296 Iteport of Meetings for 1891. By Dr J. Hardy. 



6^ inches ; weighs in the state of decay it now is in, 3 lb. 8 oz. 

 It is now in the possession of the Marquess of Lothian, K.T., at 

 Monteviot." 



The Bronze Implements found at Doorpool and elsewhere in 

 Southdean Parish are preserved in the Jedburgh Museum, and 

 I have drawings of them for future use from Miss Russell, now 

 of Edinburgh. 



Mr Weir showed two beautiful photographs of the alignment 

 of Menhirs at Kermario, Carnac, Brittany, which he had visited 

 recently. 



Mr Wood, Galashiels, presented a rubbing of the curious 

 tombstone at Nisbet churchyard, with the representation of an 

 ancient cross in the central flat space, and rows of shell-like 

 ornaments on the sloping part of the sides, of which a drawing 

 had been shown at Berwick meeting in October 1890. It belongs 

 to the twelfth century, or even earlier. 



Mr Wood also had brought a pen and ink drawing of two 

 views of the great Boulder of Greywacke on Meigle Hill, Gala- 

 shiels, locally called " Wallace's Putting Stone." Its position 

 on the hill is on the southern slope, about 12 feet below the 

 highest point, and is nearly 1300 feet above sea level. It 

 measures 6 feet 6 inches long, 4 feet 8 inches broad, and 3 feet 

 9 inches deep, and is estimated to weigh 5 tons. • 



One of the company had gone into a turnip field in the parish 

 of Southdean in search of the caterpillar of the Diamond Moth 

 {Plutella cruciferarum) so prevalent at present on the eastern 

 coast fields, and after a considerable search obtained only one 

 example. The local history of the pest may be found in the 

 Club's Proceedings (Hist., vol. ii., pp. 336-7) where both cater- 

 pillar and moth are described. This paper, " On the Insects 

 Injurious to the Turnip Crop," by Dr Hardy, was read at the 

 general meeting of the East of Berwickshire Farmers' Club at 

 Berwick, Uth June 1849, and was subsequently published sep- 

 arately (Edin., 1849, p. 26.) From this it appears that the 

 caterpillars had manifested themselves in turnip fields at Pen- 

 manshiel, Cockburnspath, in 1847 and 1848. In the Club's 

 Proceedings (Hist., vol. v., p. 89) for 1863 it again obtains a 

 notice. ^'■Plutella cruciferarum. — This minute moth and its green 

 caterpillar were very prevalent in the turnip fields throughout 

 the season. It appeared to have come from the wild mustard 



