•28 Report of Meetings for imo. By Br J. Hardy. 



Mr C. E. Moore, Alnwick ; Mr Ricbard Aisbett, Seaham Har- 

 bour ; Mr A. H. Thew, Lesbiiry ; Mr Edward Thew, Birling ; 

 Mr R. G. Huggup, Gloster Hill: Mr Andrew Thompson, Glan- 

 ton ; Mr James Thomson, Shawdon ; Mr Middlemas, Treasurer, 

 Alnwick ; and Dr Hardy, Secretary, Cockburnspath. 



After dinner, the usual toasts having been duly honoured, 

 Sir VVm. Grossman rose to present Dr Hardy with a handsomely 

 bound illuminated address and a cheque for a sum of over £400, 

 subscribed for by some two hundred members of the society. 

 The President said : " Gentlemen, I am extremely glad that 

 during my term of office as President of the Berwicl<shire 

 Naturalists' Field Club, so pleasant a duty as that of to-day 

 should devolve upon me, and that is, to congratulate our worthy 

 and respected Secretary, Dr Hardy, upon the high honour which 

 has been conferred upon him by the Univer^ity of Edinburgh 

 in investing him with the honorary degree of LL.D. None 

 know better than we do how well that honour was deserved. 

 (Applause.) "We were delighted to hear of it, and I may say 

 that we also felt it, in a measure, as a great compliment to the 

 Club to which we belong. (Applause.) Every volume of our 

 Proceedings contains valuable articles contributed by Dr Hardy. 

 I find that although he did not actually become a member of 

 this Club till 1863, the first paper fx-om his pen appeared in the 

 first volume of our Proceedings and was written in 1839— up- 

 wards of half a century ago — and in all he has contributed no 

 less than 2 1 9 papers to those Proceedings. Nor are those paj)ers 

 confined to one subject alone. The first was upon the Flora of 

 Berwickshire, in which he added much, and has since added 

 more, to the information that had been given on this most in- 

 teresting subject by many eminent botanists before him, amongst 

 whom I will only name, most appropriately on this occasion, 

 Dr George Johnston, the founder of our Club. (Applause.) 

 Since then, though his papers have been principally upon 

 Botanical and Entomological subjects, which best become a 

 Naturalists' Society, we find that in Zoology, in Archceology, in 

 Folk-lore, in Numismatics, in Genealogy, in fact in every subject 

 which comes within the scope of a society such as ours, we have 

 received most valuable information from his keen observation, 

 his great knowledge, and from his facile pen. (Applause.) In 

 1868 Dr Hardy was appointed President of the Club, and if any 

 of the members here present have not read the admirable anni- 



