20 Anniversary Address. 



— ground where formerly a statute fair had been wont to be 

 held. The tent in which the Club dined was pitched here, 

 by the side of the stream among shady ashes and lime trees ; and 

 opposite rose a steep hill face, prolific we are told of the uni- 

 versal shepherd's pansy, yellow when grown on peaks, but in- 

 clined to be variegated at humbler altitudes. Some of the mem- 

 bers during the day had ascended Hounam Law ; others had ex- 

 plored the sides of the Capehope Burn. Sedum villosum had been 

 collected in quantity. The Club previously visited the ''Eings" 

 and "Shearers," in July, 1865 : see "Proceedings," vol. v., p. 191. 

 At dinner Dr Eobson-Scott occupied the chair. The following 

 were proposed as members : The Most Honourable the Marquis of 

 Lothian ; Mr John Walker Logan, Avenue, Berwick ; Mr Eichd. 

 Stephenson, Chapel, Dunse. Dr Stuart of Chirnside sent a col- 

 lection of Violas of his own raising ; and a new variety of fox- 

 glove of a pale rose colour, from seed picked in a glen in the 

 Highlands. Dr Eobson-Scott said that the Heronry of Swindean 

 of which he gave an account in 1865, was now deserted, and he 

 was requested to contribute his statement to the " Proceedings." 

 Mr John Thomson spoke of a case of the nidification of the 

 Water Ouzel on Hindhope burn, where a receptacle for sheltering 

 the cock-bird, accompanied the ordinary breeding nest. He also 

 exhibited a silver coin obtained during recent excavations in the 

 neighbourhood of the site of Old Eoxburgh, supposed to be a 

 silver coin of Eobert II. or III., but the inscriptions were very 

 defective. On the obverse within the encircling outline of arose, 

 like that on David II's coins, was a profile looking to the left, of 

 a crowned king, with an upright sceptre in front ; the inscription 



effaced except scot. r. 4- eo Eeverse, a long-limbed cross from 



side to side of the coin : in the centre : villa edinbvrgh, sur- 

 rounding 4 mullets, one in each angle of the cross. The outer 

 legend imperfect, which had been originally : dns protector, ms. 

 ET. LIBERATOR. MS. Dr Eobson-Scott mentioned his having 

 iouudi lEpilohium auguslifolium in some of the cleughs on Carter 

 Fell. The Eev. David Paul communicated that he had found 

 Valeriana dioica on Eoxburgh moor ; and that Radiola millegrana, 

 both this year and last, grew in a pot from peaty soil brought 

 from Sunlaws. He also had an unrecorded station for Botry- 

 chium Lunaria half-way between Eoxburgh and Fairnington, on 

 the grassy margin of the road. Eain began to fall from a local 

 thunderstorm that had been gathering among the hills, but most 



