492 Report of Meetings for 18S1. By Jas. Hardy. 



Berwick Meeting. 

 Tlie annual meeting was lield at Berwick, on Wednesday, 12tli 

 October, at half-past twelve, in tlie King's Arms Hotel. There 

 were present : — Eev. Thomas Brown, F.E.8.E., President ; Dr 

 Douglas and Mr Hardy, Secretaries ; Sir Walter Elliot of Wolfe 

 lee, E..C.S.I., F.E.8. etc. ; Eevs. W. Dobie, M.A., Ladykirk 

 Eobert Paul, M.A., Dollar ; E. F. Proudfoot, B.A., Fogo ; e! 

 Hopper Williamson, M.A., Whickham ; Eobert Wilson, Eig- 

 muir, Hamilton ; Professor Balfour, M.D., F.E.S., Edinburgh 

 Major Thompson, Walworth Hall, Darlington ; Capt. Forbes, 

 E.N., Berwick ; Capt. Norman, E.N. ; Dr. Fluker, Dr. Eichard 

 son, and Dr. Paxton, Berwick ; Messrs E. G. Bolam, Berwick 

 George Bolam, Berwick ; W. B. Boyd of Faldonside ; A. Brother- 

 ston, Kelso ; William Cunningham, Coldstream ; Eobert 

 Douglas, Berwick ; John Ferguson, Dunse ; Peter Loney, March- 

 mont ; William Maddan, Berwick ; James Purves, Berwick ; John 

 Sadler, Curator of the Eoyal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh ; 

 William Shaw, Eyemouth ; John Thomson, Kelso ; Eobert Wed- 

 dell, Berwick ; William Wilson, Berwick ; and Matthew Young, 

 Berwick. 



The retiring President, Eev. Thomas Brown, occupied the 

 chair, and delivered a most touching closing address. Professor 

 Balfour proposed a vote of thanks to the president for his able 

 address — oae of the best addresses he had ever listened to — a 

 vote which was heartily accorded. In returning thanks, Mr 

 Brown nominated as his successor the Eev. James Farquharson, 

 M A., Selkirk, as president for the next year. 



Mr Hardy read an outline of the proceedings at the various 

 meetings of the Club in 1881. Dr. Douglas said that so many 

 places had been visited by the Club that they were compelled to 

 go further afield. He proposed that the meetings for next 

 year be : May, Haddington ; June, Hownam for Chew Green ; 

 July, Longformacus ; August, Corbridge-on-Tyne ; September, 

 Jedburgh; while out of compliment to the new president, he 

 proposed the business meeting to be held at Selkirk. 



The noblemen and gentlemen who had been proposed as mem- 

 bers at the meetings during the season were then admitted 

 members of the Club, the list being added to by the nomination 

 of Mr Adam Darling, mayor of Berwick ; Mr A. L. Miller, Ber- 

 wick ; Dr. Thomas Frazer, Berwick ; and Dr. Heagerty, Tweed- 

 mouth. 



