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to visit the Abbey, where several new monuments have been 

 erected, and several old stones discovered and their inscriptions 

 deciphered. The new park at Allerley, the gift of a townsman, 

 was also looked into by those visitors who remained over night. 



It has l)een ascertained that three brothers named Little, 

 now deceased, all ministers of the Church of Scot'and, and all of 

 them devoted to Natural History, were natives of Jedburgh. 

 Of those the most eminent was the Rev. William Little, minister 

 at Kirkpatrick-Ju.Kta, who was a distinguished Entomologist. 

 It is proposed to write a short coinmemorative notice of these 

 brothers when materials are obtained. 



There were present at this meeting :^Mr Watson Askew- 

 Eobertson, of Pallinsburn and Ladykirk, President ; Mr William 

 H. Askew, Pallinsburn; Mr John Scott Dudgeon, Longnewton ; 

 Mr George Veitch, London ; Mr John Turnbull, Selkirk ; Mr 

 Thomas Smail, Jedburgh ; Mr Michael Muir, Fernlea, Selkirk ; 

 Mr Thomas Dunn, Selkirk ; Mr John Turnbull, Hawick ; Mr 

 James Kyle, Edinburgh; Pev. Paton G. Gloag, D.D., Gala- 

 shiels; Rev Dr Macrae, Hawick; Mr Henry Rutherford of 

 Fairnington ; Mr D. M'B. Watson, Hawick; Mr Andrew 

 Waugh, Hawick ; Mr Thomas Sim son, Jedburgh ; Mr James W. 

 Rand, Ford Hill ; Mr William Steele, Melrose ; Mr John Bolam, 

 Bilton House, Lesbury ; Mr James Parker Simpson, Alnwick ; 

 Mr John Dunlop, Lanark ; Mr Richard Howse, Newcastle, and 

 Mr Thomas Thompson, Winlaton, Hon. Sees, of the Tyneside 

 Naturalists' Field Club, Newcastle-on-Tyne ; Mr R. S. Weir, 

 North Shields ; Mr A. M. Dunlop, Ashkirk ; Rev. John Hay, 

 Glasgow ; Rev. Thomas Martin, Lauder ; Hon. Sidney G. M. 

 Maitland, Thirlestane Castle, Lauder; Rev. Archibald Grierson, 

 Millport, Greater Cumbrae ; Major-General Boswell, C.B., Darn- 

 lee, Melrose : Rev. George Gunn, Stitchel ; Rev. W. M. Warlow, 

 Kelso; Mr Walter Laidlaw, Abbey, Jedburgh; James Hardy, 

 LL.D., Oldcambus, Secretary ; Charles Douglas, M.D., Kelso ; 

 Mr Alexander Bowie, Canonbie. etc. An apology was received 

 from his Worship the Mayor of Berwick. 



LAByKIRK, HOBNDEAN, NORHAM. 



The fourth Meeting was held by invitation of the President, 

 at Ladykirk House, for Ladykirk, Horndean, and Norham, on 

 August 26th. Having stayed there from the 25th, over the 



