Report of Meetings for 188(5. By J. Hardy. 349 



Among those present were — Mr K. Middlemas, Alnwick 

 (President) ; Mr J. Hardy, Oldcambus (Secretary) ; Eevs. E. F. 

 Colvin, Teviothead ; W. Robertson, Sprouston ; Dr Gloag, 

 Galashiels ; Joseph Hunter, Cockburnspath ; J. Farquharson, 

 Selkirk ; A. B. Coulson, Carham ; Canon Ilderton of Ilderton ; 

 W. Dobie, Ladykirk ; M. H. Graham, Maxton ; Dr Allardyce, 

 Bowden ; A. Davidson, Yetholm ; Drs. 0. Stuart, Chirnside ; D. 

 R. Dobie, Coldstream ; C. Douglas, Kelso ; E. Johnson, Kelso ; 

 A. P. Aitken, Edinburgh ; Captain Norman, R.N. ; Captain 

 Macpherson, Melrose ; Sir G. B. Douglas, Bart., Springwood 

 Park; Messrs J. Freer, Melrose; R. Romanes, Harry burn, 

 Lauder; W. L. Blaikie, Holydean; J. Wood, Galashiels; J. 

 Thomson, Shawdon ; Win. T. Hindmarsh, Alnwick ; J. L. 

 Newbigin, Alnwick ; Michael Muir, Selkirk ; William Curry, 

 Linthill; J. Turnbull, Ettrick View, Selkirk; C. Watson, Duns; 

 D. Watson, Hawick ; W. B. Boyd, Faldonside ; John Thomson, 

 Maxton ; John Blair, artist, Edinburgh ; George Muirhead, 

 Paxton ; J. S. Dudgeon, Longnewton ; Andrew Currie, Darnick ; 

 G. S. Douglas, Kelso ; A. M. Dunlop, Ashkirk ; George Hender- 

 son, Shidlaw ; W. H, Johnson, Edinburgh ; R. S. Gibb, Boon, 

 &c. 



On the evening previous to this meeting, Mr Dudgeon showed 

 me, at Longnewton Place, the top of Longnewton Cross, which 

 he preserves. The subquadrate angulated apex is encircled at 

 its base with a band of roses ; the stalk has been of slender 

 proportions and octagonal, or rather quadrate with bevelled 

 edges. Mr Dudgeon also has a heavj r clumsily formed key, 

 almost plain, except a twist up at the peak to adapt it to the 

 single ward of a lock. It is said to have been the key of the 

 old church at the village ; but it is quite as possible that it was 

 the key of the door of the old peel now incorporated with the 

 house. The walls of this division of the house are six feet 

 thick. 



In the first week of August, at the invitation of Col. Sir 

 William Ramsay Fairfax, I revisited the neighbourhood of 

 Maxton and St Boswells, to examine the old half obliterated 

 tombstones, and to search for any other sculptured stones still 

 preserved about the churches and churchyards of those two 

 places, in which we were assisted by the Revs. Messrs Fisher 

 and Graham. Inscriptions were copied, sketches made, and a 



