250 REPORT OF MEETINGS FOR 1908 



Half-an-hour's drive along the Kelso road, which skirts 



for some distance the ducal demesne of Floors 

 Club Castle, brought the members to the Burgh 



Dinner. town, where at the sign of the Queen's Head 



a comfortable repast awaited them. Mr Henry 

 Rutherfurd occupied the chair, and had on his right, as 

 the guest of the Club, Mr William Wood, through whose 

 kind offices a pleasant hour had been spent in the grounds 

 of Newton Don. The usual toasts were loyally pledged. 



A considerable interval after dinner remained at the 

 disposal of members travelling Eastward, which was pleasantly 

 filled up with a visit to the Museum of the Tweedside 

 Physical and Antiquarian Society under the leadership of 



Mr J. Lindsay Hilson, Kelso. A hearty welcome 

 Kelso was accorded them by Mr James Smith, Con- 



Museum, vener of the Curators, who conducted them 



over the building, some time being spent on 

 the balcony of the Library, whence a charming prospect, 

 embracing Roxburgh Castle overlooking the Teviot, was 

 presented in the glow of the setting sun. The Museum is 

 distinguished for orderly arrangement and clear definition of 

 the objects classified. Among many that might be specified, 

 the following proved most interesting. The banner of the 

 boot-makers in Kelso recalled the anniversary of St. Crispin, 

 regarding which an extract from the Kelso Records by John 

 Mason (1839) is worthy of mention. "Great preparations 

 had long been made for the celebration of St. Crispin's day 

 in 1821. The expectations formed were more than realised. 

 From an early hour in the morning crowds from the 

 adjoining country began to congregate; and it is computed 

 that not less than 3,000 persons were at various points 

 assembled to witness the spectacle. The splendour of the 

 pageantry was unequalled in a provincial town ; and from 

 the humblest retainers of the Court to the field-marshals, the 

 archbishop, and even the monarch himself — Adam Lamb, 

 who throughout the day was in ' every inch a king ' — 

 everything tended to impress the spectators as much as if 

 Royalty with its appendages had been in reality present." A 

 hurried inspection disclosed the chair of James Thomson in 

 which the Seasons is said to have been written, presented to 



