452 Report of Meetings for 1889. By Dr. J. Hardy. 



Alnwick ; Mr R. Amos, Alnwick ; Mr G. Bolam, Bilton House, 

 Lesbury ; Mr W. B. Boyd of Faldonside ; Dr. Charles Douglas, 

 Kelso ; Mr J. B. Boyd of Cherrytrees ; Eev. David Paul, Rox- 

 burgh ; Mr John Turnbull of Abbey St. Bathans ; Major Paton 

 ofCrailing; Mr Frank Chrisp, Prendwick; Mr George Thomp- 

 son, Reaveley ; etc. 



Mr George H. Thompson exhibited two curious brass patellas 

 or skillets that had been found while draining near Felton. 

 Each of them had been hammered out of one sheet of brass. 

 Photos have been secured of both, for illustrations, when room 

 can be afforded. A few antiquarian objects have been found at 

 Reaveley, within recent years ; among others a brass three-legged 

 pot, and a copper-bowl filled with coins, which are now at 

 Harehope. 



The following were proposed as members at this meeting. 

 1, the Rev. Charles F. Thorp, Beadnell Vicarage, Chathill ; 2, 

 H. H. Craw, West Foulden, Berwick ; 3, Major A. H. Browne 

 of Callaly Castle, Whittingham ; 4, Capt. Walter Macmillan 

 Scott of Wauchope, Roxburgh ; 5, John Cay, W.S., Edinburgh ; 

 6, George Logan Broomfield, writer, Lauder ; 7, Lieut.-Colonel 

 Rowley R. C. Hill, 31st Regt, Lowlynn, Beal ; 8, Gerard F. 

 Towlerton Leather, Middleton Hall, Belford ; 9, the Right Hon. 

 Earl Percy, Alnwick Castle ; 10, Frank 0. Chrisp, Prendwick, 

 Northumberland ; 11, George Dixon Atkinson Clark of Belford 

 Hall; 12, Richard Welford, Gosforth, Newcastle; 13, Dr. 

 Robert Barker Robson, Alnwick ; 14, George Tate, Brotherwick, 

 VVarkworth ; 15, Rev. Robert Mitford Ilderton, Whitburn, 

 Sunderland; 16, Rev. William Meyler Warlow, Kelso; 17, 

 Robert Redpath, Journal Office, Newcastle ; 18, Rev. William 

 Taylor, Whittingham; 19, Andrew Thompson, Glanton;.20, 

 John Cairns, Alnwick. 



Several searches were made in the neighbourhood for a few 

 days previous and subsequent to the meeting, for which room 

 cannot be found iu detail. Suffices for the present to say, that 

 the Bird's Nest Orchis {Neottia nidus-avis) was picked up in 

 Eslington Park (by Mr W. B. Boyd) ; the Broad-leafed Helle- 

 borine (Epipactis latifolia) in the damp clayey woods on the Aln, 

 Coe and Edlingham burns ; the Roebuck-berry {Rubus saxatilis) 

 in Broad Wood on the Coe burn, and in Brislee wood ; Listera 

 ovata and Carduus heterophyllus in Broad wood ; L. cordata on the 

 heaths at Blackcock Hill, and on the Coe Crags, &c. ; Vaccinium 



