\l Meport of Meetings for .188?. By J. Hardy. 



1, Right Hon. Edward Marjoribanks, M.P., Ninewells House, 

 Chirnside ; 2, AVilliam Cecil Hedley, Cheviott House, Corbridge- 

 on-Tyne ; 3, Rev. P. B. Gunn, M.A., Oxnain ; 4, George Fortune, 

 Duns ; 5, Rev. Macduff Simpson, M.A., Edrorn. 



The following were present : — Rev. David Paul, Roxburgh 

 (President); Mr James Hardy (Secretary); Revs. William 

 Robertson, Spouston ; Evan Rutter, Spittal ; Beverley Wilson, 

 Duddo ; John Walker, Whaltou ; Macduff Simpson, Edrom ; 

 W. B. Herald, Duns ; Captain F. M. Norman, R.N., Berwick ; 

 Drs. Stuart, Chirnside; and Denholm, Broomhill : Messrs Peter 

 Loney, Marchmont ; Edwin Clapham, Broomhouse ; John 

 Ferguson. Duns; William Crawford, Duns; William Gunn, 

 Duns ; Charles Watson, Duns ; Joseph Wilson, Duns ; George 

 Muirhead, Paxton ; James Greenfield, Reston ; J. L. Newbigin, 

 Alnwick ; William T. Hindmarsh, Alnwick ; James J. R. Storer, 

 Alnwick ; James Thomson, Shawdon ; William Currie, Linthill ; 

 Abraham Burbery Herbert, Edinburgh ; John Turnbull, Ettrick 

 View, Selkirk; Michael Muir, Selkirk. 



Felton, Brenckbur> t , Long Framlixgtox, Swarlaxd, 

 Newmoor House, Overgrass, Newton-on-the-Moor. 



The Felton excursion on June 29th was composed of two 

 parties — one assembling at Felton, the second bringing with it a 

 carriage for the future journey, departing from Alnwick. I 

 accompanied the Alnwick members. It was a most favourable 

 day for seeing the country. Nearly all the way to Felton, where- 

 ever the hedges had been left unpruned, the wild roses in bloom 

 were magnificent. Agriculturally .many of the fields passed 

 cannot be favourably spoken of, as several of them were bare of 

 grass, or reverting to their pristine condition, or even worse ; 

 but the sheets of blooming Lotus comicidatus afforded splendid 

 pictures of glowing yellow, and these not confined to one position, 

 but diffused across most of the old pastures of the district. 

 Swansfield, towering from its vantage ground, was enveloped in 

 a mass of leafy umbrage, and Rugley at a distance showed fair 

 amongst its detached circuit of groves. The site of the well on 

 the Alnwick Common, where the candidates for municipal honours 

 in times gone by submitted to an undignified struggle, was with- 

 in view. Cawledge Burn, which was crossed, presented a most 

 promising scene for botanical inquiry. Here, and at intervals 



