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earlier than tliey could in the primitive way, and so the Bee- 

 keepers sooner get the honey — and the money. When the 

 comb is taken the honey is driven out by centrifugal force ap- 

 plied by proper mechanism. A figure of the rolling machine is- 

 given in the last June number of " The Beekeepers' Magazine." 

 (A. J. King & Co., 61, Hudson Street, IS'ew York.) My atten- 

 tion was called in July last to this subject by the Eev. Canon 

 Whitley, Yicar of Bedlington, to whose kindness I owe the per- 

 usal of the above number, and thereby an item of information 

 that may be interesting to some of our members. Comb founda- 

 tions, had they been known here, and made use of last year, 

 might have saved the northern Bees much time and toil, as the 

 summer was late and unfavourable for flowers. 



The PouETH regular Eield Meetiistg was held on the 5th of 

 August, at Crag Lough and the adjacent parts of the Roman 

 Wall. On this occasion I was unable to be present, but Mr. T. 

 Thompson, one of our Secretaries, who was of the party, has 

 obligingly furnished me with the following account of the day's 

 proceedings. 



The members of the Club left I^ewcastle for Bardon Mill by 

 the train at 6*25 a.m., and, after breakfast at the Greyhound Inn, 

 went up by the banks of Chineley Burn (in a wood, called Cock- 

 ton Wood, west of which burn, Pyrola minor, Cardims hetro- 

 phyllus, and Rubus saxatilis were once found) to the station of 

 Chesterholm, the Vindolana of the Romans. There they in- 

 spected the remains of the station, the celebrated Miliarium, and 

 the collection of Roman remains, inscribed stones, etc., in the 

 adjacent cottage residence, once the habitation of the Rev. A. 

 Hedley. They next proceeded to Crag Lough, where many 

 forms of Diatomace(B may be obtained, and where, among the 

 rocks at the base of the basaltic crags, the Parsley Fern, AUosorus 

 crispus, grows abundantly ; they then walked along the line of 

 the Wall to Sewing Shields, and visited the large station of Bor- 

 covicus, examining the gateways, the junction of the station with 

 the Wall, and the excavations. After this they descended to 



