60 REPORTS OF MEETINGS FOR 1909 



Berwick. 



The annual Business Meeting was held in the Museum, 

 Berwick, on 14th October at one o'clock, when the folio wing- 

 were present : — Dr R. Shirra Gibb, President ; Rev. J. J. M. L. 

 Aiken, B.D., Secretary; Mr G. G. Butler, Ewart Park; Mr 

 R. H. Dodds, Berwick ; Mr J. Lindsay Hilson, Kelso ; Mr Wm. 

 Maddan, Berwick ; Mr Wni. J. Marshall, Berwick ; Colonel 

 Milne Home, Caldra ; Dr James McWhir, Swinton ; Captain 

 Norman, R.N., Berwick ; Miss Jessie Prentice, Swinton Quarter ; 

 Mr Henry Rutherfurd, Fairnington ; Mr T. B. Short, Berwick ; 

 and Rev. R. T>. E. Stevenson, Ancroft Moor. Apologies for 

 absence were intimated from Mr David H. W. Askew, Berwick ; 

 Mr John Caverhill, Jedneuk ; Rev. Matthew Culley, Coupland 

 Castle ; Lady Eliott of Stobs ; Miss C. Greet, Norham ; and 

 Mr J. C. Hodgson, Alnwick. 



The President delivered his Annual Address, choosing for 



his subject "Natural pasture lands, and how 

 President's they become botanically altered by age and 

 Address. treatment," in the course of which he enlarged 



upon the results of experimental farming gener- 

 ally, illustrating his remarks by means of fresh sods in 

 three stages of progression, cut from his farm at Boon. He 

 nominated Rev. Matthew Culley of Coupland Castle, North- 

 umberland, as his successor in the chair. On the motion of 

 Mr Henry Rutherfurd he was thanked for his instructive 

 Address and his diligence in the conduct of the meetings 

 during his term of oifice. 



