164 REPORTS OF MEETINGS FOR 1910 



Mr J. Lindsay Hilson moved, and Captain Norman, R.N., 



seconded, that in view of the increasing amount 

 Finance of work devolving upon liim, the Treasurer be 



Committee, offered the assistance of a Finance Committee, 



consisting of Captain Norman, and Messrs 

 Lindsay Hilson and W. Weatherhead. This was agi-eed to. 

 The Secretary laid on the table a copy of a History of 



Kelso Grammar School, which the author, Mr 

 Donations James Smith, Kelso, had presented to the Club ; 

 and Com- also, a copy of a beautifully illustrated account 

 munications. of the history and structural features of Belsay 



Castle, of which Sir Arthur E. Middleton, Bart., 

 asked the Club's acceptance in remembrance of their recent 

 visit. A letter from Mr John Ferguson, Duns, was read in 

 which he urged the advisability of the Club's obtaining per- 

 mission from the Council of the Surtees Society to reproduce 

 in their Proceedings the "Journal of John Aston, a Cheshire 

 gentleman, who was with King Charles I. when he lay in 

 leaguer near Berwick in 1639, and who visited the Covenanters' 

 encampment on Dims Law in that year," which had been 

 published in a recent volume of that Society, edited by Mr J. C. 

 Hodgson, M.A. It was agreed that the application should 

 be made. The Secretary reported that on his representation 

 of the unstable condition of one of the five remaining specimens 

 of Pinus pinea on the railway embankment near Dunglass, 

 the North British Railway Company had undertaken "to 

 endeavour to suppoi't the trees in question, so as to preserve 

 them as long as possible." Captain Norman exhibited a faked 

 arrow-head which had been manufactured in the South of 

 England for the purposes of sale. 



A motion, proposed by Mr Henry Rutherfurd and seconded 



by the President, that the thanks of the Club 



be accorded to Captain Norman for his services 

 * ■ in connection with the Flodden Memorial scheme, 

 was unanimously adopted. 



A few of the members adjourned to the Red 

 Club Lion Hotel, where dinner was served at 2-30 



Dinner. p.m., and the customary toasts were loyally 



pledged. 



