256 REPORTS OF MEETINGS FOR 1911 



St. Boswells for Lilliesleaf, Riddell and Bowden. 



The meeting at Blanchland, which was originally fixed for 

 24th August, having had to be abandoned on account of a 

 persistent strike among the employees on the North Eastern 

 Railway, the fourth meeting of the year was held at St. 

 Boswells on Wednesday, 20th September, when the following 

 were present: — Rev. James F. Leishman, M.A., President; 

 Rev. J. J. M. L. Aiken, B.D., Secretary; Mrs. Anderson, 

 The Thirlings ; Mr. Walter Arras and Mrs. Arras, Melrose ; 

 Mr. Wm. B. Boyd, Miss Boyd and Miss Boyd Wilson, Fal- 

 donside ; Mr. Richard Brown, Hangingshaw ; Rev. John 

 Burleigh, Ednam ; Rev. John Burr, M.A., Bowden; Miss A, 

 M. Cameron, Duns; Mr. Robert Carmichael and Mrs. Car- 

 michael, Coldstream ; Mr. Gilbert D. Davidson and Mrs. 

 Davidson, Melrose ; Hannah, Lady Eliott, MaxpofHe ; Mrs. 

 Erskine, Melrose ; Major James Farquharson, Edinburgh ; 

 Professor George A. Gibson, LL.D., Glasgow University; Mrs. 

 Leishman, Linton ; Mr. Wm. Little, Galashiels ; Mr. William 

 J. Marshall and Miss Marshall, Berwick ; Mr. Leslie Newbigin 

 and Mrs. Newbigin, Alnwick ; Mr. Andrew Riddle, Yeavering ; 

 Mr. James Romanes, Melrose; Mr. Henry Rutherfurd and 

 Miss Rutherfurd, Fairnington ; Miss Rutherfurd, Melrose ; 

 Rev. A. P. Sym, B.D., LilHesleaf; Mr. John Turnbull, Gala- 

 shiels ; Mr. David Veitch and Mrs. Veitch, Duns ; and Mr. 

 Joseph Wilson, Duns. 



A succession of grateful showers after weeks of excessive 

 drought — no rain of conseofuence having fallen since Saturday 

 24th June — threatened to mar the full enjoyment of a drive 

 through the beautiful Borderland, but by 11-15, when members 



