Report of the Meetings for 1894. 8l 



Gordon. 



Our fifth and last field meeting for the year was fixed 

 for Mellerstain, on Wednesday, 12th September. The day 

 was bright and bracing. 



There attended: — Eev. George Gunn, President; Mr W. 

 B. Boyd, Faldonside ; Dr Stuart, Chirnside ; Captain Norman, 

 R.N., Berwick; Colonel and Miss Brown, Longformacus; 

 Captain Macmillan Scott, Wauchope ; TJev. Messrs Beverley 

 Wilson, Branlingham Vicarage ; Hunter, Cockburnspath ; and 

 Burleigh, Ednam ; Messrs W. T. Hindmarsh, F.L.S., W. E. 

 Hindmarsh, James Heatley, and George Pigg, Alnwick ; R. 

 H. Dunn, Earlston ; Dr Shirra Gibb, Boon; A. H. Evans, 

 Scremerston; G. Bolam, F.Z.S., Berwick; Andrew Waugh, 

 Hawick; William Steele, Glasgow; James Wood, Galashiels; 

 John Turnbull, Selkirk ; John Ferguson, Duns ; Eichard 

 Stephenson, Chapel; S. D. Elliot, S.S.C., Edinburgh; James 

 Thomson, Shawdon ; Mr Yeitch, Edinburgh ; and Herr Johannes 

 Albe, Duns. Amongst the guests were Surgeon Major- 

 Genoral Lithgow ; Eev. Thomas Porteous, Gordon ; Messrs 

 Marshall and Mr A. D. Pimbury, Stroud. 



Some members, who had arrived at Gordon by the earlier 

 trains, visited the Church and Churchyard on the invitation 

 of the Eev. Mr Porteous, the minister of the parish. There 

 is little about Gordon to add to the reports of our former 

 meetings there, for which see Proceedings, Vol. ix., p. 226, etc. 

 The present Church was probably erected in 1763, which is 

 also the date on the Communion Cups. The Minutes of the 

 Kirk Session are extremely interesting, dating from 1689-1708, 

 and then from 1818 onwards. The quaint inscription on the 

 tombstone in the churchyard, in memory of a teacher in 

 Greenlaw, has been incorrectly printed in Vol. ix., p. 227, of 

 our Proceedings, where Greenlaw requires to be substituted 

 for Gordon. The village is the only one in Berwickshire 

 which recorded an increasing population at the census of 

 1891. Many houses are now being rebuilt, which is, of 

 course, to be attributed to the prosperity of the inhabitants, 

 rather than "to the facility of obtaining fuel from a 

 neighbouring bog," as is gravely stated in The Gazetteer of 

 Scotland. 



It was fiot long ere we proceeded on our walk to Mellerstain, 



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