36 kt'port of Meetings for 188?. By J. Hardy. 



fields there, showed Uabcnaria viridis and Orchis latifulia, called 

 here "Cain aud Abel " (in Elginshire, Mr James Thomson says 

 it is named " Love and Hatred "), lor whose properties see Dr 

 Johnston's Flora of the Eastern Borders, p. 193, under Orchis 

 latifolia. St achy s Betonica was plentiful. Three if not more burns 

 combine to form the iSwarlaud or Manor burn, which is a tributary 

 of the Coquet. 



Newton Hall still remained to be visited. We very much 

 regretted that we had to disappoint Mrs Widdrington, and that 

 time did not permit us to see the garden, then in rich bloom, 

 which Canon Ilderton afterwards assured us had deprived us of 

 a great pleasure. We could only give a ceremonious call, and 

 take a glance at the handsome mansion, and the well-stocked 

 green-house. Among the grass and a profusion of Oxe-eye 

 Daisies by the side of the plantation near the Hall, Mr W. B. 

 Boyd got his eyes on two plants of Neottia JYidus-avis, for which 

 we had been on the outlook at an earlier part of the day. This 

 rare Orchis was gathered in 1885 by Miss Hilda Cadogan, in the 

 wood at the north-west of Swarland House. I have seen her 

 dried specimens. Dr George R. Tate records it from the Caw- 

 ledge woods, where it is rare. Miss Emma Trevelyan (afterwards 

 Mrs Dr Power) long ago got it at Wallington and Capheaton, 

 (Winch's Flora, p. 57). 



Felton was reached half-an-hour beyond the time fixed. 

 Twenty-one dined at the Northumberland Arms. Mr Dand 

 exhibited a specimen of iron-slag from one of the heaps at 

 Canada. A very fine oblong hammer head of stone, (of native 

 British origin) perforated for handle, resembling a modern 

 hammer, and finely bevelled on the margins ; the aperture 

 wrought from two sides, but not so marked as in other examples, 

 was exhibited by Mr George H. Thompson, Alnwick. It came 

 from the vicinity of Belford. Mr James Thomson exhibited a 

 specimen of Sirex Gigas, got in an old stick-house behind 

 Shawdon gardens ; where it had issued from the old wood. Of 

 date 6th July, Mr H. H. Craw sent me three from West Foulden, 

 caught the previous day in a loft of one of the farm-cottages, 

 where there were quite a number of them. Mr Craw's were 

 darker hued than that from Shawdon. Mr George H. Thompson 

 brought to the notice of the Club, that the sea-fowls' nests at the 

 Fame Islands, in the absence of any proper superintendent, had 

 been so robbed of their eggs, by the fishermen of North Sunderland 

 and others, that not an egg was left ; and recommended that a 



