280 Eeport of Meetings. By James Hardy. 



of far-transported greywacke occur among the gravel on the 

 opposite side of the Caldgate. 



Few symptoms of the approach of autumn were as yet manifest. 

 The ferny covering of the end of the Sneer had acquired a sickly 

 yellow tinge ; and a ruddy-leaved mountain ash, like an outburst 

 of fire, streamed up amidst the as yet untarnished hazels and 

 birches. The extensive alder clumps still maintained unbroken 

 their deep green masses of colour. 



In the interval after the rain the rush of waters was audible 

 on every side. Temporary torrents rushed violently down the 

 steeps, and inundated the meadows. The augmented middle 

 stream, moss-coloured and accelerated, broke high against the 

 obstructive stones, or foamed around the rocky banks. A com- 

 bination of infuriated water-falls, in one lengthened white streak 

 dashed wildly down the precipitous ravine above Langlee. 

 The water-crow rejoiced in the aqueous commotion. Half-way 

 up, three long-shaped, narrow, light brown birds, were seen at a 

 distance, believed to be white-throats. A wren was also visible. 

 There was little else noticeable. A fresh red-admiral butterfly 

 ( Vanessa atalanta, L) was abroad. There was a good crop of 

 Fungi on the flats. We got within sight of Langleyford house, 

 end its sombre fir wood ; and in the far distance, the birchen 

 groves on the hill-sides beyond were visible. But a rain cloud that 

 gathered about the peak of Hedgehope, dashed suddenly across 

 the bulky Housy Crag, and swept down into the valley. This 

 renewal of the blast deterred us from penetrating farther for the 

 day. 



The entomology of the valley and its sides has been pretty 

 exhaustively treated in the Club's " Proceedings," except the 

 Lepidoptera, which require some one to be stationary in the 

 vicinity for a week or two. It is to be hoped that some of our 

 energetic young members will soon undertake this acceptable 

 service. 



Meantime two other members, Mr Eobert Weddell and Mr 

 William Wilson, Berwick, had arrived at the hall. After 

 luncheon, the Club was constituted, and theEev. John Edmunds, 

 Kyloe Yicarage, was proposed as a member. The President 

 read a paper on the Palaeontology of the Glendale valley, illus- 

 trating it with the fine examples of Eed Deer antlers, and a horn 

 of the Urus {Bos i^rimigenius, Boj.) that had been obtained in his 

 father's time, from the marl in Cresswell Moss, on the estate 



