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Reports of the Meetings of the Berwickshire Naturalists' 

 Club for 1903. 



EiLDON Hills and Dryburgh. 



The First Ordinary Meeting for the year (1903) was held 

 at Melrose, on Wednesday, 27th May, when there assembled 

 a goodly number of members, among whom were noted : — 

 Captain Norman, R.N., Organizing Secretary; Eev. J. J. M. 

 L. Aiken, B.D., Editing Secretary; Mr George Bolam, F.Z.S., 

 Treasurer; General Boswell, O.B., Melrose; Mr Wm. B. Boyd, 

 Faldonside; Mr G. G. Butler, Ewart Park, Wooler ; Mr T. 

 Craig-Brown, Selkirk ; Mr J. Hewat Craw, Foulden ; Mr J. 

 T. Craw, Whitsome Hill ; Mr Wm. Dunn, Eedden, Kelso ; 

 Dr R. Shirra Gibb, Boon ; Mr Arthur Giles, Edinburgh ; 

 Mr J. G. Goodchild, F.G.S., Edinburgh; Provost Hilson, 

 Jedburgh ; Mr Walter Laidlaw, Jedburgh ; Rev. James Steel, 

 D.D., Heworth, Newcastle; Mr James A. Somervail, Broom- 

 dykes ; Mr Alexander Thomson, Galashiels ; Mr John Turnbull, 

 Galashiels ; and Mr Joseph Wilson, Duns. The President 

 was unable to take part in the excursion on account of 

 indisposition. 



On the arrival of the trains from East and West, the party, 



under the guidance of the borough engineer. 

 Burg-jo. Mr Alexander Soutar, set out to climb Mid- 



Eildon, following a dried-up water-course which 

 brought them to a detached hillock, known in the neigh- 

 bourhood as Burg-jo, whose origin and purpose have for 

 long been matter of conjecture, some inclining to the belief 

 that it is a work of art, which had been used as a fortified 



