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ticularly in The Newcastle Journal, to which paper I think 

 we are much indebted for the accurate and full description 

 it generally gives of our gatherings. It also enables the 

 members to have a more full and detailed description of these 

 gatherings than could be given at the annual meeting. But 

 it takes away from the President a text on which to found 

 his annual remarks. 



Since our last annual meeting, and within the last few 

 days, we have lost the oldest member of our Club, Mr David 

 Milne Home, of Milne Graden, in the 8Gth year of his age, 

 whose date of admission to the Club was September 2l8t, 

 1886, and who therefore had been a member for the long 

 period of 54 years. Mr Milne Home was President in 

 1860-61, and had at various times, though not of late years, 

 contributed articles of interest to our Proceedings. Although 

 called to the Scottish Bar, and having held high office 

 therein in his earlier years, he was better known as an 

 enthusiastic and able scientist, being an assiduous member 

 of the Royal Geographioal and Meteorological Societies of 

 Scotland and of other learned bodies. In all his public and 

 private life he was much respected and highly esteemed for 

 his integrity and sense of justice. It is to be hoped that 

 some one, competent to undertake the task, will prepare a 

 full obituary notice to be printed in the annals of the Club. 

 Several other members have been lost to the Club since we 

 last met in this room — they are the Rev. Peter Mackerron 

 of Kelso, who joined the Club in 1867; Rev. J. Elphinstone 

 Elliot-Bates, B.A., of Milburn Hall, Northumberland, mem- 

 ber since 1868 ; Rev. George P. Wilkinson, M,A. of Har- 

 perley Park, Durham, and Henry S. Anderson, M.D., of 

 Selkirk, who joined in 1876 ; Mr John J. Horsley, 1877, who 

 was the possessor of one of the finest collections of silver 

 coins in the north of England, and was also a contributor of 

 many meteorological notices to the Club's Proceedings ; Mr 

 AUan-Swinton, of Swinton House, Berwickshire, 1877 ; the 

 Rev. Wm. Robertson, of Sprouston, 1882, of whom, who died 

 at the early age of 87, it was said at the time of his death : 

 " In him the Church of Scotland has lost one of, if not the 



