490 Ue^port of Meeting. By the President. 



The usual dinner took place at the King's Arms Hotel, at 3 

 o'clock, and was attended by 35 gentlemen, the President in the 

 chair. 



In proposing " success to the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club," 

 he expressed his satisfaction that the Club had adopted as new 

 Pules the suggestions which that day had been submitted, that 

 the discussion upon them had been so amicable, and sincerely 

 trusted that they would be found to act beneficially. They 

 desired for the Club as an institution what they desired for every 

 member of it, the "mens sana in corpore sano " ; they desired 

 that the investigation of the Natural History and Antiquities of 

 our Border Land should be carried on with spirit and interest. 

 They should not imagine that because so much work had been 

 done, because their Proceedings showed such ample records, that 

 there was nothing more to do. The new railway would open up 

 " fresh fields and pastures new"; but the book of Nature had 

 endless leaves. Many could observe something, could write a 

 short paper for the Club, and so on, and there were always indi- 

 vidual tastes to be cultivated and improved, and knowledge to be 

 acquired, by the opportunities and the associations and the 

 companionships which the Club afi'orded. 



During the day Mrs Barwell Carter, with her accustomed 

 courtesy, received members at her house in Woolmarket, where 

 her distinguished father, the founder of the Club, lived and died. 

 Many very interesthig records of him and of Mrs Johnston, and 

 of their joint labours in the cause of natural science, are, on these 

 occasions, always on view, which are supplemented by the beau- 

 tiful paintings of wild flowers by Miss Dickinson of Norham, 

 whose delineations of our Flora have secured for her a place in 

 the very first rank of floral artists. 



Several members brought to the meeting objects of interest 

 for inspection. 



Mr Walby of Alnwick : a beautifully preserved collection by 

 Mr A. Amory, of Algce. from the Northumbrian coast. Eev. David 

 Paul : a very perfect celt of indurated slate, about 5| inches by 

 2^ and 1 inches broad, turned up ten or twelve years ago, by a 

 ploughman on the farm of Marlfield, 2 miles from Morebattle, 

 Eoxburghshire. The President : a good specimen of Filograna 

 implexa, Berld., one of the Serpulse ; and a specimen of the car- 

 boniferous Limestone fossil-Polyp, Lithostrotion probably has- 

 altiforme, both of which were fished up oflt the Berwick coast, 



