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further side being densely clothed with Elder (Sambucus nigra), 

 With kind thoughtfulness their hostess had prepared tea in the 

 spacious dining-room, where she mingled with her guests in the 

 most friendly manner. After a very enjoyable hour or more, 

 and an acknowledgment to Mrs Hunter by the President of 

 the pleasure afforded by her hospitality, the last stage of 

 the journey to Dunbar was begun. 



Leaving Thurston by the West lodge, the members completed 

 their circuit of Doon Hill by driving through the fine agri- 

 cultural lands of East Barns and Barneyhill, where crops of 



turnips and potatoes were seen in the greatest 

 Club vigour, and onwards by Broxmouth to Dunbar, 



Dinner. where dinner was served in the Hotel Belle-vue 



at 5-30 p.m. In the course of it, the President 

 read a letter of apology from the venerable Earl of Haddington, 

 in which he explained that he was celebrating that day the 

 eighty-fourth anniversary of his birth, and was unable to be 

 present, but that he desired to have recorded the measurement 

 of a Sycamore (Acer- pseudo-platanus) at Tyninghame, which 

 girthed 22 feet 6 inches at 4|^ feet. It was agreed that the 

 President should acknowledge his kind letter, and offer him the 

 Club's respectful congratulations upon his birthday. The usual 

 toasts were duly honoured. It was reported that a Jay 

 {Garrtihis glandarius Linn.) had been shot at Woodbridge on 

 the Till this summer, and that a colony of them had located 

 themselves in Cawledge Woods, between Alnwick and Shil- 

 bottle, both last summer, and this. 



