Report of Meetings for 1879, by James Hardy. 19 



Falcon, which, had been shot on the 8th May by John Hakin, 

 near Leithohn, under rather peculiar circumstances. Hakin 

 makes his living by shooting wood- pigeons, and uses a stuffed 

 pigeon as a decoy. On the day named the decoy was on the 

 ground, when the peregrine swooped down and knocked it to 

 pieces — Hakin in his turn giving the peregrine its quietus. In 

 a few days it woidd have been laying. Mr Alexander Leitch, 

 Fairneyside, brought to the meeting a large bronze celt, from 

 Hoselaw, Eoxburghshire, corresponding with one already figured 

 in the Proceedings ; and a fine celt of green slate, described in 

 last vol., from Longy ester in East Lothian. He had also intended 

 to have exhibited two good examples of betrothal silver rings in 

 his possession, which I have since seen. The one is broad and 

 strong, and has two hands clasped, and round its circuit a series 

 of capital letters of an antique character on separate flat pannels, 

 which read IHESVS N. This was from the vicinity of Dunbar. 

 There are similar rings in the museum of the Society of Anti- 

 quaries of Scotland ; one of a plain hoop of silver has the in- 

 scription in full IHESYS NAZAEENVS ; another with pannels 

 has only IHESYS.''^ Mr Leitch's second ring is a plain narrow 

 hoop-ring, with the device of a convex heart, flanked by two 

 quatrefoils marked with crosses, the arched footstalks of which 

 issue from the top of the heart. Above the heart are two per- 

 forations, by which it might be suspended, when not worn on the 

 finger. It was picked up on Flodden field. A guilloche hoop- 

 ring of silver gilt, with almost the same device, found at Eing- 

 wood, was in 1864 exhibited to the British Archseological Asso- 

 ciation.! 



Extracts were read from a number of letters received in 

 answer to inquiries regarding the effects of the past winter on 

 animal and vegetable life. In the course of conversation. Sheriff 

 EusseU remarked that salmon were spawning up to the begin- 

 ning of May. S 



The following were duly proposed and seconded as members 

 of the Club : — Eev. Adam Spence, Houndwood ; Messrs Peter 

 Cowe, Lochton ; James Q-reenfield, Eeston ; James Mein, 

 Lamberton ; and George SkeUy, Alnwick. 



* Catalogue of Antiq. in Mus. Soc. of Ant. of Scotland, p. 157 ; see also 

 Cat. of Antiq. &c., in Mus. of Archseolog. Institute, Edinr. 1856, p. 128. 

 t Wood's "Wedding Day in All Ages, &c., ii. p. 143-4. 



