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Report of the Meetings of the Berwickshire Naturalists' 

 Club, for the year 1888. By James Hardy. 



Bridge of Aln, Edlingham, Lemmington, Broompark, 

 Bolton, Shawpon. 



In order to accommodate Mr Batters's valuable " Marine Algse 

 of Berwick-on-Tweed," it is necessary to restrict the details of 

 Club Meetings for this year, reserving Architectural, Historical, 

 or Genealogical notices to be worked up eventually into special 

 papers to appear as opportunity arises, and where necessary to 

 be illustrated with cuts and engravings. The old accounts of 

 many of the localities in the Club's district are thread-bare, and 

 require fresh researches to rehabilitate them. It is to be hoped 

 that we may yet have many such investigations to record, not as 

 a summary merely, but bearing the marks of painstaking, and 

 elaborated from original authorities. 



On the 30th May the Club assembled on new ground. A long 

 walk had been staked out, but the distances having been pre- 

 viously tested, were known to be within the compass of ordinary 

 physical exertion. The thanks of the Club are due to Mr James 

 Thomson who acted as guide, and planned the route ; and to 

 Mr R. G. Bolam and Mr William Thompson, Shawdon, who 

 smoothed the way in various other respects. 



The breakfast for those who had travelled from a distance was 

 at the Bridge of Aln. a very comfortable hotel. The side-board 

 and the breakfast table were decorated \\ ith early garden flowers 

 of extreme rarity, brought by Mr and Mrs Muirhead. In front 

 of the Inn a fine view is obtained of the Glanton Pyke mansion, 

 with its broad green pastures descending in front, and the bright 

 house backed by trees. Mile is on the top of the hill at the left 

 side, and the Pyke farm on the other. The extensive quarry of 

 white sandstone on the western Glanton hill, instead of being a 

 blemish, wears the aspect of a great stone terrace or natural 

 crag. The school-house and village line the roadway drawn 

 across the base of the swelling sheltering ridge. Glanton Pyke 

 with its double peak and its smooth green outline, is one of the 

 most marked features of the district. The intervening ground 

 between us and the village is fully cultivated, and regularly 

 sub-divided. In the background lie the Prendwick sub-conical 

 heights, still dappled with their unrenovated patches of fox- 



