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cases being quite or nearly flat, in others hemispherical ; and 

 some, as in the one before the meeting, seem to have had a 

 slight edge raised around the lower stone ; while in later ex- 

 amples this is so enlarged, as to make the lower a sort of 

 trough in which the upper moved. 



That this is of Roman origin is proved by the material — a 

 sort of trachyte from a quarry on the Rhine, and from which 

 all the Roman ones were procured. 



The members will remember a specimen of the stone from 

 this quarry, lying by the window on the lower floor of the 

 Romano-British Museum at Alnwick Castle, and will recog- 

 nize its identity with the Quern now before them. 



This Quern was found at Berwick in 1855. While the 

 drainage operations were being prosecuted, an out-fall was 

 made a little to the north-west of the flag-staff by directing a 

 tunnel through the walls and adjoining gardens, a distance 

 of about 55 yards, and about 60 feet from the shore ; and at 

 a depth of IS feet from the surface, a mass of large boulder 

 stones had to be removed, and with these stones the Quern 

 before the meeting was brought to the shore. Circum- 

 stances prevented its removal at the time, and on my return 

 some time afterwards, no trace of it could be found. On the 

 S9th of August last, when passing along the shore accom- 

 panied by Mr. Murray of Hawick, it was again discovered 

 within a few yards of the spot where, six years ago, it had 

 been laid aside with scrupulous care for preservation. 



We have therefore I believe, in the stone before us, a relic 

 of the Legionaries of Italy, and from other evidences in our 

 neighbourhood, there is a strong probability that Berwick 

 occupies the site of one of their ancient stations on the banks 

 of the Tueda. 



Obituary Notice of the Rev. John Baird, of Yetholm. 

 By Robert Embleton. 



It is with deep regret, that I have to report to the club, the 

 death of one of its original founders, the Rev. John Baird, of 

 Yetholm. He was the eldest son of the Rev. James Baird, 

 and was born at the manse of Eccles, in the year 1798, and 

 died at Yetholm, on the 29th of November, 1861, in the 63rd 

 year of his age. He received the first rudiments of his edvica- 

 tion at home, and subsequently attended the Grammar School 

 at Kelso ; from thence he proceeded to the University of 



