Report of Meetings for 1891. Dy Dr J. Hardy. 823 



There was great douht in the minds of those who had seen the 

 instrument as to the object for which it had been used. There 

 was a screw which would lead one to suppose that it had been 

 fastened into a shaft or handle and used as a torch for the 

 leistering of salmon in the Tweed. If it was employed for this 

 purpose, he supposed the parties using it would go to the 

 churchyard to hide the instrument. Mr Middlemas, Alnwick, 

 said the instrument had been used by poachers for the purpose 

 of lighting up the river. Dr Turnbull, Coldstream, drew 

 attention to the fact that Mrs Barwell Carter had prepared a 

 book containing the correspondence of the late Dr Johnston. 

 Seeing that he was the founder of the Club, they ought to give 

 the greatest possible encouragement to the publication of such 

 a work, and further, seeing that it had been edited by Dr Hardy, 

 he thought the book ought to be very largely subscribed for by 

 the members of the Club. 



Mr Middlemas said he was glad to say the subscriptions 

 during the past year had been very well paid indeed, and he 

 thought the accounts after they had been audited by Mr Bolam 

 would turn out very satisfactorily, tie thought some restriction 

 should be put upon those new members who purchased the old 

 volumes kept in stock in Berwick Museum, to complete their set 

 of Transactions, at a much smaller price than they could buy 

 them anywhere else. He thought this was not fair to the older 

 members. 



The Mayor of Berwick said they had literature of no common 

 value amongst the earlier volumes of the Transactions of the 

 Club, and he would propose that the price of them be very 

 much enhanced. 



Some of those present stated they were not aware that back 

 numbers of the Transactions of the Club were to be got at 

 Berwick ; they had been hunting for them. 



Ultimately a Committee, consisting of the Secretary, Treasurer, 

 and the Mayor of Berwick, were appointed to fix the price at 

 which the back numbers should be sold. 



Mrs Barwell Carter's house was open, as on former occasions 

 of the Club's annual visit. A feature of interest this year was 

 a new selection of flowers and shrubs, sent by Mr Ingram, who 

 is a native of Berwickshire, head gardener to the Duke of 

 Eutland, at Belvoir Castle. A list of these was furnished 

 afterwards by Dr Maclagan, and as it is the last couimunicatioA 



