3 1 8 Report of Meetings for 1891. By Dr J. Hardy. 



trees and ivy ; the opposite side with flowering elder bushes, 

 while bushy tufts of foliage crowned fantastic projections of 

 conglomerate rock. Eabbits peeped out from their burrows on 

 that side. An extensive cultivated hill sloped upwards with the 

 harvesters a-field. The new Dairy establishment was inspected ; 

 the new pigeon cotes ; and the handsome well-built cottages, so 

 very unlike the uncomfortable old hovels once attached to farms, 

 that most of proprietors have now become ashamed of. 



There are some fine young trees by the drive, among them a 

 well foliaged Cedar of Lebanon, forty years old. The fine hoily 

 hedges are also worthy of notice. 



After dinner, Mr G. H. Thompson stated that Mr Amory, 

 Alnwick, had tried to breed the Diamond Moth, and succeeded 

 in obtaining onh' one from the chrj^salis. The rest gave origin 

 to parasitic Ichneumon flies. I mentioned that a Sirex Gigas 

 had appeared from paling fir stobs used for the erection of 

 wire-fences at Redheugh near Oldcambus. The wood was from 

 Aikieside ; another had been sent from Birnieknowes near 

 Dunglass. They have now become pretty frequent hereabouts, 

 issuing from decaying coniferous trees. Many of the party 

 visited the Fishery Experimental Station near the Castle, to see 

 the result of the Embryological experiments in rearing Sea- 

 fishes and Crustacea from the spawn, conducted by Dr Fullarton, 

 and were courteously, in his unavoidable absence, shown the 

 different processes by his assistant, Mr Jamieson. Dunbar, when 

 anything of Antiquarian importance occurs, might expected to 

 be in communication with Edinburgh, to obtain a correct opinion 

 about any object of interest that might be found on old 

 historical ground, but it is not so. Again and again we hear of 

 ancient graves casually being revealed on the coast links there, 

 without any special investigation being made. Recently, and 

 since the Club's Meeting, a whole series of coast-side tombs 

 has been laid bare by a storm, accompanied with high tides, on 

 the 21st and 22nd September, 1891. In the Haddingtonshire 

 Advertiser of September 25th, the event is thus recorded : 

 " Antiquarian Discovery. The storm and high tides have done 

 considerable damage to the enbankment above the shore at the 

 Artillery Volunteer ranges at Belhaven. On the west side, 

 between the 200 and 300 yards range, a number of stone cofiins 

 are exposed to view. They all lie from east to west, and are 

 ^bout twelve feet apart. A considerable quantity of hopes in a 



