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Report of the Meetings of the Berwickshire Naturalists 

 Club for the year 1890. By James Hardy, LL.D. Edin. 



Beanley. 



[The Eeport of this Meeting requires delicate handling on my 

 part, as I have partly to give an account of the field work of the 

 day, and partly to be reported on. To avoid self -commendation, 

 I shall in the opening and the conclusion adopt the report of the 

 Newcastle Daily Journal, of which a corrected copy for the pur- 

 pose has been handed to me by Sir William Grossman. The 

 intermediate events I shall take my own method of relating. 

 Appended to the Report is a selection from the Notes of Mr 

 George Tate, F.G.S., hitherto unpublished, which renders it 

 unnecessary to describe the two principal Camps visited (Beanley 

 Hill and the Eingses) and supplies some particulars and data 

 about Kemmer Lough, and some of the Geological characteristics 

 of the neighbourhood.] 



The first Meeting of the season uf the Club took place at 

 Beanley, Northumberland, on Wednesday, May 28th, and was 

 marked by a pleasing and memorable incident in the presentation 

 of a handsome testimonial to the veteran Secretary of the Society, 

 Dr James Hardy of Oldcambus, Cockburnspath. Lovely weather 

 favoured the day's proceedings, which were commenced at 

 Beanley between nine and ten o'clock, when breakfast was served 

 to all comers by the kindness of Mr Ealph Storey-Storey, Mr 

 A. K. D. Moffatt, and Mrs Logan of Beanley, whose hospitality 

 was gracefully acknowledged on behalf of those who had par- 

 taken of it by Mr Eobert Middlemas. Under the guidance of 

 Mr James Tait of the Belford Estate Offices, the party moved 

 up the hill, by the Havingtons, to the remains of a British 

 Camp, near the summit of Beanley Hill, whence a comprehensive 

 view was obtained of the Eglingham Valley on the right, and 

 on the other hand the Breamish Vale, stretching away in the far 

 distance to the Cheviot range, around the conical shaped hills of 

 which there hung a hazy mist, which added to rather than 

 diminished the picturesque nature of the prospect. Of the camp 

 itself little was to be seen, even the remnant stones being for 

 the greater part covered with a luxuriant growth of moss and 

 heather. Journeying eastward on the side of the slope Mr Tait 



