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Spliserum corneum, L. 

 Pisidium pusillum, Z. 

 Succinea putris, L. 

 Planorbis contortus, Z. 

 — nitidus, Mull. 



Limnsea peregra, Mull. 

 Yalvata piscinalis, Mull. 

 cristata, Miill. 



In 1860 (vol IV. pp. 158-9) it was visited by a party of the Club, 

 including Mr Tate, who wrote the account. Three skeletons of 

 red-deer had then been procured, and teeth of the boar. The 

 timber noticed was of birch and hazel. A rib and some vertebrae 

 of red-deer, and a piece of bog-iron ore were collected by the 

 Eev. John Baird. 



This is not the only locality where marl has been deposited on 

 the margins of the great river valleys here. Its presence has 

 also been ascertained near the steading at Humbleton Buildings 

 on the edge of Glendale. Skeletons of bogged red-deer may also 

 be expected elsewhere in the great plain between this and the 

 Tweed. Several years ago I heard of one that had been found 

 by a drainer, in what was called the Milfield plain, although 

 the locality as pointed out was more in the Doddington district, 

 being east of the Till. 



Middleton Hall is enclosed with shady old trees, and is pro- 

 tected by new plantations along the heights from the N.W. wind. 

 The mansion house is modern. The old hall stood at the bottom 

 of the present pleasure ground, where there are two spreading 

 sycamores. There are the foundations of an old fortalice in the 

 adjacent held, the remains of one of the " two stone houses or 

 castells " which were there in 1542, and belonged then to 

 Eobert and John " Eotherforthe. ". The old hall might repre- 

 sent the other. In the garden is a healthy cedar of Lebanon, 

 whose trunk is still on the increase. The height is 34 feet ; girth 

 of the trunk at 1 foot and at 5 feet from the ground is 9 feet 6 

 inches ; the length of the branches from the centre of the tree 

 29+25 feet. Besides larch, Scotch, spruce, and silver firs, Mr 

 Hughes cultivates the following Coniferse successfully : Sequoia 

 gigantea ; Pinus ponderosa, Lambertiana, nohilis, Nordmanniana, 

 magnifica; Abies Menziesi, Williamsom, Douglmi; Lihocedrus 

 decurrens. The seeds, from which several of these were raised, 

 were brought from the Yosemite valley. In the garden there is 

 carefully preserved a clipped pyramidal-shaped beech which has 

 an affecting history. It is intertwined and partly overgrown 

 with a honeysuckle ; and the sprays of an old white rose penetrate 



