240 ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS 



I feel sure that I need not ask for your approval of our 

 action in Coldingham Churchyard on that sad day, 



I, as President, beg to move the following Resolution : — 

 " The Members of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, 

 assembled at Berwick on the occasion of their Annual 

 Meeting on the 13th October 1898, desire to place on 

 record their sense of the great loss they have sustained in 

 the recent death of Dr James Hardy, who had during his 

 twenty-nine years of membership not only been one of the 

 Club's Presidents, but had held for twenty-seven years 

 prior to his death the post of Honorary Secretary or Joint 

 Secretary ; and they further — as an expression of their 

 personal attachment to his memory, as well as of 

 appreciation of his long service, of his many contributions 

 to the Club's Proceedings, and of his ever leady help — beg 

 respectfully to offer their profound sympathy to Mrs 

 Hardy and his relatives in their bereavement." 



Ladies and Gentlemen, Dr Hardy is not the only member 

 we have lost by death during the past year ; we have to 

 remember, too, 



1. Mr James Watson of the Abbey Close, Jedburgh, 

 who was an associate member. He wrote "Jedburgh 

 Abbey : Historical and Descriptive," and other local 

 writings, as well as editing a volume of poetry, " Living 

 Bards of the Border," to which he also contributed some 

 poems, 



2. On the other side of the Border, I have to record the 

 death of Major Browne of Callaly Castle : on two occasions 

 the Club became his guest, when he conducted the members 

 through his splendid museum. He also prepared an elaborate 

 catalogue of the art treasures in it, a copy of which he 

 presented to the Club. 



3. Coming to this side again, we regret the demise of a 

 well-known and respected member, Mr Robert Romanes of 

 Lauder, who joined in 1869, and was often seen at our 

 meetings ; he also was a contributor to our Proceedings, the 



