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a pellet of quartz stone, covered with lead, of the size of a 

 large marble, which had probably been shot from Norham 

 Castle. Mr Currie produced a drawing of a necklace of jet taken 

 out of a cist on the farm of West Morriston in 1846. This is a 

 simpler ornament, although on the same model, than others figured 

 by the Scottish Society of Antiquaries. Mr Watson handed in 

 some notes on Sir Patrick Hume, and a list of the ministers of 

 Polwarth Church ; and he also exhibited a photograph of the 

 portrait of Sir Patrick Hume, of which the original is at March- 

 mont, and drawings of the mansion house of Eedbraes, of March- 

 mont House, and Polwarth Church. Mr Brotherston distributed 

 examples of Potamogeton Ziezii from Coldside Loch ; and of Crepis 

 succisceifoUa, which he had found in many places in Poxburgh- 

 shire. Scirpus pauciflorus he stated to be not uncommon in Eox- 

 burghshire. Mr Watson brought a specimen of Saxifraga 

 hirculus from the Langton habitat, so that it is fortunately still 

 preserved. 



About thirty gentlemen sat down to dinner in the Castle 

 Hotel, Greenlaw. The following were proposed for member- 

 ship : — Pev. George Gunn, Stitch ell ; Dr Patrick Kynoch, 

 Greenlaw ; Messrs George Anderson, manufacturer, Selkirk ; 

 Thomas Brown, Woodburn, Selkirk ; Palph Dunn, Melrose ; 

 Thomas Fairley, Academy, Galashiels ; Pobert Darling Ker, St. 

 Leonards House, Edinburgh ; William Laidlaw, Eastfield, Gala- 

 shiels ; Hume Nisbet, Studio, 6, Sandwich Place, Edinburgh. 



A combined meeting of the Club, and the Architectural and 

 Archaeological Society of Durham and Northumberland, took 

 place at Durham, on Wednesday, 24th September, which was 

 very numerously attended by members of both Societies, up- 

 wards of 200 having been present at different periods of the day. 

 The Eev. William GreenweU, F.E.8., F.S.A., President of the 

 Archaeological Society, gave in the Cathedral the history of the 

 religious body which ultimately settled at Durham, and having 

 detailed the chronological date connected with the fabric, in a 

 very eloquent address, proceeded to point out the various archi- 

 tectural features of the church. After an interval of three 

 quarters of an hour, Mr GreenweU conducted the re-assembled 

 company to the Library, once the monastic dormitory and re- 

 fectory, where the relics found in the grave of St. Cuthbert, and 

 many valuable and early Manuscripts were inspected. The 



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