^SO REPORT OF THE MEETINGS FOR 1898 



W. Grant Guthrie, Hawick ; John Turnbull, Galashiels ; Wm. 

 Little, Galashiels ; James Smail, Edinburgh ; George E. Smail, 

 Buenos Ayres ; W. Maddan, Berwick ; Arthur Giles, D. M. Dall, 

 and A. Vert, Edinburgh ; J. A. Somervail, Broomdykes ; Joseph 

 Wilson, David Yeitch, George Fortune, and W. B. Swan, Duns; 

 James Nisbet, Lambden ; E. Carmichael, Coldstream ; George 

 Nisbet, Eumbleton ; D. Leitch, Greenlaw ; and C. S. Eomanes, 

 Edinburgh: 



The company now divided into two parties, one marching 

 across the moors by the Hule Moss to the S.W. extremity of 

 the " Bedshiel Kaims " ; the other went on cycle or in carriage 

 via Polwarth village and mill to a point short of Cattlesliiel on 

 the Duns and Westruther road, thence they footed it to the 

 N.E. end of the Kaims. The two parties met about the centre 

 of the semicircular line of these curious gravel ridges, and 

 seating themselves on the partially sheltered slope of one of 

 them, were briefly addressed by Mr J. G. Goodchild, of H.M. 

 Geological Survey, who, at the request of Captain Norman, 

 E.N., had consented to give an account of the present day's 

 scientific view of the origin of these singular formations. Mr 

 Goodchild explained that these sand and gravel ridges he 

 believed to have been deposited by ice, and not by water, as 

 was thought by previous geologists. He, however, loyally gave 

 credit to these for the facta they had collected, the matured 

 knowledge of which brought about the conclusions arrived at in 

 these latter days. Mr Goodchild having kindly promised to 

 write a special paper on the "Kaims," for the Club's Proceed- 

 ings, no further allusion need be made here to the lecturette he 

 so interestingly delivered to an appreciative audience ; the 

 closing sentences, however, being somewhat drowned by the 

 patter of a sleety shower on umbrellas and waterproofs. 



The weather throughout the day was an improvement on that 

 of the Club's last visit to Marchmont, when, says the chronicler, 

 "it was hopelessly wet." To-day, except on the Kaims, sunny 



