232 Amiitersary Address. 



Mr. Murray, the Secretary of tlie Hawick Arcliseological 

 Society. 



After dinner, the minutes of last meeting were read, and 

 the Rev. Edward "Wilkinson, of Bambro, and Dr. Robert 

 Clay, now at Chatham, were elected members ; and the fol- 

 lowing were nominated for membership, viz. — Mr. G. J. 

 Williamson, Thames Street, London, Mr. J. A. H. Murray, 

 Hawick, Dr. Chas. Douglas, Kelso, Dr. John Mackenzie, 

 Kelso, Mr. James Patterson, Berwick, and Professor Camp- 

 bell Swinton, Kimmergham, Dunse. 



A letter from Dr. Thomson, of London, one of the oldest 

 members of the club, was read, suggesting that daily meteor- 

 ological observations should be made at Berwick, which is 

 about the centre of the district embraced by the club ; the 

 meeting fully appreciated the value of the suggestion, and 

 finding on enquiry that such observations are now regularly 

 made with proper instruments at Berwick, Mr. Robert Home 

 was requested to give the subject his attention, with the view 

 of procuring an annual record for publication in our transac- 

 tions. 



The peculiar and almost unique wild cattle of Chilling- 

 ham were brought under the consideration of the meeting, in 

 consequence of Mr. C. Darwin, the celebrated naturalist, 

 having made enquiry respecting their rate of increase, in order 

 to compare their history with that of the wild cattle of the 

 Falkland Islands and South America. Statistical information 

 regarding them is at present however not sufficiently exact 

 for scientific purposes. It was thought that if a proper record 

 were kept of their births, sexes, deaths, causes of death, and 

 of the calves born (if any) differing from the normal type, 

 with a brief description of such differences, there would be 

 obtained, in the course of about a dozen years, information 

 which would be interesting both to the naturalist and agri- 

 culturalist. Mr. Tate was therefore authorized to bring this 

 subject before the attention of the Earl of Tankerville. 



The Rev. J. D. Clark reported that Strix passerina — the 

 Little Owl — had been caught at Spittleford, near Embleton ; 



