Report of Meetings for 1888. By J. Hardy. 1 03 



hastily dispatched. After the company thinned, business was 

 proceeded with. 



A letter was read from the Hon. Secretary of a meeting held 

 at Newcastle on the 18th July, of those interested in the British 

 Association's visit to Newcastle in 1889, asking the Club to 

 appoint two of the members to act on the Local General 

 Committee ; and Mr George P. Hughes of Middleton Hall, along 

 with Mr W. T. Hindmarsh, Alnbank, were chosen as the Club's 

 representatives, both of them members of the British Association. 

 Arrangements for the Holy Island Meeting on the 31st August 

 were also settled. 



A continuation of Mr Walter Laidlaw's Notes on Cappuck, 

 where the outline of the Roman Station is now fully laid open, 

 were read, and a vote of thanks was accorded to him. 



A paper was read entitled "Notes on Fairnington and the 

 Rutherfurds of that Ilk, with special reference to the Exchequer 

 Eolls of Scotland, by C. H. E. Carmichael, M.A.." of London. 



The Rev. David Paul announced the discovery of a rare 

 Fungus for the district. 



There were exhibited a collection of Flint Arrow-heads from 

 County Antrim, by Mr Cumming, Jedburgh ; a silver dollar of the 

 Emperor Ferdinand II. of Germanyfound inafield near St Boswells 

 by Mr Dove, Eccles House ; a curious Key found in Jedburgh 

 Abbey, from the Jedburgh Museum, by Mr James Watson ; a 

 fine heavy stone celt (10-^ inches long; 3 J inches at the broadest) 

 from the vicinity of Edgerston Tofts, by Mr Laidlaw ; now in 

 the Marquess of Lothian's Museum, and of which a drawing and 

 measurements have been obtained : it was found 20 years ago. 



Mr Aaron Forrest showed an arrangement by means of a 

 perforated board, by which coins could without removal be read 

 on both sides. There was not time before train time to examine 

 some of Mr Strang's coins. 



The following were proposed for membership : Mr Edward 

 Fisher, F.S.A. Scot., Abbotsbury, Newton Abbot, South Devon; 

 Mr George Wood, Exchange Buildings, Jedburgh ; Mr Thomas 

 Smail, Jedburgh; Mr H. Masternon, Union Street, Kelso; Rev. 

 J. M. L. Aiken, Ayton. 



There were present at this meeting ; Rev. David Paul, 



Roxburgh ; Mr James Hardy, Secretary ; Mr J. J. Vernon, 



Hawick ; Mr David M. Watson, Hawick ; Mr Wm. Guthrie, 



Hawick ; Mr Waugh, Hawick • Mr F. E. Rutherford, Hawick ; 



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