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Cowport Gate where the perambulation ceased last year, and 

 went round the rest of the Ramparts, the most interesting 

 portions of which were indicated by Mr Scott. 



The meeting took place in the museum about 1.15 p.m., when 

 there were present : Mr M. T. Culley, Coupland Castle, President ; 

 Mr James Hardy, Secretary ; Mr Eobert Middlemas, Treasurer ; 

 Major-General Sir William Crossman, R.E., K.C.M.G., M.P. ; 

 Colonel Forster, Castlehills ; Rev. William Dobie, Lady kirk ; 

 Rev. Peter Mearns, Coldstream ; Rev. J. Stark, South Shields ; 

 Rev. Evan Rutter, Spittal ; Sir George Douglas, Bart., Spring- 

 wood Park ; Mr George P. Hughes, Middleton Hall ; Mr James 

 T. Mack, Coveyheugh ; Mr George H. Thompson, Alnwick ; Mi- 

 Adam Robertson, Alnwick ; Mr James Heatley, Alnwick ; Mr 

 William Wilson, Berwick ; Mr Robert Weddell, Berwick ; Mr 

 E. Willoby, junr., Berwick ; Mr James Thomson, Shawdon; Mr 

 William Weatherhead, Berwick ; Mr J. L. Newbigin, Alnwick ; 

 Mr R. G. Bolam, Berwick ; Mr George Bolam. Berwick ; Mr 

 John Bolam, Bilton House ; Mr John Scott, Berwick ; Mr Adam 

 Robertson, junr., Alnwick ; Mr John Dunlop, Norham ; Mr 

 William Robertson, Alnwick ; Mr William T. Hindmarsh, 

 Alnwick ; Mr John Ferguson, Duns ; Mr George Fortune, Duns ; 

 Mr John Broadway, Berwick ; Mr William Lyall of the Literary 

 and Philosophical Society, Newcastle ; Mr Peter Loney, 

 Marchmont. The Club was honoured on this occasion with the 

 presence of a number of ladies, including Mrs Culley, Coupland 

 Castle ; Mrs Muirhead, Paxton ; Miss Smail, Berwick ; Miss 

 Dickinson, Norham, etc. 



The President opened the proceedings by reading the Annual 

 Address, and at the conclusion, handed to the Secretary a few 

 Natural History Notes, and the fac-simile of the enormous Oak- 

 leaf grown at Coupland. Mr Hardy the secretary then read the 

 Proceedings of the various meetings during the year ; and then 

 called attention to the photos and drawings brought to the 

 meeting by Mr Thomson, Shawdon ; including Crawley Tower, 

 Edlingham Castle and Church, the Corbie Crag ; the King of 

 the Woods ; also drawings by Mr H. P. Taylor of a Roasting 

 Implement, and the Water Bougets of the Lilburns from Shawdon, 

 and other objects of antiquarian interest collected during the 

 season. 



The following new members were elected : Major-General J. 

 J. Boswell, C.B., Darnlee, Melrose ; Mr Hugh Macpherson 

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