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moss, to be found here, are remarkably beautiful, both as to 

 colour and luxuriance and — if endowed with " a keen crypto- 

 gamic eye" — the fructification, which is rare, may occasionally 

 be detected, by the patient observer. The only other plant 

 worthy of botanical notice seen in our walk, was the Vicia 

 sylvatica, not yet in flower, which hung in festoons over the 

 precipitous rocks at Edington Mill. This is one of the finest 

 of our native plants, and Sir W. Scott writes describing its 

 beauties — 



Its pale and azure pencilled flower 

 Should canopy Titania's bower.' 



" Several excellent sections of the Tuedian or lower carbo- 

 niferous group of rocks were examined, especially the sand- 

 stone quarry at Edington Mill which contains plants, ento- 

 mostraca and fish; and the bold cliff* below Hutton Hall 

 where beds of sandstone, marly limestone, and shales with 

 veins of selenite (or crystallized sulphate of lime) furnish a 

 good type of this group of rocks. 



The Rev. J. D. Clark gathered the Carpinus betulus, or 

 Hornbeam, in the White Hall woods, where, however, it has 

 been introduced by planting. 



A few beetles were taken by Mr. Wm. Boyd, viz., Clivina 

 coUaris, Byrrhus fasciates, Cryptohypnus quadripustulatus, 

 Mecinus semicylindricus and Quedius ruficoUis. After dinner 

 he also showed to the club a good collection of Beetles from 

 Hetton ; and several specimens of Acmea testudinalis found 

 by him at Spittal, near Berwick. 



Two excellent papers were read and listened to with great 

 interest ; one from Mr. John Stuart, F.A.S., Edinburgh, on 

 Chirnside, and the other on Hutton Hall, by Dr. Stuart. 



The Rev. Mr. Green, of Wooler, and Dr. Alexander, of 

 Wooler, were elected members ; and the Rev. Wm. Dodd, of 

 Chillingham, Mr. Robert Douglas, of Berwick, and Dr. 

 M'Watt, of Dunse, were proposed. 



This the first meeting of the year was felt by all to have 

 been pleasant and instructive; the day was favourable, the 

 scenery passed through was beautiful, and the several objects 

 visited gave rise to agreeable conversation and discussion." 



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