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Report of the Meetings of the Berwickshire Naturalists' 

 Club for 1893. 



Eglingham, Harehope, Old Bewick. 



[This notice is derived from the Report of the Newcastle 

 Journal in part, but chiefly from a synopsis of Mr James Tait's 

 (of Belford) valuable paper, with supplementary notes from 

 other sources.] 



The Club held the first meeting of the year on Wednesday, 

 31st May — Eglingham being the place selected. With delight- 

 ful weather, the many interesting and curious features the 

 neighbourhood presents were witnessed to the best advantage by 

 a company which was much above the average generally seen at 

 these gatherings. Most of the party assembled at the Nor- 

 thumberland Arms, Alnwick, and enjoyed a charming drive 

 from there to Eglingham. Others walked in from Wooperton 

 Station and different places in the district, a common meeting 

 place being the Eglingham Schools, where, at ten o'clock, a 

 capital breakfast was served by the host of the Tankerville 

 Arms, Mr Edward Burn. 



The company present then or during the day included the 

 President, Capt. J. R. Carr-EUison, Hedgeley ; the Treasurer, 

 Mr Robert Middlemas, Alnwick ; the Archdeacon of Lindisfarne, 

 the Rev. J. Walker, Mr J. L. Newbigin, the Rev. Edward B. 

 Hicks, Mr C. H. Scott Plummer, Mr A. M. Dunlop, Mr Joseph 

 Oliver and Mrs Oliver, the Rev. David Paul, Mr W. T. Hind- 

 marsh, F.L.S., Mr George Bolam, F.Z S., Mr J. C. Hodgson, 

 Mr Edward Thew, Mr Thomas Graham, Mr John Fawcus, Mr 

 R. S. Storey, Mr G. H. Thompson, Mr Robert Huggup, Mr 

 Ralph G. Huggup, Mr Andrew Thompson, Mr John Dryden, 

 Mr Joseph Archer, Mr John Y. Carse, Mr William Percy, Mr 

 Henry George Wilkin, Mr John Bolaui, Mr James Tait, Gapt. 

 Forbes, R.N., the Rev. James Steel, Colonel Kinsman, R.A., 

 Mr D. D. Dixon, Mr W. Dixon, and the Rev. William Taylor. 



There was only one drawback to the complete success of the 

 meeting, and that was due to the absence of the learned 

 Secretary, Dr Hardy. Very general regret was expressed that 

 ill-health prevented him being present. 



