252 REPORT OF MEETINGS FOR 1908 



Berwick on Tweed. 



The second meeting was held at Berwick on Thursday, 

 25th June, for tlie purpose of viewing the important explora- 

 tions and renovations carried out by the Historic Monuments' 

 Committee on the fortifications of the town, and of visiting 

 the Bounds Road and Edrington. Among those present 

 were:— Captain F. M. Norman, E.N., President; Rev. J. J. 

 M. L. Aiken, B.D., Interim Secretary ; Mr W. J. Bolam, 

 Treasurer; Mrs Anderson, and Misses Anderson, The Thirlings, 

 Wooler ; Miss A. N. Cameron, Duns; Rev. C. J. Cowan, B.D., 

 and Mrs Cowan, Morebattle ; Rev. Matthew Culley, Coupland 

 Castle; Miss Dickinson, Norham ; Mrs Erskine, Melrose; 

 Major James Farquharson, Edinburgh ; Rev. Matthew Forster, 

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

 Hepburn ; Misses Milne Home, Paxton ; Mr William Maddan, 

 Berwick ; Mr William J. Marshall, Berwick ; Rev. Wm. S. 

 Moodie, Ladyliirk ; Mr Benjamin Morton, Sunderland; Dr 

 Jas. N. McDougall, Coldingham ; Mr John Prentice, Berwick ; 

 Miss Jessie Prentice, Swinton Quarter; Mr Andrew Riddle, 

 Yeavering; Mr T. B. Short, Berwick; Miss Simpson, Cold- 

 ingham ; Mr Jas. A. Sotnervail, Hoselaw ; Mr Philip SuUey, 

 Galashiels; Mr James P. SuUey, London; Miss Turnbull, 

 Faldonside ; Mr John Turnbull, Galashiels ; Mr William 

 Weatherhead, and Mr Edward Willoby, Berwick. 



To facilitate the explanation of the scheme of fortification 

 illustrated in the walls of the Border town, the President 

 met the members in the Museum at 11-30, where with the 

 aid of diagrams he gave a lucid description of the plan 

 adopted in the construction of the Elizabethan Walls, of 



