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land probably thicker still. Did the thousand feet of bed take 

 only as long a forming as the 2500 ? 



"You are quite right in identifying the beds of the Scars at 

 Tarras foot as Tuedian. But at Gilnockie, the dip being steadily 

 down stream, we are in one of the higher groups. The fish and 

 plants found at Glencartholm by the Geological Survey of Scotland, 

 and afterwards visited by Dr. Traquair, &c, were described in 

 the Transactions of the Royal Society. Edinburgh by Traquair 

 (fishes) and Kidston (plants.) The fishes were mostly of new 

 species." 



Berwick. 



The Annual Meeting was held at Berwick on October 10th. 

 There was a favourable day, and a good attendance, about 40 

 being present. A visit was first paid to Mrs Barwell Carter's 

 house as in duty bound to the memory of the originator of the 

 Club, Dr Johnston. Mrs Johnston's original drawings to illus- 

 trate her husband's writings, and Miss Dickinson's excellent 

 paintings of British plants, were open for inspection. Mrs 

 Barwell Carter had also obtained from Mr William Ingram, 

 Belvoir Gardens, to show the Club, what was called the " Hop 

 Origanum." This is the Origanum Tournefortii of Sibthorpe in 

 Alton's Hort. Kew, vol. n., p. 311, 1st Edition, in., p. 42, 2nd 

 Edition, Dittany of Amorgos. This shrub was found by Tourne- 

 fort in the Island of Amorgos in the Archipelago, among rocks 

 near the monastery of the Blessed Virgin, and was introduced 

 into Britain in 1788 by John Sibthorpe, M.D , author of "Flora 

 Graeca." It is said to have the habit of Rhodiola rosea. Mr 

 Ingram had also sent Vitis hamalifolia, which bears a small grape 

 of cerulean blue, which is used for decorative purposes only. 

 Mrs. Barwell Carter also showed a series of views of the recent 

 excavations at Holy Island, and several etchings of the old 

 castles in the neighbourhood of Berwick, which were kindly sent 

 by Mr William Green, photographer, Berwick. Among other 

 curiosities was a sketch of a huge oak leaf, 1 7 inches long, which 

 Mr M. T. Culley, President of the Club, brought from Coupland.* 



The walls of Berwick were perambulated at 12.15 under the 

 guidance of Mr John Scott, Rector of the Corporation Academy, 

 and author of the History of Berwick. They began at the 

 * Club's Hist, ix., p. 321. 



