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meeting he would have a further report to submit as to 

 the form of window the Committee might be able to suggest 

 should be adopted. The action of the Committee was 

 approved. 



Several gentlemen were nominated for election to the 

 membership of the Club. 



Mr Paton, of the Eegister House, Edinburgh, exhibited 

 a number of old Wedderburn charters of the time of 

 Robert the Bruce. Dr Stuart, Chirnside, had an interesting 

 vasculum of flowers grown by himself. These included 

 Daphne fioniana ; Daphne neorum ; Hybrid golden tufted 

 pansies (Stuart) ; Erica mediterranea from Urrisbeg, Conne- 

 mara; Aquilegia stuarti, " Connemara " ; Gentiana verna ; Blue 

 primrose (Q-. F. Wilson strain); Hybrid priraula, "General" 

 (Stuart) new, scarlet. (Dr Stuart had an invitation from 

 Sir Trevor Lawrence, President of the Eoyal Horticultural 

 Society, London, to attend the conference of Hybridists, 

 from over Great Britain and the Continent, at Chiswick, to 

 read a paper on his work, and attend the banquet at the 

 Hotel Metropole, London.) Mr Tom Scott, A.R.S.A., sliowed 

 a large collection of local antiquities, comprising stone spear- 

 heads, arrow-heads, axes, hammers, etc. One particularly 

 fine green quartzite axe was shown, which had been found 

 near Greenlaw. 



