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on the walls of the National Gallery ; and of Henry Heneage 

 St. Paul, the Colonel of the "Cheviot Legion," who was also 

 in troublous days Secretary to the Viceroy of Ireland, and 

 was at one time M.P. for Berwick. 



Of the Cheviot Legion, which was raised in 1804, at the 

 time of the French scare and disbanded in 1812, there 

 were left as mementoes a stand of 37 bayonetted flintlocks, 

 and the colours, which were presented on the Drill field near 

 Wooler Cottage by Mrs Butler's great- grandmother. 



A collection of stone, iron, and bronze implements, an old 

 cavalry trumpet, antlers of Red Deer and Irish Elk {Megacarus 

 hibernicus), and an urn found in a cutting near Akeld Station 

 during the construction of the railway, were among the 

 numerous articles noticed. 



In the afternoon the company, passing through the old- 

 fashioned gardens, went slowly to " the Wilderness," the 

 name given to a fine grove of some extent, where botanists 

 found plenty of Symphytum tuberosum, Linn. ; Neckera claviculata, 

 D. C, ; Goody era repens, Br. ; and Fyrola minor, Sw. 



By 4 p.m. almost all who had been present throughout the 

 day re-assembled for dinner at the Cottage Hotel, Wooler. 

 The President was in the chair, and was supported by his 

 staff, with the exception of Dr Hardy. He, of course, was 

 much missed, and general regret was felt that his health 

 did not yet permit him to rejoin the Club's field parties. 



The following members and friends were present : — Colonel 

 Milne Home, Caldra, President ; Mr and Mrs Butler, Ewart ; 

 Mr Eobert Middlemas, Alnwick ; Rev. Canon J. S. Wilsden, 

 Wooler ; Rev. G. Gunn, Joint Secretary ; Mr G. Bolam, 

 F.Z.S., Berwick, Treasurer ; Messrs G. P. Hughes, Middleton 

 Hall; R. G. Bolam, W. Maddan, Dr Cahill, Berwick-on-Tweed ; 

 W. T. Hindmarsh, F.L.S., and John Cairns, Alnwick; H. 

 Rutherford, Fairnington ; J. C. Hodgson, Warkworth ; R. G. 

 Huggup, Low Burradon ; An«:lrew Thompson, Glanton ; Revs. 

 Hugh Fleming, Mordington ; Thomas Porteous, Gordon ; James 

 Fairbrother, Amble Rectory ; Messrs Henry Paton, Arthur 

 Giles, and James Small, Edinburgh ; D. Hume, Thornton ; John 

 Turnbull, Galashiels ; Edward Thew, Birling ; Joseph Oliver, 

 Eslington Park ; R. Stephenson, Chapel ; James A. Somervail, 



