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accompanying another from William Allan Woddrop, Esq., of 

 Garvald House, Dolphinton, in reference to a brass pot, of the 

 three-legged " kail-pot'' type, discovered on Mr Woddrop's pro- 

 perty of Edmonston, in Biggar parish, last summer. It was 

 found only about four inches below the surface ; about a quarter 

 of a mile from the old Eoman Camp on Candy Castle. The pot 

 when found was on its feet and full of earth. It had an iron 

 handle, very much rusted. The pot was exhibited before the 

 meeting dispersed. Such brass pots are found in inventories of 

 a few generations back. It is a very perfect specimen ; has a 

 circular projecting ridge below the insertion of the ears; two 

 parallel ridges round the middle ; and a fourth single one above 

 the insertion of the feet, the feet are its chief peculiarity, as they 

 raise it up considerably, and are stiff looking. There is a double 

 lance-like ridge lengthways on the centre of each, and the termin- 

 ation is like the foot of an ox. The height is 11| inches. It is 

 cast in two pieces. The length of the feet is 4^ inches. Mr 

 Mathison has sent a fine drawing of it, along with these dimen- 

 sions. When exhibited since at Edinburgh to the members of 

 the Society of Scottish Antiquaries, its chief interest to them was 

 the iron handle, which none of their examples were provided 

 with. As appears by their Catalogue the neighbourhood of Big- 

 gar has been very productive of these brass pots. 



Mr Blaikie, Holydean, exhibited a map of the course of the 

 Niger, drawn by Mungo Park, the traveller, previous to under- 

 taking his last fatal journey ; also a letter of Mungo Park, to his 

 sister ; and two letters of Sir Walter Scott, the longest being ad- 

 dressed to Mrs Laidlaw, Peel. A Eeport on the Effects of Winter 

 1880-81, on Vegetation and A.nimals at Mounteviot, by Mr Page, 

 gardener to the Marquis of Lothian, was received. Mr James 

 Wood, Galashiels, showed a ponderous iron axe of antique fashion 

 that had been found recently near Hume Castle. 



The following gentlemen were proposed as members at this 

 meeting : — Mr Ephraim Arkle, Carrick, Elsdon, Northumber- 

 land ; Dr. Tennant, Melrose ; Dr. Weight, Melrose ; Dr. John 

 Henderson Wright, Kelso ; Rev. James Boyd, Innerleithen ; Mr 

 Eichard Lees, Galashiels ; Mr Edward Tennant, yr. of The 

 Glen ; Stevenson Macadam, Ph.D., Lecturer on Chemistry, Sur- 

 geon's Hail, Edinburgh ; and the Hon. H. C. Maxwell-Stuart of 

 Traquair, 



