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M.P., of Paxton ; Eevs. Jolin F. Bigge, Stamfordham ; William 

 Dobie, Ladykirk ; John S. Green, Wooler ; Hastings M. Neville, 

 Ford ; Jobn Orr, Berwick ; John George Eowe, Berwick ; Evan 

 Eutter, Tweedmouth ; Joshua Hill Scott, Kelso ; E. Hopper 

 Williamson, Whickham ; Beverley S. Wilson, Duddo ; Drs 

 Colville Brown, Berwick ; Charles Douglas, Kelso ; Henry 

 Eichardson, E.N., Berwick; Oapt. J. A. Forbes, Berwick; 

 Messrs E. G. Bolam and George Bolam, Berwick ; C. B. P. 

 Bosanquet, Eock ; Andrew Brotherston, Kelso ; Thos. Chartres, 

 Ayton ; William Cunningham, Coldstream ; Thomas Darling, 

 Berwick ; John Dunlop, Berwick ; Charles Erskine, Melrose ; 

 James Greenfield, Eeston ; Henry Gregson, yr., Lowlynn ; James 

 B. Kerr, Kelso ; E. D. Ker, Edinburgh ; Geo. Muirhead, Pax- 

 ton ; James Nicholson, Murton ; James Purves, Berwick ; Stanley 

 Hill Scott, Kelso ; William Shaw, Gunsgreen ; Septimus H. 

 Smith, Norham ; William Stevenson, Dunse ; Alan Swinton, 

 Swinton House ; John Thomson, Kelso ; W. F. Vernon, Kelso ; 

 Charles Watson, Dunse ; Matthew Young, Berwick. 



At Mrs Carter's residence, among other interesting objects not 

 previously viewed by members, there were MSS of Burns's 

 "Lines written in Friars-Carse Hermitage," both versions ; his 

 "Literary Scoldings and Hints" with the originals of three 

 of Burns's letters to Mr William Cruikshanks, of the High 

 School, Edinburgh, which were exhibited by the Eev. James 

 Henderson, vicar of Ancroft, the grandson of the poet's corres- 

 pondent. Some of the readings in the letters slightly vary from 

 the copies used by Allan Cunningham in his " Works and Life 

 of Burns." The poet appears to have copied out for his more 

 intimate friends, those pieces he had recently been occupied 

 with ; and hence there may be of some of them more than one 

 example purporting to be an original. Of articles of local 

 interest there were also to be seen there three sketches, of Etal, 

 Langleyford, and Horncliffe Mill, by the late W. Wilson, jun., 

 of Bridge Street, Berwick ; and a continuation of Miss Dickin- 

 son's beautiful paintings of wild flowers, and the commencement 

 of a series of moths with their caterpillars. 



At one o'clock the members met in the billiard-room of the 

 King's Arms Hotel, for the transaction of business. Dr Paxton 

 delivered his address, and nominated Mr Charles Watson, Dunse, 

 ^.s his successor. Mr Hardy read the Eeports of the various 



