4 Anniversary Address. 



The visitors were deeply impressed with, the attentions, the 

 facilities, and the hospitality accorded to them ; and the exhibi- 

 tion of valuable objects of antiquity and gold and silver coins 

 placed by the owners for the convenience of members in the 

 Museum, was much appreciated. 



ROTHBURY. 



The June Meeting was held at Rothbury, and was very 

 numerously attended. Two alternative routes had been proposed 

 in the circular, one to Simonside where the Club had never been, 

 and the other to Cragside where a previous visit had been made. 

 The wet morning settled the business, it being too damp for the 

 hills ; and this was fortunate, as Sir William Armstrong had 

 resolved to be the Club's leader for the day, not only over the 

 enriched interior of the mansion house, but despite of successive 

 showers, conducting the company throughout the winding 

 labyrinths that permeate for miles the fairy scenes, that he may be 

 said to have created out of a bleak waste and an accumulation of 

 bare rocky precipices. Dr Stuart has written an account of this 

 festal day at Cragside, which will be embodied in the Report, 

 and supplemented from my own notes. The glacier smoothed 

 and scratched rocks on the summit displayed ice action on a 

 more enlarged scale than any member of the Club had before 

 witnessed. 



On their return to Rothbury some of the members visited the 

 Parish Church. Dinner was at the Queen's Head Hotel, when, 

 in addition to the Club's toasts, the health of Sir William and 

 Lady Armstrong was heartily received by the members. One or 

 two short notices were read, and several drawings of ancient 

 relics and curiosities were passed round the table for inspection. 

 It was agreed that the next meeting of the Club should be held 

 on the last Wednesday in July at Chipchase Castle, Simonburn, 

 and Haughton Castle, instead of Cockburnspath. 



I made the journey to Simonside next day along with Mr D. 

 D. Dixon, who had done so much to forward this meeting, and 

 with the Rev. A. Scott— I could not have had better guidance ; — 

 and others of the Club members had taken excursions across the 

 country on the day preceding the meeting, some of them crossing 

 the hills from Yetholm into Upper Coquetdale. After the 

 meeting I went to Alnwick, whence there were visits taken to 

 Eslington, Glanton Pyke, Shawdon, Titlington Hills, Dunstan- 



