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is that to Colonel Fenwicke, 1656. The large recess, or 

 second north aisle with its elliptical arch, is peculiar, and 

 may have been inserted at the time of building as an after- 

 thought. It contains the Colour of the old Independent 

 Berwick Volunteers, raised in 1797, being a specimen of a 

 First Union Flag (1606-1801), which displays the red cross 

 of St. George on a white ground in combination with the 

 white cross or saltire of St. Andrew on a blue ground. In 

 1801 that flag gave place to the existing, or Second Union 

 Flag (our ' Union Jack '), in which Ireland is represented 

 by the saltire of St. Patrick, red cross on white ground. 

 This old banner, therefore, has a special interest." 



Before leaving the Church the members availed themselves 



of the opportunity of doing honour to the 

 Founder's memory of the Founder of the Club, George 

 Memorial. Johnston, Esq., M.D. (Edin.), whose memorial 



tablet in white marble, surmounted by a pleasing 

 bust of himself, occupies a space on the wall of the North 

 aisle of the building. Only one of the party could claim 

 to have had his personal friendship, namely the President, 

 whose membership in the Club ante-dated by two years the 

 year of his decease, 1855. To one acquainted with him 

 only through his charming "Natural History of the Eastern 

 Borders," so rich in evidence of his devotion to Nature 

 and her treasures, which, as he testifies in his introduction, 

 "at once adorn and relieve the toils and vexations of 

 a busy life, and refine and exalt the enjoyments of a 

 social one," it was a pleasure to look upon his countenance 

 as modelled by the sculptor, and inhale his devout and 

 earnest spirit as voiced in the sublime utterance which 

 subjoins the medallion: — "The works of the Lord are great; 

 sought out of all them that have pleasure therein." Psalms, 

 CXI., 2. 



At one o'clock the members assembled in the Museum, 



where the President delivered his retiring 

 Business address, choosing for his subject "The history 



Meeting. of the Snowdrop (Galanthus L.)." At the 



conclusion of an exhaustive dissertation upon 

 the classification and characteristics of its numerous varieties, 

 he briefly referred to the loss sustained by the Club during 



