76 Report of Meetings for 1885. By Jas. Hardy. 



scratched by glacial action ; a fine large cupped Eed Deer's 

 antler entire, with the epidermis attached, was obtained from 

 the middle of the excavations ; another of equal size and form, 

 but broken, and the epidermis removed, was dug out elsewhere ; 

 and, what was more valuable than either, a pretty complete 

 cranium, with the horn-cores still attached, of the extinct gigan- 

 tic ox, Bos primigenius, was come upon : the two last have been 

 secured for the Club. A large decaying trunk of black oak and 

 several well-preserved layers of tree leaves were exposed in the 

 cuttings. The silt enveloping these interesting relics of a by- 

 gone era was composed of glacial drift and mud, mostly derived 

 from Silurian slate. Springs were frequently met with in the 

 bottom of the excavation. 



After dinner — the President, the Eev Dr Leishman, being in 

 the chair — a paper by Mr James Wood, Galashiels, on the 

 habits of the Ox-eye (Parus cceruleu8) when feeding its young, 

 was read. 



The Club having taken much interest in the preservation of 

 Dunstanborough Castle, it was examined during the summer by 

 Mr Hindmarsh and Mr Hardy, by whom a statement was for- 

 warded to the Eyre trustees, suggesting what repairs were 

 needed. These the trustees have now undertaken under the 

 superintendence of Mr C. Hodgson Fowler, Durham. Some 

 correspondence on the subject having been read to the meeting, 

 Mr Hindmarsh moved the following resolution, which was 

 seconded by Mr G. H. Thompson, Alnwick, and adopted : — ''That 

 the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club learns with pleasure of the 

 steps at present being taken on behalf of the Eeverend Samuel 

 Kettlewell and Mr James Stables, as the Eyre trustees, to pre- 

 serve the remaining building of Dunstanborough Castle, which 

 are being efficiently carried out by Mr A. E. Gordon, under the 

 direction of Mr C. H. Fowler, and it assures them of its high 

 appreciation of their efforts to maintain a structure of so great 

 antiquity and of so much interest to antiquarians, especially to 

 those resident in the north." 



The following gentlemen were proposed for membership : — 

 Messrs George Henderson, M.B., CM., Coldstream; L. G. 

 Broadbent, M.D., Bamburgh, Belford; Eev. Edward Hussey 

 Adamson, M.A., Vicarage, Felling, Gateshead. 



At the Club's meeting of July 31st, 1878, it was intended to 

 have gone to Aikengall ; but those who attended only got half- 





