232 Report of the Meetings for 1895. 



Mr Elliot, who had guided the Club on its first visit to 

 the Hermitage, 26th June 1 869 — when a combined meeting 

 with the Dumfries and Galloway Natural History Society 

 was held — has furnished a list, so far as he can recollect, 

 of the plants of the vicinity, from which a selection is here 

 subjoined, that may afford hints of what may be expected 

 from a new survey. The nomenclature may also require 

 revision. Sir Walter Elliot, who was President of the Club 

 in 1869, has written an ample account of the meeting of 

 that year, in which also the history of Hermitage is detailed, 

 illustrated by two plates — one by Lady Elliot. See Club's 

 Hist., VI., pp. 19-43. Additional particulars may be found 

 in Mr Robert Bruce Armstrong's History of Liddesdale and 

 the Debateable Land, which is dedicated to Sir Walter 

 Elliot, Part i., pp. 123-146. Should the Club meditate 

 another visit, Messrs McGibbon & Ross are willing to place 

 their plates and plans of the architecture of Hermitage 

 Castle at the Club's service. The whole of the Liddel 

 valley calls for a competent botanical investigation. 



The dinner was at the Commercial Inn, where everything 

 was satisfactory. There were present: — W. T. Hindmarsh, 

 F.L.S., President, Alnwick ; Charles S. Romanes, Busking 

 Burn. Coldingham ; Alexander Bowie, Canonbie ; David McB. 

 Watson, Hawick; Dr Stevenson Macadam, F.R.S.E., Edin- 

 burgh; Francis Lynn, F.S.A. Scot., Galashiels; John Turnbull, 

 Royal Hank. Galashiels ; Henry Rutherfurd, Fairnington ; 

 R. Somervaile, Charlesfleld, St. Boswells; F. E. Rutherford, 

 Hawick ; John Brown and John Elliot, Newcastleton ; Robert 

 Romanes, F.S.A. Scot., Harryburn, Lauder; Rev. John 

 Walker, Whalton Rectory: Rev. James A. Sharrock, Stockton- 

 on-Tees; G. B. Anderson, Selkirk; Walter Jjaidlaw, Abbey, 

 Jedburgh ; Johannes Albe, Duns ; Andrew Waugh, Hawick ; 

 Miss Margaret Lauder, Ferniehirst, Stow ; John Thin, Fernie- 

 hirst. Stow ; Rev. Ambrose Jones, Stannington ; Rev. George 

 Gunn, Stichill ; John Turnbull, Selkirk; Thomas Smail, 

 Jedburgh ; George Hardy, Oldcambus ; Thomas Simson, Lily 

 Bank, Jedburgh; W. Grant Guthrie, Hawick; Mrs Scott, 

 Queen Mary's House, Jedburgh ; Mrs Simson, Lily Bank, 

 Jedburgh. 



Rev. Arthur Pollok, B.D., Lilliesleaf, was proposed as a 

 member. 



