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Hauxley Cottage ; C. F. McCabe, Felton; J. Ferguson, Morpeth ; 

 G-. H. Thompson, J. L. Newbigin, 0. Hodgson, E. Thew, J. P. 

 Turnbull, and T. Tomlinson, Alnwick; and James Thomson, 

 Shawdon. 



Before proposing the accustomed toasts, the President alluded 

 in suitable and feeling terms, to the loss which the Club had 

 sustained in the death of their highly respected and beloved joint- 

 secretary, Dr. Francis Douglas, M.D., Kelso, who was besides 

 their senior member — his election dating so far back as July 30, 

 1834. It was unanimously agreed that a suitable expression of 

 respect, regret, and condolence, be forwarded to the late Dr 

 Douglas's nearest relatives. 



ST BOSWELL'S, DEYBURGH, MERTOTJlSr, MAXTON. 



To furnish this Report, Mr G. S. Douglas, of the Kelso 

 Chronicle, and I combined our accounts. Mr Douglas accom- 

 panied the party, headed by the Rev. M. H. Graham, while I 

 joined the walk down the riverside, having surveyed the upper 

 ground on a previous occasion. Research is better prosecuted 

 when the company breaks up into sections agreeable to indi- 

 vidual tastes. 



The second Meeting was held on June 30, at Newton St 

 Boswells. At half-past eight nineteen sat down to a most 

 substantial breakfast in the Railway Hotel ; and in about an 

 hour afterwards the party, which had been considerably aug- 

 mented by arrivals from various quarters, moved off under the 

 guidance of the Rev. M. H. Graham, Maxton. The route taken 

 was to Dryburgh suspension bridge, by way of the deep dean 

 by which the Bowden Burn finds its way to the Tweed. Here 

 dog-roses flourish in considerable variety and beauty, both at 

 the base of the steep slopes and bare scaurs, and in bright spots 

 at the bank tops, where they court the sunshine, surrounded by 

 blackthorn thickets. Rosa mollissima (the smallest in size), R. 

 iomentosa, and R. canina are the three sorts most conspicuous. 

 Plantago media was plentiful in the meadow. Dr Johnston 

 refers to its frequency around Bowden and at the foot of the 

 Eildons. In the gravel of the brook Barbarea vulgaris (yellow 

 rocket) and Reseda lutea (weld — a herb that once furnished a 

 yellow dye) were plentifnl. In the dry pastures hereabouts 

 Timothy grass is bulbous-rooted, forming the Phleum nodosum of 



