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Dalkeith, for Crichton and Borthwick Castles. 



The Fourth Excursion for the year took place on Thursday, 

 23rd August, at Dalkeith, the most convenient rendezvous 

 for the long programme to be gone through. An interlude 

 of sunshine, after days of heavy rain and fog, greeted the 

 members as they assembled at Eskbank Station on the arrival 

 of the 9-52 train from Edinburgh, where carriages were in 

 waiting. A large contingent availed themselv^es of this means 

 of conveyance, but others joined the party in their own 

 carriages and on foot. Among a company, which in the course 

 of the day numbered nearly sixty, were the following: — Mr 

 J. C. Hodgson, F.S.A., President; Captain Norman, E.N., 

 Organizing Secretary; Eev. J. J. M. L. Aiken, B.D., Editing 

 Secretary ; Misses Aiken, Ayton ; Mr J. P. Alison, D'Arcy, 

 Dalkeith ; Mr John Barr, Berwick ; Mrs Bertalot, Linnhead ; 

 Eev. Thomas A. Bickerton, B.D., Borthwick; Mr "William B. 

 Boyd, and Miss Boyd, Faldonside ; Dr N. T. Brewis, 

 Edinburgh ; Sir Archibald Buchan-Hepburn, Bart., Smeaton- 

 Hepburn; Eev. J. C. Carrick, B.D., Newbattle ; Mr John 

 Caverhill, Jedneuk ; Eev. James Cooper, D.D., Glasgow 

 College ; Mr James Hewat Craw, Foulden West Mains ; 

 Mr E. Dickinson, Berwick; Mr S. Douglas Elliot, S.S.C., and 

 Mrs Douglas Elliot, Edinburgh ; Major Farquharson, Edin- 

 burgh ; Mr John Ferguson, Duns ; Mr J. Geddie, Edinburgh ; 

 Dr William Geddie, Accrington ; Dr E. Shirra Gibb, Boon ; 

 Mr Arthur Giles, Edinburgh ; Mr G. Henderson, Upper Keith ; 

 Mr Eobert Home, Edinburgh ; Mr Bruce J. Home, Edinburgh ; 

 Mr James Hood, Linnhead ; Mr H. M. Leadbetter, Legerwood ; 

 Mr James Lyle, Edinburgh ; Mr William Maddan, and Mr 



