^88 tlEPORT OF THE MeETII^GS FOR 1898 



BRITISH ASSOCIATION DELEGATE. 



The Secretary read the report by Mr G. P. Hughes, the 

 delegate to the meeting of the British Association at Bristol. 

 Mr Hughes was thanked for his interesting letter, and was 

 reappointed delegate for next year. 



As in former years, Mrs Barwell-Carter, daughter of the 

 late Dr George Johnston, founder of the Club, threw open 

 her house in the Woolmarket to the Club, and made mem- 

 bers welcome to view the numerous relics in her possession 

 left by her famous father, as well as many other objects 

 of interest to Naturalists. The portraits of Dr and Mrs 

 Johnston were adorned with laurel chaplets sent by Mrs 

 Weatherhead, Castlegate ; an antique Plate covered with 

 peculiar carving, and bearing the inscription — " William 

 Willebee, 1664," sent by Miss Willoby, Eavensdowne, which 

 was fixed in a carved frame executed by Miss Smith, Sandgate, 

 Berwick ; paintings of plants remarkable for their fidelity to 

 nature, by Miss Dickinson, Norham ; Indian butterflies, shown 

 by Mr W. Theodore Melville Robertson, Berwick ; and Chinese 

 symbols of the four seasons — spring, summer, autumn, winter — 

 exhibited by Miss Maclagan, niece of Mrs Barwell Carter. 

 The Chinese characters were translated into English by Miss 

 Maclagan. Although curiosities here, they are common in 

 China, and may be seen in every house — always the four. 



Dinner was served in the King's Arms, at 3-30 p.m., the 

 retiring President in the chair. In addition to the usual 

 toasts, and before that of the Club, the Chairman gave "The 

 Memory of Dr Hardy," which was received with all respectful 

 silence and solemnity. The company separated soon after 

 5 p.m., in time for trains north, west, and south, and the 

 season of 1898 thus came to an end. 



With its close, the older members felt as they parted that 

 in Dr Hardy's death a great page in the Club's history had 

 been turned, but they parted too with the resolve to pay 

 what they considered to be the best tribute to his memory, 

 in encouraging the rising generation within the Club to 

 which he was so devoted, to keep in line with 'The Progress 

 of the Age ' in the prosecution of those scientific studies, for 

 the promotion of which the Club was founded. 



