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upon me at our last annual meeting, in electing me President 

 of the Club. I have endeavoured to discharge my duty to 

 the best of my power. My shortcomings I know you will 

 forgive. In retiring from the chair, I have to nominate as 

 my successor, Rev. David Paul, whose botanical knowledge 

 and literary abilities eminently qualify him for President. 



Report of Meetings of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, 

 for the year 188G. P>y J ames Hardy. 



NEWBIGGEN-BY-TUE-SEA, CRESSWELL, AND WOODHORX. 



The first meeting- for the year was on Wednesday, 26th May, 

 at Newbiggen-by-the-Sea, where 22 members assembled for 

 breakfast at the "Old Ship Hotel." The meeting had the 

 advantage of a clear day and a bright sky. The town is of 

 considerable size, with many comfortable houses having orna- 

 mental gardens in front. The portion of it facing the sea is 

 terraced round the shores of a lovely bay. There is a fine 

 circuit of sand stretching between the inn and the projecting 

 point, where the church, placed on a height, is a prominent 

 land-mark. Tynemouth and Whitley, and the Seaton Delaval 

 woods were distinct in the south of a low line of coast ; Coquet 

 Isle and Warkworth on the northwards ; and the Cheviot Hills, 

 like a dim cloud, afar off inland. The calm sea glittered in the 

 morning sun-beams, and the boats had just landed. A lively 

 scene ensued when the bare-legged stout fishermen's wives and 

 daughters bore off the results of the fishing ; and the men in 

 their long boots strode off to their respective abodes for the first 

 meal of the day. Shells, star-fish, and dismembered Crustacea— 

 the spoils of the sea — lay strewed about. 



The sea has been making here, in the course of ages, con- 

 siderable ravages. The old inhabitants declare that formerly the 

 church was two miles from the sea ; whereas now at high tide, 

 the waves threaten to invade the sacred acre where rest, the 

 remains of many a generation of the people of the olden time, 

 when Newbiggen was a commercial entrepot, and a haven for 

 shipping. 



