REPORT OF THE MEETINGS FOR 1899 5*7 



himself. He saw by the newspapers that the insect seemed 

 to be quite common in the north this year. Mr Tate added 

 that he had been told of the appearance in that neighbour- 

 hood recently of the Broad-bordered Bee Hawk Moth, but 

 he had not seen the specimen. There was also exhibited 

 a bronze spear-head, found by John Hood, wood cutter, 

 Rutherford, and sent by Mr Jackson, merchant, Kelso, a 

 notice of which, with illustration, will appear in the present 

 number. 



The Club had three times previously visited the Fames, 

 viz., in 1854, in 1866, and in 1884, and Mr George Tate's 

 long and exhaustive report upon the islands, which was 

 printed in Vol. iii. of the Club's History, as well as 

 Captain Norman's later account of the 1884 meeting (Vol. 

 X.) may be referred to for much interesting detail con- 

 cerning the history of the islands. 



On our arrival at the Inner Fame, where as usual the 

 steamer was moored under the shelter of the eastern shore, 

 the party was joined by boats from North Sunderland, 

 bringing off with them a further consignment of members 

 who found it more convenient to travel by that route, and 

 including Mr H. A. Paynter of Alnwick, through whose 

 kind offices full permission had been obtained for the Club 

 to land where they liked, and to visit the breeding stations 

 of the different birds. Unfortunately, however, the sea 

 was too rough to permit of a landing being effected at 

 more than one or two of the smaller islands, but on the 

 Noxes and Wedums members had an opportunity of closely 

 inspecting the nests of the Terns, Eider Ducks, Puffins, 

 and Gulls. 



The majority of the company meanwhile entertained them- 

 selves on the Inner Fame by an inspection of the ancient 

 ecclesiastical remains ; two stone coffins lying in front of St. 

 Cuthbert's Chapel ; the monument to Grace Darling ; and 

 the Churn, a large fissure in the basalt where the waves 



