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Mr Charles Scott Plummer of Middlestead and Sunderland Hall, 

 Selkirk ; Mr Tom Scott, A.E.S.A., Selkirk ; Mr Gideon T. Scott, 

 Selkirk; Mr Q. B. Anderson, manufacturer, Heatherlie Mill, 

 Selkirk; Mr John Ford, Eoyal Bank of Scotland, Duns; Mr 

 Ebenezer Erskine Harper, advocate, Sheriff-Substitute of Selkirk- 

 shire ; Mr Eobert Hogg Shaw, Leet Cottage, Coldstream ; Dr 

 W. T. Waterson, Embleton ; Mr James Laidlaw, manu- 

 facturer, Jedburgh; Rev. W. H. Ohesson, Alnwick ; Eev. J. W. 

 Oman, M.A., B.D., Alnwick; Mr William Frier Eobson, South- 

 field, Duns. 



BORDER PORTLETS. 



The Secretary said he had received a letter from Dr David 

 Ohristison, Secretary of the Edinburgh Antiquarian Society, 

 stating that he had been on the Borders recently, and had visited, 

 measured, and sketched several of the ancient British Camps 

 and Fortlets in Berwickshire, Eoxburghshire, and North 

 Northumberland ; this communication also contained a sketch of 

 a very interesting Fort, recently explored on the Castle Land, 

 near Forgandenny, in the N.E. corner of Perthshire. Several 

 Club members accompanied Dr Christison in some of these 

 investigations. 



BLACK RAIN. 



The President read a letter which had been received from Mr 

 F. J. W. Collingwood, Glanton Pyke, who stated that on the 

 1st of September, a black cloud was observed, and shortly 

 afterwards dark-coloured rain fell. Next morning, when the 

 gardener went to measure the rainfall he found the water 

 discoloured. Mr Collingwood had a sample of it analysed by 

 Mr Newbigin, chemist, Alnwick, who found by examination 

 with a microscope of high power that it contained no animal 

 organisms. The colour was entirely of vegetable origin. 

 Apparently pond or bog water had been taken up, and formed 

 into a cloud which had burst. 



NEW BERWICKSHIRE GRASS. 



The Secretary said he had great pleasure in exhibiting a 

 grass [Milium effusum) a millet grass which was new to Berwick- 

 shire. He had found it in a cleugh in Penmanshiel Wood. 

 The dried specimen was handed round, and was found to have 

 a fragrant smell. 



