Anniversary Address. 13 



A Relic of the Days of our 



FOREFATHERS. 



BY AUCTION, 



T. STAMP, AUCTIONEER, 



On Monday, Feb. the Tlnd, inst. 



NEAR THE CHURCH GATES, 



THE REMAINS OF THE VENERABLE 



BOOME TREE, 



Supposed to have been Planted in the Reign 

 of EDWARD the FOURTH, nearly A:^ Years 

 ago! 



Sale to begin at 2 o'Clock. 



Alnwick, February ISth, 1836. 



The members reassembled at the Star to dinner; after 

 which, the minutes were read, Captain Selby and others were 

 proposed, for election and I was elected President for the en- 

 suing year. 



Mr. George Tate then read a paper upon the Geology of 

 the Fame Islands, now printed in the third volume of our 

 transactions. 



The President, Mr. Embleton, was requested to deliver 

 another address, to bring the routine of the Club into its 

 regular course, from which it had been disturbed by the 

 lamented death of Dr. Johnston. This he readily agreed to 

 do, and to read it at the next meeting ; this was fixed to be at 

 Belford, and the members were specially invited by the Rev. 

 John Dixon Clark to partake of the hospitalities of his mansion 

 on that occasion. 



I may add, with reference to Mr. Tate's paper on the Islands, 

 that they were the patrimony of St. Cuthbert, and one of the 

 most ancient possessions of the church of Lindisfarne, after- 

 wards of Chester-le- Street, and finally of Durham. They 

 continued to be the property of the Prior and Convent of 



