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CIA. EEXS. On the reverse: in an orle of six crescents em- 

 bracing- a quatrefoil and terminating in fleur-de-lis, a St. 

 Andrew's Cross with I on the centre, between two fleur-de- 

 lis : +8ALVVI. (2 crosses) FACPOPVLVS. (a fleur-de-lis) 

 TYYRONE (a fleur-de-lis). This blundered inscription for 

 SALYYM. FAC. POPYLYM. TYYM. DNE., is recorded in Lind- 

 say's Coinage of Scotland, p. 160, from a coin in the British 

 Museum. I give the divisions of the lettering as on the example 

 submitted to me, and not as in Lindsay. This I believe will be 

 placed in Berwick Museum. 



A third coin, a plack of Mary Queen of Scots in billon, was 

 found in digging potatoes at Holy Island. It corresponds with 

 a figure in Lindsay's plate 16, No. 30. It is thus technically 

 described in Lindsay's Scottish Coinage, p. 197. Obverse 

 -fMARIA. U. G-. EEOINA. SCOTOEY. Thistle head crowned 

 with an arched crown between M. and E. Cross M.M. Eeverse : 

 OPPIDYM. EDINBUEGE. A plain St. Andrew's cross 

 through an open crown between two cinquefoils. Fleur-de-lis 

 M.M. This belongs to Mrs Lumsden, Castle Heaton. 



A fourth coin picked up this year in a field near the Pease 

 sands, on the track of the old Berwick and Edinburgh road may 

 also be recorded here. It is a hardhead of Queen Mary, a minute 

 copper coin. It is figured in Lindsay, plate 17, p. 42. Obverse : 

 +MAEIA. D. G. SCOTTOE. EEGINA. M (with a ball or dot 

 over it) crowned in the field. Cross Potent M.M. Eeverse : 

 YICIT YEEITAS. 1551. Lion rampant crowned. 



ABEELADY. 



The third meeting for the year 1883 was held at Aberlady on 

 Wednesday, 25th July. Owing to the threatening condition of 

 the weather, or other causes, only a limited party participated in 

 the privileges accorded to this meeting and the advantages it 

 offered for botanical and zoological, as well as antiquarian, 

 investigation. Unfortunately, the auguries respecting the state 

 of the weather were realised ; and the sudden death of a relative 

 in the hotel keeper's house at Aberlady necessitated the trans- 

 ference of the meeting to Haddington in the afternoon. Mr 

 Clark, however, had engaged conveyances, which accommodated 

 all present, who suffered no other inconvenience than a slight 

 wetting. Up to eleven o'clock the day was favourable, and the 

 party availed themselves of this to visit the grounds at Gosford, 

 for which the Earl of Wemyss had granted permission. They 



