Report of Meetings for 1887. By J. Hardy. 55 



The siliceous matter contains — 

 Silica ... ... ... 0.926 



Iron (estimated as Altimina) . 404 



The limestone contains traces of phosphoric acid amounting to nearly 

 half a per cent, reckoned as phosphate of lime. 



The large percentage of carbonate of lime and the small percentages 

 of other substances render this limestone a very excellent one for 

 Agricultural as well as for other purposes. 



THOMAS FATRLHY. 

 April 25th, 1873. 



I also annex Mr Miller's answer to some inquiries I had made before I 

 had the opportunity of consulting his valuable memoir. "The non- 

 magnesian limestone from near Wilkwood is the same as the Eedesdale 

 Limestone of North Tynedale and the Dnn Limestone of North Northumber- 

 land. The other [the Newton Limestone,] as you surmise, is much lower 

 in the series : for while one marks the base of the Calcareous Division, the 

 other is far down in the Tuedian Division. In Coquetdale the latter is 

 divided into Upper Tuedian or Fell Sandstones (a group very constant all 

 through Northumberland), and a Lower Tuedian, commonly called the 

 Cement Limestone group. The latter includes an unusual development of 

 Limestones in Coquetdale, which I have termed the Rothbury Limestones. 

 Your magnesian limestone (which I presume is the same as the " Newton 

 Limestone " of my Memoir) is one of the lowest of these, and is therefore 

 very far down in the Tuedian Division indeed. The Sandstones of 

 Selby's Lake, Harbottle Lough, and Kob Roy's Cave are Fell Sandstones or 

 Upper Tuedian. The coal seams at Wilkwood are partly at the top of the 

 Carbonaceous Division, partly near the bottom of the Calcareous Division. 

 There are three seams — each curiously enough described as 13 inches 

 thick. The sandstone at Rob Roy's Cave occurs at the bottom of the 

 Upper Tuedian." For more explicit information see Mr Miller's Memoir. 



Stow. 



The account of this meeting will consist of the Report of Mr 

 James Wilson, editor of " Scottish Border Record," who had a 

 previous knowledge of the ground, to which most of the others 

 were strangers ; corrected and enlarged and supplemented by 

 my own remarks and information from local sources, and by a 

 letter from the Rev. J. M. Robertson of St Ninians, Stirling ; 

 formerly parochial minister at Stow, containing a list of several 

 of the Fungi of the parish, and remarks on the antiquities of the 

 district. 



The fourth Meeting of the Club was held at Stow on August 

 31st. A considerable quantity of rain had fallen early in the 

 morning, the barometer pointed to a low figure, and for some 



