398 Mepori of Meetings for 1886. By J. Hardy. 



sospknium alter •nifolinm near the little waterfall above Wilton Lodge. 



There were present at dinner at the Tower Hotel — Mr Robert 

 Middlemas, Alnwick, President ; Mr James Hardy, Secretary ; 

 Sir Geoi-ge B. Douglas, Bart., of Springwood Park ; Revs. Joseph 

 Hunter, Cockburnspath ; Thomas Martin, Lauder; Beverley S. 

 Wilson, Duddo Vicarage ; E. H. Adamson, Heworth ; R. H. 

 Williamson, Whickham ; P. F. Colvin, Teviothead; Drs. Skinner, 

 Lauder ; and Edward Johnson, Kelso ; Messrs James Oliver, 

 Thornwood, President of the Hawick Arclueological Society; J. 

 G. Winning, Branxholme Knowe ; David Watson, Hawick ; J. 

 J. Vernon, Hawick ; Walter P. Kennedy, Hawick ; Andrew 

 Waugh, Hawick ; W. Grant Guthrie, Hawick ; Henry Eutherford 

 of Fairnington ; Adam Cochrane, jun. Galashiels; James Wood, 

 Galashiels; Archibald Murray Dunlop, Ashkirk; Charles Watson, 

 Duns ; Thomas Craig Brown, Selkirk ; John Turnbull, Selkirk ; 

 William Evans, F.P.S.E , Edinburgh ; Alexander Anderson, 

 Philosophical Institution, Edinburgh ; John Russell of Chambers' 

 Journal, Edinburgh ; David Patrick, Edinburgh ; W. B. Connop, 

 Sherborne, Dorset ; and R. Colley Smith, Ormiston. 



The following were proposed for membership ; Mr John 

 Mackenzie, Bank agent, Earlston ; Walter Laing, Linden Park, 

 Hawick; James Oliver, Thornwood, Hawick; Rev. T. A. Holcroft, 

 Vicar of Mitford ; Walter Philips Kennedy, Hawick ; George 

 Tancred of Weens, Roxburghshire. 



A letter from Dr. Thomas Anderson of Shaws, was read, accom- 

 panying a specimen of the Solitary Snipe, Scolopax major, shot 

 Sept. 14, at Ramsey-cleugh, Teviothead, which was exhibited 

 after the meeting. Mr Evans gives an account of this rare bird 

 in the Proceedings. Mr Oliver presented those members present 

 with copies of Mrs Oliver's local books : " Hawick and the Borders 

 Three Hundred years ago ;" and "The Gledstones and the Siege of 

 Coklaw," both of which had been written for the Hawick 

 Archaeological Society. A vote of thanks was rendered to Mrs 

 Oliver, and the toast of the "Hawick Archaeological Society" 

 was replied to by Mr Oliver. 



After dinner, under the guidance of the local members, the 

 company visited the Hawick Mote hill, the Buccleuch Hall, and 

 the only remaining pended or bastel house in the town — namely, 

 that of Mr Turnbull, wine merchant, 51 High Street. Formerly 

 there were many such, but the march of improvement has gradu- 

 ally swept them away. 



