598 Fates on the Ettrich. By James Hardy. 



Also the original edition of the "Ephemeris" for the year 



1620, byJohnKeppler; dedicated by Keppler to John Napier. 



The examples of the "Numbering Eods " or calculating 



machine, invented by John Napier, one of which is stated, 



on the faith of family tradition, to have belonged to the 



inventor. 



Two portraits of John Napier, one of which is believed to be 



an original done from the life, but much injured by time or 



former neglect. 



Family portraits of no artistic value, but forming a curious 



series, extending from the year 1600 to the present time, 



comprising eleven generations in direct descent ; including 



portraits of General Sir Charles Napier, General Sir William 



Napier the historian, Admiral Sir Charles Napier, and 



other collateral members of the family. 



A portrait of the Emperor Alexander II. of Eussia, presented 



by him to Lord Napier when Ambassador at St. Petersburgh. 



A portrait of the present Emperor of Germany, presented by 



him to Lord Napier when Ambassador at Berlin. 



Early editions of the works of the Eevd. Thomas Boston, 



minister of Ettrick, author of the "Fourfold State,'' the 



" Crook in the Lot," and other books of popular edification." 



The first editions of the works of James Hogg, the Ettrick 



Shepherd. 

 A volume of Autograph Letters about 80 in number, addressed 

 by Sir Walter Scott to the late Anne Jane, Marchioness of 

 Abercorn. 

 An Autograph Letter from the Ettrick Shepherd to the late 

 William John Lord Napier, making overtures of reconcilia- 

 tion to his Lordship, in connection with some offence offered 

 to the family by certain verses in the first edition of the 

 " Queen's Wake." 

 Besides these, and bearing more immediately on the branches 

 of research prosecuted by the Club, there was a very fine long 

 wedge-shaped stone-celt, of the same stone and shape as one 

 figured in Club's Proceedings, vol. viii. Plate x., fig. 2. (1878), 

 found somewhere in the adjacent country ; and a small leaf-shaped 

 arrow-head of pellucid flint, almost like cornelian, prettily 

 chipped, which was picked up (1876) in his Lordship's presence, 

 on a bed of shingle, on the hill-side on the farm of Berry Bush 

 in Ettrick parish. There was also a very good brass-pot with 



