16 Anniversary Address. 



The tall red lighthouse, where the dauntless maid 



Her feats of daring in the sea perform'd. 



Whilst all these scenes, the circling horizon, 



Incloses in the whole, as in a frame, 



Well gilded by the evening setting sun. 

 The first meeting under my Presidency was held at Belford 

 Hall, on Wednesday the 29th of October. It was of an ex- 

 ceptional nature, being by special invitation from the Rev. J. 

 D. Clark to each member to breakfast and dine with him. 

 The Club broke through one of their rules, to accept of the hos- 

 pitality of one, who had been their President in 1845, and 

 always an active member of the Society. They certainly 

 were entertained by him in a right splendid manner. The 

 members present were, Robert Embleton, (the Secretary), P. 

 J. Selby, Dr. Clarke, Rev. J. D. Clark, David Macbeath, 

 John Boyd, William Dickson, (President for the year), Rev. 

 George Rooke, H. Gregson, Major Elliott, Patrick Clay, 

 George Tate, Rev. L. S. Orde, W. H. Logan, John Church, 

 William Dickson, the younger. Dr. G. R. Tate, William 

 Boyd, Dr. George Douglas, Rev. George Hans Hamilton, 

 Charles Rea, R. G. Huggup, John Church, jun., Captain 

 George Selby, R.N., Lieutenant Patrick Johnston, R.N., 

 and Stephen Fryar Gillum, (as a visitor.) 



The founder of our Club, the late Dr. Johnston, contempla- 

 ted publishing the Natural History of the Eastern Borders, 

 comprising the district in which our Society has laboured, 

 viz., ^"^ Berwickshire^ Liberties of Berwick, North Durham^ 

 and the immediately adjacent parts of Northumberland and 

 Roxburghshire.'^ He lived to complete one interesting 

 volume, " The Botany of the Eastern Borders'' ; to which 

 is added his Lecture read to the Mechanics' Institute of Ber- 

 wick, in 1851, entitled " Our Wild Flowers in relation to our 

 Pastoral Life." The same volume contains the valuable 

 paper entitled " The Fossal Flora of the Mountain Lime- 

 stone Formation of the Eastern Borders, in connection 

 with the Natural History of Coal," by Mr. George Tate, one 

 of our most enthusiastic Members. 



