Report of Mcctimjn for 1890. By Dr J. Harcly. 77 



Analysis of Hadden Lime. 



Lime . _ . - ol'61 



Magnesia . . _ 27*04 



Carbonic Acid - - - 2-28 



Protoxide of Iron, Alumina, and Siliceous 



Matter - - - 6-32 



Water and loss - - - 12-75 



10000 



I am of opinion that this is a good sample of lime made from 

 Magnesian limestone. John Pattinson. 



Hadden Estate, near Carliam Station. 



Analysis of Scremerston 



Lime. 





Siliceous Matter - 



- 



3-00 



Protoxide of Iron and Alumina 



- 



0-60 



Carbonate of Lime 



- 



94-04 



Carbonate of Magnesia 



- 



0-72 



Water 



- 



0-69 



Organic Matter and loss - 



- 



0-95 



100-00 



The analysis of another Tuediau limestone at Newton in 

 Coquetdale, containing Magnesia as a considerable constituent 

 may be referred to (see Hist. B.N.C., xii., p. 54.) 



The visitors having been introduced, were invited to view the 

 public rooms ; those who were connoisseurs inspected with keen 

 interest and pleasure the furniture, old bureaux, china, table 

 ornaments, tapestry, paintings, and family portraits — two of them 

 being Mrs Hodgson Hinde, and Mrs Hodgson Huntley and her 

 daughter Lady Thornhill. The fine ceilings were much admired. 

 There were among the stuffed birds a parti-coloured black and 

 white Blackbird, a white Wild Duck, a white Martin, and a 

 young white Eook with reddish bill, legs red and gray, 

 and yellow claws. There were also preserved a few cannon 

 bullets of varying sizes, and a stone ball. Mr J. C Hodgson had 

 brought from Mr Middleton Dand to exhibit, a broken iron spear- 

 head wanting the hoe, found at or near Carham about ten years 

 ago in cutting a drain across a letch or rivulet, at some two feet 

 below the surface, by Andrew Douglas, who was making or 

 enlarging tile-works. Mr Dand supposed it had been lost in a 



