Report of Meetings for 1885. By Jas. Hardy. 7 5 



being no Greenhouse liere at the time 

 it was reared at Kimmerghame till the 

 year 1803, when it was transplanted here." 

 Miss Lucy Johnston was a sister of the eccentric " Suff " 

 Johnston, one of the notorieties of the old Edinburgh fashionable 

 circles. About 1783 we hear of Miss Lucy Johnston as about to 

 be married to Macdowel of Logan. (' Songstresses of Scotland,' 

 i., p. 158, compared with p. 152.) 



There is a colony of Stockdoves at Duns Castle, but since the 

 burrs have been removed from the stems of the lime-trees their 

 numbers have been diminished. 



COCKBUKNSPATH FOR AIKENGALL. 



The fifth meeting for 1885 was held at Oockburnspath on 

 Wednesday, September 30th. Preparations had been made with 

 long carts and other conveyance to take a large party to Aiken- 

 gall in the parish of Innerwick, East Lothian, to explore the 

 ravines there ; but the repeated heavy rainfalls were too repellant 

 for a journey among the Lammermoors, which is only worth 

 taking when the weather is pleasant and dry. 



There were sixteen present : Eev. Dr Leishman, President ; 

 J. Hardy, Secretary ; Mr Leishman, junr. ; Dr Stuart, Chirn- 

 side ; Mr W. B. Boyd, Faldonside ; Mr A. H. Evans, Cambridge; 

 Eev. E. H. Williamson, Whickham ; Mr William Allan, Bow- 

 shiel ; Mr J. T. S. Doughty, Ayton ; Mr E. Y. Green, Newcastle ; 

 Mr John Hood, Oldcambus Townhead ; Mr Ferguson, Chirnside ; 

 and Mr William T. Hindmarsh, Mr G. H. Thompson, Mr Tom- 

 linson, and Mr J. P. Turnbull, from Alnwick. 



There being no hope of reaching the hills that day, as an 

 alternative Dunglass Dean old collegiate church and gardens 

 were resorted to ; and a return route by the coast, where there 

 is so much to see, would have been followed out, but prudence 

 prevailed, and the party retreated to more comfortable quarters 

 at the inn, where, after a change of clothes, the spare hour before 

 dinner was occupied in the examination of botanical specimens 

 and of several archaeological drawings and photographs ; and a 

 paper "On the Geology of the Basin of Eyemouth New Harbour," 

 by the resident engineer, and communicated by Mr James Gibson 

 of Gunsgreen, was read. When the gravel and silt had been 

 cleared from the rock (Greywacke and Greywacke-slate at a high 

 angle), the surface was found to bo planed, smoothed, and 



