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exhibited the fruit of Ruhus arcticus, which is of a greenish 

 purple, sweet tasted, and has a delicious vanilla scent. Of this, 

 only male plants had been grown in this country for fifty years, 

 and had not fruited, till he procured female plants from 

 Norway, and was the first that grew the fruit in Britain. At 

 Faldonside we saw abundance of Campanula latifolia with white 

 flowers ; which is said to be not uncommon in several of the 

 woods there. By the lake we gathered Butornus umbellatus, then 

 going out of bloom. Some of the members visited Bowhill 

 on this occasion ; and I went to Faldonside, Galashiels, and 

 Ashiesteel. 



There were present here: — Provost Craig-Brown, President; 

 Mr Watson Askew- Robertson, Ladykirk ; Major-General Sir 

 William Grossman, Cheswick ; Hon. Sydney G. W. Maitland, 

 Thirlestane Castle; Eev. A. S. Mammat, Philiphaugh ; Mr 

 William B. Boyd, Faldonside ; General Boswell, Darnlee ; Mr 

 Eobert Romanes, Lauder; Rev. Thomas Martin, Lauder; Mr 

 Hugh Weir, Glasgow; Mr David Fraser, Selkirk; Mr A. M. 

 Dunlop, Ashkirk ; Mr Wm. Grant Guthrie, Hawick ; Mr James 

 Wood, Galashiels ; Mr Alex. F. Roberts, Selkirk ; Dr Hardy, 

 Secretary ; Mr William Little, Galashiels ; Mr James Thomson, 

 Shawdon; Mr Stuart Douglas Elliot, S.S.C., Edinburgh; Mr 

 George Veitch, Brighton ; Mr J. Turnhull, jun., Hawick ; Mr 

 Andrew Waugh, Hawick ; Mr David Leitch, Greenlaw ; Mr 

 John Guthrie, Hawick ; Mr James H. Brown, Selkirk ; Mr 

 David McB. Watson, Hawick ; Mr J. P. Simpson, Alnwick ; Mr 

 G. H. Thompson, Alnwick; Mr John Tuinbull, Selkirk; Mr R. 

 S. Weir, North Shields ; Kev. Joseph Hunter, Cockburnspath ; 

 Mr James Hood, Linhead, Cockburnspath ; Mr Peter Loney, 

 Marchmont; Mr John Ferguson, Duns; IVTr J. Fortune, Duns; 

 Rev. Mr Borland, Yarrow ; Mr 1). Carnegie Alexander, Selkirk ; 

 Captain MacMillan Scott, Wauehope ; Mr Pettie, R.A. ; Mr 

 Anderson of Ettrick Shaws ; Mrs Erskine, The Priory, Melrose; 

 Mrs Craig and Miss Watson, Hawick. 



The following were proposed as members : — Mr W. Strang 

 Steel of Philiphaugh ; Mr Charles Scott-Plummer of Sunderland 

 Hall; Mr Tom Scott, A.R.S.A., Selkirk; Mr Gideon T. Scott, 

 Selkirk ; Mr G. B. Anderson, Heatherlie Burn, Selkirk ; Mr 

 John Ford, Royal Bank, Duns. 



