Report of Meetings for 1881. By Jas. Hardy, 493 



Sir Walter Elliot among other remarks on the working of the 

 Club said that many members were not aware of their responsi- 

 bilities as members of the Club, and did not recognise the full 

 scope of the Club's work. A committee had sketched a plan to 

 explain the objects for which the Club was instituted, which Sir 

 Walter stated would be printed and circulated among the mem- 

 bers. It was then proposed to indicate to the Club subjects for 

 general inquiry ; and meteorology, biology, geology, archaeology, 

 parochial history, and biography, were suggested. 



Mr Bolam, who had audited the accounts in the absence of Mr 

 Middlemas, gave a statement of the monetary position of the 

 Club. The income had been £104 2s., while the expenditure 

 amounted to £108 7s. 9d. This left a balance due to the treasur- 

 er, but arrears amounting to £30 were to come in. It was then 

 agreed that all members should pay 6d per annum additional to 

 the present subscription, to cover the rather large cost of the 

 postage of the Club's " Proceedings." Sir Walter Elliot pro- 

 posed Mrs Middlemas, Alnwick, as an honorary member of the 

 Club, in recognition of her disinterested services on its behalf. 

 This was at once, and cordially agreed to. 



Major Thompson exhibited a silver coin of Hadrian, which 

 was found at the Eoman Camp of Eochester; and the Eev 

 Eobert Paul, Dollar, showed a number of flint arrow heads and 

 wrought flints found on Tent's Muir, in Fifeshire. Our Lady 

 members at Berwick had much to shew of objects interesting to 

 the Club. Mr Brotherston stated that a specimen of the Gem- 

 meous Dragonet {CalUonymus Lyra) had been recently found 

 among other flshes at Berwick. Dr. Johnston states that this re- 

 markable and beautiful fish is not uncommon on our coast. Mr 

 John Ferguson had remarked that in the Dunse district, Black- 

 caps and Eedstarts were this year very numerous. In some 

 visits to the upper part of Westruther parish, he had gathered 

 the French willow fEpilohium angustifolium )\xi. some of the ravines, 

 as I have done in another similar cleugh close on the hills above 

 Woodhall, E.L. ; he had also found Vaccinium Vitis-ldoea on the 

 Lammermoors of that parish, and Vaccinium Oxycoccus, or cran- 

 berry in some of the mosses. 



Mr Eenton had found Utricularia minor in fine flower in Gor- 

 don moss, which is very rare in that condition. 



The members dined in the King's Arms Hotel at 3 o'clock. 



