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Denholm, Broomhill, Duns ; Michael Muir, Fernlea, Selkirk ; 

 George Veitch, Brighton ; Richard Stephenson, Chapel. The 

 Rev. R. Hopper Williamson, Whickham, and two other gentle- 

 men visited Duns Castle Grounds, which were open, and 

 returned to Berwick. 



There were proposed as new Members ; Rev. J. Wood Brown, 

 M.A., Gordon ; Frank Muirhead, Paxton ; David Hall, Ingram ; 

 William Young, Berwick ; James Lockhart Wilson, M.D., 

 Duns ; George Veitch, Brighton. 



Beadnell and North Sunderland. 

 The fifth Meeting was held on September 11th, at Beadnell 

 and North Sunderland. The meeting-place was Beadnell, where 

 Mr R. T. N. Howey-Taylor had invited the Club to luncheon, 

 before conducting the company through the extensive, varied, 

 and most instructive assemblage of objects that he had been at 

 great trouble in setting out for their inspection. The party 

 arrived from three different directions ; those from Berwick and 

 Belford, by brake from Belford Station ; others by walking from 

 Chathill Station, or by private conveyances ; and the rest by 

 brake from Alnwick. At Belford, the morning broke grey and 

 cheerless, and then rain fell gently till 10 a.m., when the mist 

 thinned, and the clouds rose higher ; but during the journey, 

 umbrellas were in repeated requisition. The route was by the 

 back of Easington Crags ; and then by Outchester farm on the 

 right, and Chesterhill on the left, past Waren Mill, and House, 

 and village, and bridge, and then wheeling round Budle Bay, 

 towards Budle House, and in sight of Ross, amidst its clump of 

 trees on the flat, in the distance. Ross and Budle Cockles have 

 been long renowned ; but it is not so well known that Budle 

 Codlings were once of rival fame. Thomas Moufat or Muffett, 

 a great physician and naturalist, who flourished in the reign of 

 Queen Elizabeth, born in London, and educated at Cambridge, 

 who died about 1604, besides being the author of a Treatise on 

 Insects, (Insectorum sive Minimorum Animalium Theatrum, 

 Londini, 1634) containing several original observations, wrote a 

 book on diet, entitled " Health's Improvement." In it he pays 

 considerable attention to Fishes, and is careful to record where 

 those of best quality were obtained. Of Codlings (young Cod) 

 he says : ' ' Codlings are taken in great plenty near to Bedwell, 



