think the Club might do something more in the 

 way of Meteorology. At present there are only two returns 

 of rain, one from Glanton, the other from North Sunderland, 

 and through the kind perseverance of Mr Collingwood and 

 Mr. Simpson, we have been indebted to them for the rain- 

 fall for a number of years. Records of temperature of a 

 remarkable character might be kept, but great care should 

 be taken in the selection of good instruments. Again a 

 small committee might be chosen, to draw up a code of laws 

 for observers, as to the position of instruments, rain gauge, 

 theimometers, barometers, wind gauge, height above the 

 ground, &c, and these might be recorded in a systematic 

 way each year. I may here observe that I never suffered 

 so much in my garden from frost as I did last winter. I 

 lost entirely the following shrubs : —Rosemary, Garrya 

 elliptica, Ceanothus Lobii, 12 feet high on a south wall ; 

 Lauristinus, Gum Cistus. Those killed to the root but 

 have recovered were Sweet Bay and Euonymus Japonica. 



I am not sure whether Books have ever been presented 

 to the Club, or presents of any kind. If so, where would 

 be the most suitable place to deposit them ? There is I 

 believe a Museum at Berwick, would not this be a fit place 

 for all presents to be placed ? Were there a fit place to 

 deposit them, in all probability many objects of curiosity 

 and interest might be sent there for the benefit of the 

 Members of the Club and of the public. There is another 

 object I have long had in view and which I have begun 

 myself, that is to write an account of the parish where one 

 resides. A good deal of such work would necessarily fall 

 to the lot of the clergyman of the parish. On mentioning 

 this subject at our meeting at East Linton, I was told that 



