400 Report of Meetings for 1886. By J. Hardy. 



There are three fire-places of coloured marble. The walls are 

 lined with a double tier of bookcases, and a gallery gives access 

 to the upper tier. The Library is said to contain upwards of 

 15,000 volumes. The Saloon and Drawing Eooms are gorgeous 

 examples of cinque cento decoration, with all their wealth of 

 sculptured marble, wood carvings, colour, and gilding. In those 

 apartments are many excellent pictures by ancient masters, 

 principally collected by Duke Algernon. The views from the 

 windows of the several rooms shewed some beautiful park and 

 river scenery. The Dining Room is a noble room with carvings in 

 the natural colour of the wood, and contains the family 

 portraits. 



The party also visited the Chapel, which is of an oblong form — 

 the walls are decorated with various coloured marbles and mosaic 

 work, and have lancet windows, and there is a groined roof. 



Ample time was allowed the members to look around them. Mr 

 John Brown — head of the carving department carried on in the 

 Abbot's Tower, and who carved the frames of the principal pictures 

 — accompanied the members and described some of the pictures. 

 Under his guidance the party went to the several museums in 

 the castle — the collection of Ancient British Urns, Ornaments, 

 Weapons, Roman Pottery, Incised Stones, and other antiquities 

 were viewed with interest ; but where the members lingered most 

 was in that part where the Egyptian Antiquities gathered by 

 Duke Algernon were deposited. 



Time however was pressing, and the members were gathered 

 together to go to the Gardens. Mr Harris, the head gardener, 

 conducted the party through them, and took great pleasure in 

 giving all the information he could in the short time at disposal. 



The party again assembled at the Northumberland Arms, there 

 being present — Mr Robert Middlemas, President, Alnwick ; Mr 

 James Hardy, Secretary; Mr W. T. Hindmarsh, Alnwick; Mr 

 George Muirhead, Paxton ; Mr C. Hodgson, Buston Vale ; Rev. 

 R. F. Colvin, Teviothead ; T. C. Hindmarsh, London ; Messrs 

 John James Horsley, Henry H. Blair, Robert Amos, Geo. H. 

 Thompson, J. L. Newbigin, Dr. Alex. James Main, Adam 

 Robertson, Col. P. Holland, James Heatley, Alnwick ; Capt. F. 

 M. Norman, Berwick ; John Dunlop, Berwick ; C. M. Adamson, 

 Newcastle; Rev. E. H. Adamson, Heworth; Rev. Joseph Hunter, 

 Cockburnspath ; Matthew Young, Berwick ; James Greenfield. 

 Reston ; James Thomson, Shawdon ; also present — Revs. E. B. 



