OF THE

BERWICKSHIRE

NATURALISTS' CLUB.

INSTITUTED SEPTEMBER 23, 1831,

VOLUME I

"MARE ET TELLUS, ET, QUOD TEGIT OMNIA, CŒLUM."

1863-1868.

ALNWICK:

PRINTED FOR THE CLUB

BY HENRY HUNTER BLAIR, MARKET PLACE.

1868.

PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

BERWICKSHIRE NATURALISTS' CLUB.

Address delivered at Belford, on the 24th of September, 1863. By JOHN TURNBULL, Esq., of Abbey St. Bathans, President.

GENTLEMEN,

On looking over the part of our transactions for 1837, which has been reprinted by the Duke of Northumberland, I observe that the President of that year, (the late amiable and accomplished Mr Baird of Yetholm,) stated it as an interesting feature of our club, that we had continued " after an existence of six long years to meet with the same zeal and with the same anticipations of enjoyment as we did at our first formation, when our society possessed all the interest of novelty." How much more forcibly may I now congratulate you on our continued prosperity and success-on the harmony of our meetings-on the pleasure and instruction derived from them-on the healthful change of occupation a day with the club affords to many of us—and on the additions we have made to the records of the Flora and Fauna of the disB.N.C.-VOL. V. NO. 1. B