450 Report of Meetings for 1881. By Jas. Hardy. 



difference between the plants in tidal waters, and those in the 

 Teviot. The leaves of the latter plants are obovate, while under 

 the influence of the tide, they are oblong. There were several 

 other collections of plants. Sheriff Eussell stated that he had 

 plants growing in his garden at Jedbank of Goodyera repens, Stel- 

 laria glauca, Listera cordata, and Linncea horealis, plants of which 

 he obtained at the Gordon meeting last year. Boletus luridus 

 had been picked up on the journey. 



Mr Stevens, Gullane, shewed a sketch of an earthenware urn 

 recently discovered at Stobshiel, near Leaston, in Humbie Parish, 

 East Lothian. The encircling ornamental bands were of a 

 lozenge pattern and not chevrons. In the beginning of January, 

 1882, another East Lothian urn containing calcined human 

 bones, was found while ploughing on the farm of Q-uarryford, 

 on the Tester Estate of the Marquis of Tweeddale. 



In a field near the Railway Station a large marquee had been 

 erected, gaily decorated for the occasion with flowers, evergreens, 

 and bannerets, conspicuous on one of which appeared the words, 

 " Welcome all to Grant's House." A rustic arch of flowers had 

 been constructed over the gate of the pasture field in which the 

 tent stood. Inside the tent on the tables was a tasteful display 

 of cut and pot plants, for which and many other obliging favours 

 during the day the Club owes special thanks to Lady Stirling. 

 Precisely at half -past three the chair was taken by the President, 

 who called upon Dr Francis Douglas to present Mr Hardy with 

 a testimonial of respect from the members of the Club. Mr 

 Hardy's reply took the form of a paper in which he gave an ac- 

 count of some of his experiences as a Naturalist, with reminis- 

 cences of many of the friends to whom during the prosecution of 

 his studies he had been introduced. 



After dinner the following were formally proposed as members 

 of the Club : — The Most Honourable the M arquess of Tweeddale ; 

 Mr John Scott of Gala ; Eev. C. E. Bowden, St. Columba's 

 Church, Edinburgh ; Edward Johnson, M.D., Tweedbank, 

 Kelso ; Eev. John Orr, Berwick ; Mr E. P. Brotherston, Tyn- 

 ingham Gardens, Prestonkirk ; Mr. Edward Wdloby, jun., 

 Berwick ; and Mr Joseph Wilson, solicitor, Dunse. 



The following motion of which notice had been given by Mr 

 John Thomson, was then put from the chair and carried: — 

 " That the Club approve of a proposal to reprint the first volume 

 of the Proceedings as a private enterprise, and cordially recom- 



