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The following were proposed as members of tlie Club : — The 

 Eev. Canon Tristram, Durham ; Eev. D. MiUar, B.D., LL.B., 

 Mordington; Mr Thomas Cook, Alnwick; Mr Charles Henry 

 Adamson, North Jesmond, Newcastle ; Dr Alexander Mackenzie, 

 Kelso ; and Mr W. F. Vernon, Kelso. 



The third meeting was held at Alnmouth and Alnwick, on 

 Wednesday, July 30th. Those present were — Dr Paxton, Presi- 

 dent ; Mr Hardy, Secretary; the Hon. and Eev. Evelyn J. 

 Monson, vicar of Croft, Lincolnshire ; Eevs. Thomas Ilderton, 

 Hderton; Ambrose Jones, Stannington ; F. B. Nunnely, M.D., 

 Eock and Eennington ; W. Eudge, Alnwick ; F. E. Simpson, 

 North Sunderland ; William Stobbs, Gordon ; George Selby 

 Thomson, Acklington ; and E. Hopper Williamson, Whickham ; 

 Lieut. -Col. Briggs, Bonjedward ; Major Holland, Abbey Cot- 

 tage, Alnwick ; Capt. Forbes, E.N., Berwick ; Messrs James 

 Aitchison, Alnwick; Thomas Allan, Horncliffe House; Henry 

 Hunter Blair, Alnwick ; Charles B. PuUeine Bosanquet, Eock ; 

 Cadogan Hodgson Cadogan of Brenckburn Priory ; L. C Chrisp, 

 Hawkhill; WiUiam Currie of Linthill ; Middleton H. Dand, 

 Hauxley ; John Dunlop, Berwick ; Albert Grey, Howick Hall ; 

 James Hastie, Edrington ; William Hastie, London ; James 

 Heatley, Alnwick ; W. T. Hindmarsh, Alnwick ; W. A. Hunter, 

 Dunse ; G. T. Lebour, F.G.S., Gateshead ; Henry A. Paynter, 

 Alnwick ; Adam Eobertson and William Eobertson, Alnwick ; I. 

 Simpson, North Sunderland ; Septimus H. Smith, Norham ; 

 Thomas -Tate, Alnwick ; John Thomson, Kelso ; William Topley, 

 F.G.S., Alnwick ; J. P. TurnbuH, Alnwick. 



As the President and Secretary bent their way to the place of 

 rendezvous, it was noticed that at Alnmouth Bridge, a colony of 

 sand-martins had established themselves in the stratified earth- 

 cUff adjoining. Black-headed guUs were actively fishing, or 

 picking up food, along the course of the Aln. A corn-bunting 

 (a locally distributed bird) trilled its song from a tree. An in- 

 scription on one side of the substantial stone bridge informs us 

 that this is "The Duchess-Bridge," the date being 1864. On 

 the other side, it is recorded on a cast-iron plate that "To 

 Eleanor Duchess of Northumberland, the Public are chiefly in- 

 debted for this Stone Bridge and Foot-path to the Station. 

 A.D. MDCCCLXIV." Almost the first house in Alnmouth 

 arrests attention by a door with an ogee moulding, over which 



