PROCEEDINGS 



BERWICKSHIRE NATURALISTS' CLUB, 



Address delivered to the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 

 at Berwick, 17th October 1901. By Sir George B. 

 Douglas, Bart., Springwood Park, Kelso. 



Some Literary and Artistic Associations 

 OF THE Border. 



Gentlemen, 



It must be obvious, I think, to all of us that the 

 seventy years vs^hich have elapsed since the foundation of 

 our Clul) have not merely enlarged its sphere of operations, 

 but have added to the su'ujects of its study. Whether 

 the belles-lettres and fine arts come avowedly under our 

 cognizance, I must not take upon me to decide ; but I 

 submit that by our visits to the haunts of poets, our 

 careful examination of works of art brought before us 



p.NC. — VOL. xvni. ^Q, \y B 



