t{,EPORt OF MEETINGS FOk l907 i8o 



hear that you are taking care of my Oaks, and transplanting 

 them to LLethpjijlo. If ever I get back, I will plant a good 

 deal there in patches." Of these it is believed that many 

 are now covering the hill immediately above the ancient 

 pele-tower. On the White Hill to the West indications of 

 an early type of agriculture may be traced in the terraces 

 or baulks which rise in regular tiers to its summit, and on 

 many of the eminences which skirt the valley of the Colledge 

 may be seen the circular camps and out-posts, which like 

 those on the adjacent Yeaveiing Bell bear witness to the 

 industry and artifice of pre-historic settlers. The weather 

 having greatly improved after mid-day, a very enjoyable ramble 

 by the river filled in the interval before the hour of departure 

 from Kiiknewton. 



Many of the party returned to the CoUingwood Arms Hotel, 

 Cornhill, where dinner was served at 4 p.m., 

 Club and the customary toasts were duly pledged. 



Dinner. As a considerable margin of time before the 



departure of the evening trains was at their 

 disposal, the President called on Mr. George P. Hughes, 

 Middleton Hall, to read his report of the meetings of the 

 British Association at Leicester, to which he had been 

 appointed delegate. In the course of his remarks he intimated 

 that he had also been entrusted with the representation of the 

 Northumberland and Durham Natural History Society, and 

 referred in appreciative terms to the Presidential Address of 

 Sir David Gill, F.R.S., treating of the latest developments 

 of astronomical science, iu which he is an acknowledged 

 leader. 



Nominations in favour of Mr James Nairne McDougall, 

 Nomina- M.D., Coldingham, and Miss Amelia Nisbet 



tions. Cameron, Trinity, Duns, were duly intimated. 



