268 Report of Meetings. By James Hardy. 



Gordon ; Messrs W. B. Boyd, Faldonside ; Jolin Congalton, 

 Aberlady ; A. H. Evans, Scremerston ; William H. Johnson, 

 Edinburgh ; George Heriot Stevens, Gullane ; and John Turn- 

 bull, Abbey St Bathans. 



Subsequent to this visit, Mr W. Boyd and I made an examina- 

 tion of the coast from Luffness to Dirleton, finding Utrimlaria 

 vulgaris in flower at the ponds, and some curious varieties of a 

 Carex, perhaps not different from arenaria. This is an early 

 tract, and we were too late in the season. The whole coast, 

 however, from Longniddry to Archerfield, has been perambulated 

 by members of the Club this season. We saw the gardens at 

 Archerfield and Dirleton. It was a beautiful day and we were 

 rewarded with many fine prospects. 



The brown, orange-banded caterpillars of Euclielia JacoboRm were 

 very numerous this season on the links, and bared the ragwort 

 leaves to the stumps. On the roads at Gullane one could not 

 walk without crushing some of them. 



ST. mart's loch. 



A meeting of nearly forty members for St. Mary's Loch, on 

 Wednesday, August 29th, was an agreeable surprise, after the 

 rain of the preceding day - and evening, and the lugubrious 

 looking morning. A great stock of waterproofs and umbrellas 

 had been provided to avert rain, but fortunately the dripping 

 mists drew up at the hour of starting from Selkirk, and those 

 acquainted with the district averred that Yarrow had rarely been 

 visited under more auspicious skies. Among the hills, as the com- 

 plement to a previous day of rain, the features of the landscape 

 acquire the utmost distinctness, . the distant view becomes 

 enlarged, and there is a pervading sobriety favourable to obser- 

 vation. 



The wooded portion of the vale of Yarrow, with its renowned 

 battle-field— its ruined tower, resort of royal hunters, feudal 

 chiefs and vassal "menyie," and more than once begirt with a 

 besieging foe ; — and its famous dwellings, high and lowly, re- 

 plete with historical, biographical and poetical associations ; scenes 

 also where 



" Yarrow in her sounding sweep 

 By rock aud ruin raves and rushes ;" 

 having been visited by the Club on very recent occasions, the 

 new ground which it was about to enter upon, commences about 

 Lewenshope. Still we are not yet so familiar here, as to know 



