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Report of the Meetings of the Berwickshire Naturalists' 

 Club for the year 1898. By Colonel Milne Home, 

 President. 



1. — Marchmont, Polwarth, Bedshiel Kaims, Hule Moss, 

 Greenlaw. 



The first meeting was at Marchmont, on Wednesday 1st 

 June. About 30 members and a few guests arrived, by road 

 and rail, at the pretty little railway station from shortly 

 before 10 a.m' The President, with the E,ev. George Gunn, 

 Joint Secretary, and Mr G. Bolam, F.Z.S., Treasurer, were 

 present to greet and marshal the assembled members and 

 friends. 



The President first informed the company that their venerable 

 Secretary, Dr Hardy, was unable, owing to the state of his 

 health, to be present. This announcement was received with 

 universal regret. The day being the Doctor's 83rd birthday, 

 the President sent him a congratulatory telegram before the 

 Club started on its expedition. 



On entering the policies of Marchmont. the members and 

 friends were cordially welcomed by Mr Daniel Bernard, the 

 present tenant, and were conducted past the site of the old 

 house of Eedbraes through the gardens, green houses, and 

 shrubberies to the Mansion House. The points of interest 

 here being pretty much the same as when the Club visited 

 the district on August 28th 1887, reference to the Proceedings 

 of that date may here be made. Vol. ix., p. 42. On this 

 occasion special note was taken of the Meteorological Station 

 in the walled garden, particularly the "Sun Recorder," the 

 record card of which for the month of May showed an 

 unwonted paucity of heat. In the shrubberies, south west 



