50 REPORTS OF MEETINGS FOR 1909 



Rutherford, for Monteviot and Ancrum. 



The fifth meeting was held on Wednesday, 22nd September, 

 when the members assembled at Kelso Station, where carriages 

 were waiting at 9-35 a.m., the route adopted being by Maxwell- 

 heugh and the South bank of the Tweed. Heavy rain had 

 fallen during night, and a thick fog hung about the up-lands, 

 but signs were not wanting that the day might brighten, an 

 anticipation made good during the course of the excursion. 

 Among those present during the day were the following : — 

 Mr Henry R-utherfurd, Fairnington, who discharged the duties of 

 President in the unavoidable absence of Dr R. Shirra Gibb ; Rev. 

 J. J. M. L. Aiken, B.D., Secretary ; Rev. James Baikie, Ancrum ; 

 Mrs Bertalot, Ayton ; Mr Wm. B. Boyd, Faldonside ; Mr G. G. 

 Butler, Ewart Park ; Mr J. Cairns, Alnwick ; Mr R. Carmichael, 

 and Mrs Carmichael, Coldstream ; Mr John and Mr Wm. R. 

 Caverhill, Jedneuk ; Mr G. D. Davidson, and Mrs Davidson, 

 Melrose ; Mr William Dunn, and Mrs Dunn, Redden ; Lady 

 Eliott and party, Maxpoffle ; Mi\g Erskine, Melrose ; Major 

 James Farquharson, Edinburgh ; Mr George Fortune, and Mrs 

 Fortune, Duns; Miss Gibb, Boon; Mr Arthur Giles, Edinburgh; 

 Mr T. Graham, Alnwick ; Major Heron-Maxwell, and Misses 

 Heron-Maxwell, Teviotbank ; Mr J. Lindsay Hilson, Kelso ; 

 Mr Oliver Hilson, J.P., Jedburgh ; Mr Walter Laidlaw, Jed- 

 burgh ; Mr Hugh Leadbetter, Legerwood ; Mr William Maddan, 

 Berwick ; Misses Milne-Home, Paxton ; Mr Henry Paton, 

 Edinburgh ; Mr Andrew Riddle, Yeavering ; Mr George A. 

 Russell, Glen Douglas ; Mr T. B. Short, Berwick ; Mr James A. 

 Somervail and pai"ty, Hoselaw ; Mr R. Colley Smith, Ormiston ; 

 Rev. R. D. E. Stevenson, Ancroft Moor ; Mr John Turnbull, 

 Galashiels ; Mr James Veitch, Jedburgh ; and Mr Thomas 

 Wilson, and Mrs Wilson, Roberton. 



