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Mr Eomanes, Harryburn, brought with him a Common 

 Trout with a shortened upper jaw. On this the President 

 remarks: — 'I find a similar instance in a plate in Day's 

 ' British and Irish Salmonidte,' and the malformation seems 

 to be caused by arrested development of the upper jaw, 

 produced by impeded circulation of the blood in an early 

 stage." 



Mr Walter Laidlaw showed some nice plants. 



After the meeting several of the members visited Mr 

 Elliot's garden. 



A small antiquarian item about Hermitage, such as the 

 Club delights to treasure up, is preserved in Lockhart's 

 "Memoirs of Sir Walter Scott," royal 8vo., Edinburgh, 1845, 

 p. 731. Sir Walter, in the last stage of his life, on his 

 way to Italy near the close of September 1831, spent one 

 day at Rokeby, reaching London 28th September. "Finding 

 that he had left the ring, he then usually wore, behind him 

 at one of the inns on the road, he wrote to his friend, Mr 

 Morritt, to make inquiries about it, as it had been dug out 

 of the ruins of Hermitage, and probably belonged of yore to 

 one of the ' Dark Knights of Liddesdale,' and, if recovered, 

 to keep it until he should come back to reclaim it, but in 

 the meantime to wear it for his sake. The ring, which is 

 a broad belt of silver, with an angel holdiug the heart of 

 Douglas, was found, and is now worn by Mr Morritt." This 

 keepsake probably is still preserved in Mr Morritt's family. 



Selection from a list of a few of the PlayHs indigenous to the 



Liddesdale district of Roxburghshire. liy John Elliot, 

 Newcastleton. 



Hypericum perforatum. Agrimonia eupatoria. 



quadrangulum. Galium mollugo. 



humifusum. Parnassia palustris. 



• pulchrum. Oxalis corniculata, rare. 



■ hirsutum. Campanula latifolia. 



Geranium sylvaticum. Polj'stichum aculeatum. 

 • pratense. var. lobatum. 



lucidum, etc. Lastrea Filix-mas, 



