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in this family, which has originated within the district 

 of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, and is quite unique, 

 as nothing like it has ever been seen before. Here my 

 enumeration of the snowdrop family must take end. I 

 have not mentioned nearly all the different sorts, but 

 principally those showing the most distinctive characters, 

 and those of greatest beauty in the garden. I am only 

 sorry that it is not possible to exhibit flowering specimens 

 at this season of the year, as, could this have been done, 

 it would have made my dissertation much more inter- 

 esting. 



The sad duty still remains to me to announce the 

 names of members of the Club who have 

 Obituary died during the year now closed, namely: — 

 of the Mr James Smeall, Castlewood, Jedburgh ; 



Year. Mr Thomas J. Graham, The Avenue, Ber- 



wick; Mr James Small, F.S.A. (Scot.), 

 Edinburgh, who held the office of President of the Club 

 in 1899; Mr W. Grant Guthrie, Hawick; Mr C. B. P. 

 Bosanquet, Rock Hall, Alnwick ; Mr J. L. Newbigin, 

 Alnwick; Captain J. A. Forbes, R.N., Berwick; and Mrs 

 Wood, Woodburn, Galashiels, widow of Mr James Wood, 

 Earlston, long an active member of the Club. 



It falls to me also to nominate my successor in the 

 chair, and I have great pleasure in submit- 

 Appoint- ting with confidence the name of Mr John 

 ment of Crawford Hodgson, F.S.A. , Alnwick, who by 

 President, his literary gifts has already attained 

 eminence in the department of historical 

 re.search, and by his diligence in tabulating, at the 

 request of the Club, the manuscripts of the late Dr 

 Hardy which came into their possession, has earned the 

 grateful acknowledgment of its members. 



