Anniversary Address. 3 



Witla reference to our meetings of this year, I shall say 

 very little, as Mr Hardy has made copious notes, some of 

 which he will read to us to-day ; and these in a more ex- 

 tended form, you will be able to peruse in our next number. 

 I will only mention that although the summer was so exces- 

 sively wet, we were fortunate enough to encounter on one 

 day only rain enough to hinder us from carrying out our 

 programme. 



I cannot omit referring to the courteous reception of the 

 members of the Club at the different places visited. 

 Especially ought we to send a vote of thanks to Canon 

 Green well, the President, and Captain White, the Secretary 

 of the Northumberland and Durham Archaeological Society, 

 for all their kind endeavours to entertain us; to Canon 

 Greenwell also for his lecture, and Mr Longstaffe for his 

 paper on Durham Castle, which we were sorry he could not 

 read to us himself, as well as to his capital substitute. Canon 

 Ornsby, who came forward at a moment's notice, that we 

 should not be disappointed. I am sure the Durham meeting 

 will remain with those of us who had the good fortune to 

 be there, as a pleasant memory to the last day of our lives. 



It was in September, 1831, that this Club held its first 

 meeting at Grant's House. As 1881 will be its jubilee year, 

 I would suggest that the September meeting of that year 

 should be held at the same place, and that we should en- 

 deavour to have one of our oldest members as President. It 

 would be very interesting to hear from the lips of such a 

 one, his reminiscences of the early meetings and some of the 

 unwritten traditions of the Club. 



In the Scotsman of Friday, the 12th September, appeared 

 a notice of our last number, evidently written by one who 

 has a thorough taste for our pursuits, and who seems to be 

 well acquainted with Roxburghshire. There are two 

 passages in that article I should like to quote to you. In 

 the first he says, " is anything in this world better than m- 

 nocent enjoyment in a loved companionship ? Some men 

 gravely concerned in helping the world from running ofi" the 



