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interest of the distiict, from a botanical jioiut of view, arising 

 from tlie extent and perseverance with which agricultural and 

 horticultural cultivation has been carried on, at, for Britain, an 

 unprecedently high altitude. Cool and refreshing breezes were 

 experienced as the hills were passed, resuscitating in their in- 

 fluence, so that, notwithstanding the ardent heat of the earlier 

 part of the day, Allendale Town was reached, without any one 

 being much fatigued. The Golden Lion Inn was repaired to 

 without delay, where a sumptuous dinner, temptingly prepared 

 by Mrs. Burn, was found, to which ample justice was done. 

 Hearty votes of thanks were afterwards accorded to Henry Bacon 

 Grey, Esq., for his kind consideration in allowing the members 

 to ramble over his estate, and to Mr. Hetheriugton for his cour- 

 tesy and kindness in guiding the i)arty. Six new members were 

 elected. After dinner several members -visited the Smelting Mills 

 of W. B. Beaumont, Esq., M.P., where they were received with 

 eveiy attention ; others inspected the Church, and then pro- 

 ceeded to the Catton Boad Station to join the return train at 

 6.55, where several of those who had rambled up the river bed 

 and its banks had only shortly before reached. After a short 

 detention at Hexham, Newcastle was safely reached at 8.45, the 

 pleasure and the enjoyment of the trip being the parting theme 

 in bidding farewell. 



The Fourth Field ^Meeting was held at Stanhope, Weardalc, on 

 ^[onday, August the 7th (bank holiday). The party, more than 

 fifty in number, including several ladies, left Newcastle by the 

 10.5 A.M. train, and arrived at Stanhope shortly after noon. At 

 tlu! railway station they were met by the Bev. John AVagstafFe, 

 M.A., of Stnnliope, wlio courteously acted as guide tliroughout 

 the excursion, and most kindly gave them the benefit of his local 

 and botanical knowledge. The majority of the party walked, 

 for a short distance, by the side of the railway, and then through 

 the ficdds of the glebe, which were fragrant from the recently 

 mowed grass, and gradually ascending reaclunl the Limeston(» 

 (Auarries of I^arson's livers, an altitude of eight or nine hundred 

 feet above the sea Icvrl from \\lii(li :i aci-v extensive and 



