226 Anniversary Address. 



mittees receiving grants of money, by men of eminence in 

 nearly every phase of science. Its yearly reports furnish a 

 chronicle of the march of scientific discovery. 



With a much smaller number of members, and a limited 

 field for exploration, the original work of the Berwickshire 

 Naturalists' Club reflects credit, from its first formation, on 

 the active and educated naturalists who have at all times 

 leavened its body. Johnston, Selby, Jardine, Tate, and 

 Baird have left works which have taken a place among the 

 standard Natural History literature of the age. Others, 

 equally distinguished, have become eminent in the general 

 field of scientific investigation ; and some are yet among us 

 whose labour and success as explorers entitle them to rank 

 among the leading pioneers into the yet unexhausted recesses 

 of British Cryptogamic and Entomological life. Without 

 trespassing on the privilege of two of our botanists to fur- 

 nish us with the particulars of two important discoveries, I 

 may observe that at the Holy Island meeting of this year, a 

 meeting deserving to be remembered for the brilliant variety 

 of the flora culled from the spring tide margin of its sandy 

 beach, one member was fortunate in collecting specimens of 

 the CaJdle rugosa, hitherto unregistered in any work on 

 British Botany. . The Garex divisa, a plant seldom hitherto 

 collected north of the Yorkshire coast was culled by another 

 from the sandy flat to the N.W. of the Island. 



In the report prepared by our learned and obliging Secre- 

 tary, Mr Hardy, you are likely to get a thorough detail of 

 the Holy Island and other meetings of the year. I regret 

 to say that climatic influences, caused the field work of our 

 Club this season, to be more than usually limited, but zeal- 

 ous members have gone over the ground intended for the 

 meetings and have made fair botanical quests. Never in 

 my remembrance has florescence been more gorgeous, or 

 longer sustained, than the past summer and the herbarium 

 of the botanist must be replenished with a choice collection 

 of fresh rarities. 



The intended meeting at Wooler, not unlike that at Aber- 

 lady, was a blank. From early morning rain descended 



