Proceedings of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club.

Date:
[1859]
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Credit: Proceedings of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    combined to render the once proud Norham Castle an uninhabit- able ruin, but still a ruin majestic and impressive.” The first meeting of the year, under my Presidency, was held at Berwick, on Wednesday the 27th of October. Present,—The Pev. Wm. Darnell, Pev. J. Dixon Clark, P. Embleton, Secretary, George Tate, J. Church, Wm. Dickson, Pobert Home, Major Elliott, Wm. Boyd, James Grey, F. P. Wilson, and J. C. Lang- lands, the President for the year. The accounts were examined, and the subscription fixed at 6s. 6d. Mr. G. Tate was appointed joint secretary with Mr. Embleton. The meetings for the year were fixed as follows :—Coldingham, May 26 ; Pothbury, June 30 ; Melrose, July 28 ; Wooler, September 29 ; and Berwick, Oct. 27. The financial business being finished, the majority of the party drove to Burnmouth, from whence they walked along the beach beyond the village of Poss: passing the point at which the carboniferous series of rocks abuts upon the Silurian beds ; the sandstones becoming visible in masses, on approaching Marshall Meadows. Passing through Poss, we observed a curious notice affix- ed on the door of one of the herring curing houses, to this effect:— “ BOPDEP MAPPIAGES. ANDPEW LYON Begs respectfully to intimate, that he can be found, at his residence, Coxon’s Lane, adjoining Walken Gate Lane, anytime his services may be required, by parties visiting the Hymeneal Shrine on the Scottish Borders.” It is to be regretted that this practice still continues among residents in Scotland. The new church of St. Mary’s, recently built by Capt. Gordon, M.P., of Fyvie Castle, was visited on our return. The party assembled at dinner at the Ped Lion, and had the pleasure of welcoming as their visitor, John Stuart, Esq., of Edin- burgh, the secretary of the Spalding Club ; with whose valuable and beautiful work on the “ Sculptured Stones and Crosses of Scotland” the Club has been made acquainted by Mr. Tate. We had the satisfaction of electing Mr. Stuart one of our members. The Club met at Coldingham, on Thursday, the 26th of May. After breakfast the remains of the Priory were examined under the able guidance of Mr. Dickson, whose connection with the parish of Coldingham, as owner of the estate of Whitecross, on which formerly stood one of the crosses which marked the bound- ary of the sanctuary, in addition to his taste and information in