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Cockburnspath ; John Hood, Oldcambus Townhead ; George P. 

 Hughes of Middleton Hall ; W. A. Hunter, M.A., Dunse ; 

 William T. Hindmarsh, Alnwick ; Edward Johnson of Tweed- 

 hank, Kelso, M.D. ; William H. Johnson, Edinburgh ; James 

 Balfour Kerr, Kelso ; Eobert Darling Kerr, Edinburgh ; Alex- 

 ander Leiteh, Eairneyside ; Peter Loney, Marchmont ; J. S. Mack 

 of Coveyheugh; J. F. Macpherson, Adjutant, B.E.Y., Melrose; 

 Jonathan Melrose, Coldstream ; George Muirhead, Paxton ; F. 

 M. Norman, Commander, E.N., Berwick ; Dr. John Paxton, Ber- 

 wick ; James Purves, Berwick ; Bobert Eenton, Fans ; Henry 

 Eichardson, M.D., Berwick ; Frederick Lewis Eoy of Nenthorn ; 

 Francis Eussell, Sheriff-Substitute of Eoxburghshire, Jedbank ; 

 John Sadler, Eoyal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh ; William Shaw, 

 Eyemouth ; Septimus H. Smith, Norham ; George Heriot Stevens, 

 GuUane ; Charles Stuart, M.D., Hillside Cottage, Chirnside; G« 

 H. Thompson, Alnwick ; John Thomson, Kelso ; John Turnbull 

 of Abbey St. Bathans ; Matthew Turnbull, M.D., Coldstream ; 

 J. J. Yernon, F.S.A. Scot., Hawick ; Charles Watson, F.S.A. 

 Scot., Dunse ; William Weatherhead, Berwick ; Eobert Wed- 

 dell, Berwick ; John Wilson, Chapelhill ; William Wilson, 

 Berwick ; James Wood, Galashiels ; and Matthew Young, Ber- 

 wick. 



After breakfast the members and their guests divided them- 

 selves into companies for the day's excursions. One party went 

 by conveyances to Edin's Hall; a second at whose disposal Lady 

 Stirling of Eenton House placed her carriage, visited Pease 

 Bridge, Dunglass dean, and Cockburnspath. A third group 

 consisting of the President, Professor Balfour, Mr Sadler, Capt. 

 Norman, Eev. Peter Mearns, Mr A. H. Evans, Mr W. Weather- 

 head and Mr Hardy, undertook to do the pilgrimage of the Club, 

 by paying a visit to Penmanshiel Wood, which the President 

 assures us was the scene of the first walk of the Club. On that 

 day we were to'd that an adder {Pelias Berus) was captured, and 

 that Vicia Orohus was discovered in those early years, at the post 

 road side, near Harelawside wood, to the north of Grant's 

 House, whence it has now disappeared. The note of the black- 

 cap was heard in this wood, and the sedge- warbler's song came 

 from the willow bushes both to the east and west of Grant's House. 

 '' Witch-knots " were frequent on some of the birches by the 

 side of the public road. It is now understood that these are pri- 

 marily occasioned by the irritation caused by colonies of mites 



