Anniversary Address. 7 



During the past year the Club has lost a larger number 

 than usual of its older members. I shall enumerate them 

 as their names stood on our roll : — Henry Gregson, Lowlyn ; 

 Dr Kobert Hood, Edinburgh; Rev. William Darnell, late 

 Vicar of Bamburgh ; Sir George H. S. Douglas, Bart., of 

 Springwood Park ; Rev. John F. Bigge, Vicar of Stamford- 

 ham ; J. Towlerton Leather, of Middleton Hall ; Dr Robert 

 Carr Fluker, Berwick ; Rev. W. I. Meggison, South Charlton ; 

 Rev. William Stobbs, Gordon; John Watson Laidlay, of 

 SeaclifFe ; Frank Rutherford, Galashiels ; and Walter Grieve, 

 Cattleshiels. 



The Club, according to the present list, contains 379 

 members. But taking into account recent removals and 

 some other possible vacancies, it is likely that about thirty 

 new members will have to be admitted to make up the 

 number of four hundred to which it was resolved last year 

 to limit the Club. The mode of admission was then under 

 consideration, and the discussion of it is to be continued 

 to-day. No doubt you are all desirous that regulations for 

 this purpose may be settled with some probability of per- 

 manence, guarding on the one hand against everything that 

 may repel candidates who would be desirable acquisitions 

 to our body, on the other against a too ready admission of 

 those who have no intelligent sympathy with the ends for 

 which the Club exists. 



A great service has this year been done to the Club by 

 the republication of the first volume of its Proceedings, ex- 

 tending over the first ten years of its existence. Since it 

 became larger and its work more widely known, there has 

 been an increasing desire among collectors here and else- 

 where, to have complete sets of the Proceedings. The 

 rarity of the earlier numbers made this very difficult. The 

 want is now supplied by the exact reprint just issued under 

 the careful supervision of our Secretary. The Club lies 

 under much obligation to him and to Mr Muirhead, who 

 has so heartily associated himself with Mr Hardy's work. 



