PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BERWICKSHIRE NATURALISTS' CLUB, 



Address delivered to the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 

 at Berwick, 11th October 1906. By John Crawford 

 Hodgson, Esq., M.A., F.S.A., Alnwick. 



Ladies and Gentlemen, 



In the presidential address delivered from this chair 

 on September 29th 1875, the Rev. John Bigge, after 

 commending the Scottish topographical series known as 

 the Statistical History of Scotland, made certain suggestions 

 as to what might be done in Northumberland and else- 

 where to elucidate and record the history of manors, 

 parishes, and townships. He pointed out how members 

 of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, and of similar 

 societies on either side of the Border, by co-operation, 

 duly subordinated, might undertake the systematic survey 

 of their several districts, geology being taken in hand 

 by one worker, natural history by another ; whilst folk- 

 lore, field names, wells and springs of water, ecclesiastical 

 and feudal buildings, biographies of distinguished natives 

 and inhabitants, etc., might be undertaken by others. 



B.N. C. — VOL. XX. NO. I, B 



