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movements of men to and from a redoubt upon the nearest 

 sea-cliff. A pleasant, if somewhat hurried, excursion was 

 thus brought to a close to allow of the members reaching 

 the Museum by one o'clock. To Captain Norman and his 

 Committee are due the thanks of the Club, as well as of 

 antiquarians generally, for their diligence in putting into 

 better preservation these relics of warlike times. 

 The Annual Business Meeting was thereafter held in the 



Museum, when the President delivered an 

 Annual address on "The importance of the study of 



Meeting. Local History," indicating the immense assistance 



which the Rolls and Records of Northumberland 

 might yield the diligent investigator and student. He 

 concluded by appointing Mr Henry Rutherfurd, of Fair- 

 nington, Roxburgh, to succeed him in the chair, and by 

 putting on record the names of ten members who had 

 died during his term of office. Mr Hodgson was accorded 

 a hearty vote of thanks for his valuable and instructive 

 contribution. 

 Mr Arthur H. Evans, Cambridge, having intimated his 



inability to attend again the meetings of the 

 British British Association to which he had been 



Association, twice appointed Delegate, Mr G. P. Hughes, 



Middleton Hall, Wooler, was appointed in his 



place. 

 The Editing Secretary read a summary of the Field-meetings 



held at Chillingham, Elba on Whitadder, 

 Annual Sweethope Lough, Crichton and Borthwick 



Reports. Castles, and Langleyford, all of which had 



proved very successful ; and reported that the 

 officials had been engaged in arranging the back numbers 

 of the Proceedings in the possession of the Club, with the 

 view of securing a complete set for their use. Through 

 the kind assistance of members, and others interested, all 

 of the former volumes were now in their hands with the 

 exception of the years 1844, 1846, 1848, and 1858; but as 

 these were specially scarce, and there seemed little likeli- 

 hood of their being contributed, he suggested the propriety 

 of their purchasing a complete bound copy, one of which, 

 thoroughly collated, had recently been obtained by a member 



