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Reports of the Meetings of the Berwickshire Naturalists' 

 Club for 1901. 



Visit to Hexham and Chollerford, for the Roman Wall 



AND Military Station of Cilurnum at Ohesters, 



Thursday, May 23rd 1901. 



Present : — Sir George B. Douglas, Springwood Park, Kelso, 

 President; Mr G. G. Butler, Ewart Park, VVooler, Editing 

 Secretary ; Colonel David Milne Home, Caldra, Duns, Organi- 

 zing Secretary, who was accompanied by his daughter, Miss 

 M. Milne Home; Mr Robert Blair, F.S.A., South Shields; 

 Rev. W. E. Bolland, Embleton ; Mr William B. Boyd, 

 Melrose ; Mr Thomas Craig Brown, F.S.A., Selkirk ; Dr 

 David Cahill ; Mr Cochrane, Galashiels ; Hon. and Rev. 

 William Ellis, Bothal ; Mr James Ferguson, Alnwick ; Mr 

 George Fortune, Duns ; Mr J. P. Gibson, Hexham ; Mr A. 

 Giles, Edinburgh ; Mr T. Graham, Alnwick ; Rev. Joseph 

 Hunter, Cockburnspath ; Captain and . Mrs Fullarton James, 

 Morpeth ; Mr W. Laidlaw, Jedburgh ; Mr William Little, 

 Galashiels ; Mr G. F. McNee, Edinburgh ; Mr Maddan, 

 Berwick ; Mr C. E. Moore, Alnwick ; Mr J. Lesslie Newbigin, 

 Alnwick; Captain F. M. Norman, R.N., Berwick; Mr C. 

 E. Purvis, Alnwick ; Mr R. Richardson, F.R.S.E., Edinburgh ; 

 Rev. Evan Rutter, Berwick; Mr T. B. Short, Berwick; Rev. 

 Harold J. Smith, Hexham; Mr and Mrs Thew, Warkworth; 

 Mr James Yeitch and Mrs Veitch, Jedburgh ; Mr D. McB. 

 Watson, Hawick; Mr William Weatherhead, Berwick; Mr 

 Walter Weston, Alnwick ; Mr and Mrs H. J. Willyams, 

 Alnwick ; Rev. Canon Wilsden, Wooler ; Rev. Beverley 

 Wilson, Brough, Yorkshire ; Mr Cuthbert Wilson ; Mr W. 

 E. Wilson, Hawick ; Mr A. R. Yeoman, Newcastle, and 

 friends. 



This, the first meeting of the year, was marked by very 

 fine warm weather, anticipating summer, and by an unusually 

 large concourse of members of the Club, from far and near. 

 The centres on which they converged, either by morning 

 train or on the night before, were chiefly two, Chollerford 

 and Hexham, the former centre being close to the Club's 

 first objective, namely, the Roman Station at Chesters ; the 



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