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land ; Rev. David Paul, LL.D., and Master Paul, Edinburgh ; 

 Mr Campbell Renton, Mordington ; Mr A, Riddell, Yeavering ; 

 Mr Romanes, Edinburgh ; Mr F. E. Rutherford, Hawick ; 

 Mr H. Rutherford, Roxburgh ; Mr Stephen Sanderson, Berwick ; 

 Mr W. J. Short ; Mr David Simpson, London ; Mr R. H. 

 Simpson, Alnwick ; Mr J, A Somervail, Kelso ; Rev. George 

 Sprott, D.D., North Berwick ; Lieut-General John Sprot, Mrs, 

 and Miss Sprot, Lilliesleaf ; Mr J. Turnbull, Galashiels ; Mr 

 Christopher Trennard ; Mr D. Veitch, and Miss Veitch, Duns ; 

 Mr George Veitch, and one friend, Edinburgh ; Rev. Canon 

 Walker, Newcastle ; Mr E G. Wheler, and two friends, 

 Alnwick ; Mr E. Willoby, and two friends, Berwick ; Mr H. 

 J. Willyams, Alnwick ; Mr Joseph Wilson, and Miss Wilson, 

 Duns. 



Most of the naturalists, having assembled at East Linton, 

 had before them a drive of ten or twelve miles before reaching 

 that part of the Haddington coast which immediately faces 

 the Bass Rock, but this journey was pleasantly interrupted, 

 at an early stage, by a halt at Smeaton- Hepburn, the seat 

 of Sir Archibald Buchan-Hepburn, where he, and some other 

 members who had spent the earlier morning with him, joined 

 our main body, and all, under the guidance of the owner, 

 strolled through the gardens and plantations near the house, 

 and round the lake, and saw here a good example of what 

 arboriculture may do, when wisely managed, for the adornment 

 of a country seat. The weather was not altogether kind, and 

 made a great contrast with that which marked in genial 

 fashion the fix'st meeting of the year ; but though dull enough 

 and threatening now, it did not show its worst complexion 

 until later in the day. Reinforced now bj' Sir Archibald and 

 his guests, we moved on towards the Firth of Forth in the 

 direction of North Berwick, passing Balgone on our left some 

 distance beyond Smeaton-Hepburn, and as we drove along the 

 country road the walls at each side and on the land around 

 gave us a glimpse of the geology of the district. Some were 

 built of sandstone, quarried from the Lower Carboniferous 

 strata of the neighbourhood, and others were of black whin- 

 stone, a rock of igneous origin ; and Mr Goodchild, our 

 geological mentor, pointed out a ravine, in one of the fields 



