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with those nominated at other meetings during the year, were 

 admitted members of the Club : — Eev. Thomas Ilderton of Ilder- 

 ton ; Dr Edwin Thew, Alnwick ; Mr Thomas Walby, Alnwick ; 

 Mr William Newton Morrison, New Bewick ; Mr William Alder, 

 Berwick ; Eev. Charles Baldwin. Berwick ; Mr Eobert Weddell, 

 Berwick ; Mr George Weatherhead, Berwick. Miss Eussell of 

 Ashiesteel was elected an honorary member of the Club. 



Mr Middlemas, Treasurer, stated that the total income for the 

 past year had been £99 6s, while the expenditure amounted to 

 £116 odds, leaving a balance due to the treasurer of £5 2s 2d. 

 The Club had £53 on deposit receipt, which, with the accrued 

 interest, was available. The arrears were stated to amount to 

 £45, and, on the suggestion of the treasurer, a resolution was 

 passed unanimously enjoining members to pay their subscriptions 

 regularly when applied for. 



Mr Bigge suggested Fungi as a special study for some of the 

 members, who might bring to the meetings selections of edible 

 and poisonous fungi. The suggestion met with general approval. 



Mr Brotherston stated that he had found the petty whin, Vlex 

 Gain near East Fodderlie, between Eule and Jed waters. Mr 

 Tait of Eglingham, a few years since, noticed Ulex Galii on 

 Beanley moor, Northumberland. Mr Brotherston brought speci- 

 mens of Polytrichum strictum, Doecleuch, Sept. 9, 1880; Hypnum 

 fluitans, Skelfhill, Sept., 1880 ; Sphagnum ruhellum, Primside Bog, 

 March 30, 1879; Jungermannia Floerkii, Nees., Skelfhill-pen, 

 Sept., 1880 ; Gymnomitrium concinnatum, SkeKhiU-pen, Sept., 

 1880. 



Mr Watson had sent for exhibition a plain gold ring, which 

 had been turned up by the plough on the farm of Cairncross in 

 1875. The ring had been caught up by the point of the sock, 

 and was much thinned and rubbed before it was detected. On 

 the inside in a writing hand of the 16th or 17th century, is cut 

 this inscription : "I bleise god my best abod." Mr Watson has 

 also a spindle-whorl, which has been painted black, which is 

 labelled : " Stone for keeping Witches off Cattle, brought from 

 Billie in 1748 to Bankend, by John Landels (1834)." 



Five members of the Club have died during the year — 1. Capt. 

 Charles Gandy, Alnwick. 2. The Eev. Eobert Orange Bromfield, 

 minister of Sprouston, who died at Strathpeffer, August 28th, 

 1880, in the 37th year of his ministry there, having been 



