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the following were proposed for membership :— Mr Cadwallader 

 J. Bates, M.A., of Heddon, Wylam-on-Tyne, late High Sheriff 

 of Northumberland ; Rev. William Lyall Holland, Oornhill 

 Rectory, Northumberland ; Mr Thomas Dunn, manufacturer, 

 Selkirk. 



At this meeting Mr A. M. Dunlop. Ashkirk, exhibited two 

 rare Fungi, Henodochus carhonarius and Lecythea Poterii, on leaves 

 of Sanguisorba offidnalis, from Sinton Woods, Ashkirk. 



Mr Walter Laidlaw showed the following antiquities from the 

 district belonging to the Marquess of Lothian : — 



1. Handle of a wine Amphora, 6 J inches in circumference, 

 found at the Roman Station, Cappuck. 



2. Smooth stone Celt of felsite, pear-shaped, sharpened at 

 tlie broad end, 8 inches long, 7f inches in circumference, found 

 at Westerhouses, Abbotrule. 



3. Small sandstone ball, 8 inches in circumference, found at 

 Old Jedward in 1884; another of the same kind found at 

 Fernieherst (no date.) 



4. Flat stone axe, perforated for handle, of greywacke, 7 

 inches long by 8 inches in circumference ; found in a wall 

 between Ormiston and Jedburgh. 



5. Small flat stone Celt, found at Hardenpeel in June 1891, 

 shaped like a wedge, blunt at the butt, sharpened at broad end, 

 of a very micaceous greywacke, 3^ inches long, 5 inches in cir- 

 cumference. 



6 A curious old flat thin iron horse shoe, found at Fernie- 

 herst Castle. 



7. Portion of a blue glass bottle found at Cappuck. 



Mr Laidlaw had got from Tudhope a bronze Palstave, similar 

 to one figured in Proc. Antiq. Soc. Scotland, 1889, p. 220. 



Dr Charles Douglas exhibited a small polished white hammer 

 of felsite, rounded at the ends, perforated for a handle, length 

 over 3 inches by 2 or more at its greatest breadth, found in 

 Newton by Mr Thomas Robson Scott. 



At one of the Jedburgh meetings, a notice was given of a 

 Steel Cap, of which the exact locality was not exactly determined. 

 Miss Forrest, Jedburgh, informs me that it was found near 

 Cessford ; and that she has ascertained that the exact dimensions 

 were : — '* 26f inches round the brim outside measure ; and over 

 the top from front to back 17 J inches ; across 16;|^ inches ; height 



