162 UEPORT OP THE MEETINGS FOR 1897 



take place on Thursday, 16th September, the company to 

 assemble at Dunbar. Mr Stephenson said he might explain 

 that as Duns would be the most convenient starting point 

 for members from that town and the west, Mr Ferguson 

 or himself would be very glad to give full information as 

 to means of transit to members who might wish to be present 

 from Duns and the west. The President said that notice of 

 nomination of the following gentlemen as members had 

 been given : — Mr Campbell Swinton of Kimmerghame ; Rev. 

 John L. Elder, Coldstream ; and Eev. W. H. Gray Smith, Fogo. 

 In addition to the usual toasts at the Club's dinners, and 

 on the motion of Mr Wilson, Chapelhill, the company heartily 

 responded to that of the health of Mr Arthur Hardy, tenant of 

 Redheugh and Dowlaw, brother of Dr Hardy, to whom the 

 Club was indebted not only for permission to meet upon 

 that farm, but also for much kind assistance in arranging and 

 preparing for the meeting that day. 



Dr Hardy had on view a list of shells (marine) found at Wark- 

 worth, between the Aln and Coquet, by Mrs Dixon, Warkworth 

 Vicarage (Aug. 12, 1897); list of shells (marine) found in Drur- 

 idge Bay, by Mrs Edw. Thew, Birling Manor (Aug. 19, 1897); 

 list of marine shells found at the top of the boulder clay 

 at Bondicar, 20 feet above high water mark, by Mr Edward 

 Thew (August 19th, 1897) ; a specimen of the giant saw-fly sent 

 from Eothbury by Mr D. D. Dixon (August 13th, 1897); 

 and another found in the house at Oldcambus Town- 

 head (August 23rd, 1897); and a specimen of Peucedanum 

 ostruthium — broad-leaved hog's fennel or masterwort, an old 

 pot herb, from a wayside at Thorntonloch. He also showed 

 some very well executed photographs of Fastcastle and 

 the rock scenery of the neighbourhood, the work of Mr James 

 Pringle, Cockburnspath, who is proving himself a photographic 

 artist of considerable skill. The Doctor had also prints of 

 engravings which are to embellish the next part of the 

 History. These included the silver girdle of " Midside Maggie" 

 of Tollishill, Ashiesteel House, and a folding chair given by Sir 

 Walter Scott to his cousin Miss Jane Russell, during a long 

 illness, and procured by him in London at a cost of £47. The 

 chair was sent to Abbotsford during Sir Walter's last illness. 



Dr Hardy reported a find of a Sandstone Cist at the 

 Picts' stone on Billymains farm, and lying open, by Mr Adam 



