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ANNUAL AND CHRONICLE
1946
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KILMARNOCK BURNS MONUMENT, Statue, Library, and Museum.
'fms valuable and unique collection has been visited by thousands from all parts of the World. A veritable shrine of the "Immortal Bard." The Monument occupies a commanding position in the Kay Park. From the top a most extensive and interesting view of the surrounding Land of Burns can be obtained. The Magnificent Marble Statue of the Poet, from the chisel of W. G. Stevenson, A.R.S.A., Edinburgh, is admitted to be the finest in the World. The Museum contains many relics an,d mementoes of the Poet's life, and a most valuable and interesting collection of his original MSS., among which are the following :- Tam o' Shanter. The Death e.nd Dying Words Cotter's Saturday Night. o' Poor Maille•. The Twa Dogs. Lassie wt' the Lint-white The Hol7 Fair. Locks. Address to the Dell. Last May a Braw Wooer cam John Barle7corn. . doon the Lang Glen. Sooteb Drink. Holy Wlllle's Prayer. TJJ.e Author's Earnest Cl'J' and Epistle to a Young Fl'iend. Prayer. Lament of M&l'J' Queen· of Address to J. Smith. Seots. An Epistle to Davy. Also a number of the Poet's Poor Mallie's Elery. Letters. The "M'Kie" Library also forms part of this collection, and comprises upwards of 800 Yolumes of Bums literature, including a. copy of the famous_ Fif!~ ~~!~ion, mmii!ibed i& .. Kilmamock, • 786.
The Monument ls open fl'om 10 a.m. till dusk every day-Sunday exeep~d.
, VISITOR~ ARE REQUESTED TO S~GN THE.VISITORS' BOOK. , I " BURNS CHRONICLE " ADVERTISER JEAN ARMOUR BURNS HOUSES CASTLE ST.REET, MAUCHLINE AYRSHIRE
Established in 1915 by the Glasgow and District Burns Association
These Houses were purchased, repaired, and gifted to the Association by the late Mr. Charles R. Cowie, J.P., of Glasgow. They comprise the Burns House (in which the poet and Jean Armour began housekeeping in 1788), Dr. John M'Kenzie's House, and "Auld Nanse Tinnock's" (the "change-house" of Burns's poem "The Holy Fair"); and provide comfortable accommodation for nine old ladies, who live rent and rate free and receive a small pension.
A portion of the Burns House has .been arranged as a Museum, which now contains numerous authentic relics of Jean Armour and the poet : these include the Armour Family Bible ahd several manuscripts of Burns.
An Endowment Fund for the mainte~ance. of ·the Houses and the provision of the pensions is being formed. Contributions to this Fund would be welcomed; they should be addressed to the Hon. Treasurer of the Association, Mr. A. Neil .Campbell; F.C.C.S., 10 Lothian Gardens, Glasgow, N. W. 4 " BURNS CHRONICLE " ADVERTISER ' NATIONAL BURNS MEMORIAL COTTAGE. HOMO, MAUCHLINE; AYRSHIRE. ' In Memory of the Poet Burns for Deserving Old People . .. That greatest of benevolent Institutions established In honour of Robert Burns."_,,.. , .. Her.id.
There are now twenty modern comfortable houses for the benefit of deserving old folks. The site is an ideal one in the heart of the Burrs Country. The Cottagers, q.fter careful selection, get .the houses free of rent and taxes and an annual . all9w,ance. They are chosen from all quarters. There are no irksome restrictions, they get bringing their own furniture, have their own key, and can go in and out · and have their own friends visiting them as they please. Our aim is to give them, as near as ' practicable, their "ain fireside " and let them live out their o.wn lives in quiet comfort. t}:arther · fund.I are ·required. · WDI ~oa please help'! '' · Subscriptions will be gratefully acknowledged by the Hon. Secretary, Mr. DAVID J. S. HARVEY, 65 Renfield Street, Glasgow. " BURNS CHRONICLE " ·ADVERTISER 5
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VINCENT STREET, GLASGOW, C.2 BURNS CHRONICLE BURNS CHRONICLE AND CLUB DIRECTORY INSTITUTED 1891 PUBLISHED ANNUALLY SECOND SERIES : VOLUME XXI THE BURNS FEDERATION KILMARNOCK PRINTED BY WlLLill.'11: BODGJI AND COMPANY, LTD. GLASGOW AND EDINBURGH LIST OF CONTENTS P.lGE 1.-Editorial : The 150th anniversary of Burns's death 1 11.-Letter from Dr. Wen Yuan-ning 3 111.-The disease that killed Robert Burns, by S. Watson Smith, M.D. 4 IV.-The falling-out at Woodley Park of Burns and Maria Riddell, by J. C. Ewing and Andrew M'Callum - 6 V.-Visitors to Alloway, 1944-1945 - 1111 Vl.-Tares in the wheat : Burns's " associates and contemporaries "; by the Very Rev. Lauchlan MacLean Watt, D.D., LL.D. 112 VIL-Burns and the Scottish flora, by Sir William Wright Smith, F.R.S.E. 17 VIll.-Burns and the " Edinburgh Gazetteer " : "Cato's" prose essay on reform; by John S. Clarke, J.P. - 25 IX.-Burns and Byron-a comparison, by J. Minto Robertson, M.A., LL.D. 29 X.-Two letters of Maria Riddell - 41 XL-Burns and Mrs. Cockburn, by C. Angus, M.A. 44 XIl.-The Burns House, Mauchline : Jean Armour Burns Memorial; by: Elizabeth Ewing, M.A. 46 XIll.-Ayr Academy Literary Sooiety Burns Supper - 50 XIV.-The Burns Federation: Declaration of Trust, Central Fund 511 XV.-Burns's first letter to " Clarinda" - 60 vi LIST OF CONTENTS PAGE Burns Club notes 52 THE BURNS FEDERATION : (a) List of Hon. Presidents, Hon. Vice-Presidents, Executive Committee (Office-bearers and Dis trict Representatives), Sub-Committees, and Auditors 61 (b) Constitution and Rules - 64 (c) List of Districts 68 (01 List of Past-Presidents - 76 (e) List of places at which the Annual Conference has been held 76 (/) Minutes of the Annual Conference, 1945: incorporating the Hon. Secretary's annual report, and report of the Diamond Jubilee celebration 77 (!1) Annual reports : (1) Burns Chronicle 91 (2) School Competitions 93 (3) Financial Statement 95 (h) Numerical list of Clubs on the Roll 98 (i) Alphabetical list of Clubs .on the Roll 127 (k) Notil?Els - 131 ILLUSTRATIONS 1. BURNS's FIDDLE AND TRI.ilTGLE - - Facing page 11 2. PAOSIMILl!I OP PORTION OF LETTER FROM MISS R. KENNEDY TO DR. JAMES OURRIE - 10 " " 3. JEAN ARMOUR BURNS MEMORIAL, MAUOHLINE - 46 " " EDITORIAL NOTE The Burns Federation does not accept any responsi bility for statements made or opinions expressed in the Burns Chronicle. The writers are responsible for articles signed by them; the Editor is responsible for articles initialed or signed by him, as well as for those unsigned. Letters and offers of original articles should be addressed to the Editor. Articles offered should be in typescript, with double spacing and on one side of the paper. J. c. EWING 8 ROYAL TERRACE, Gt.A8GOW' 0.3. , BU.RNS'S FIDDLE AND TRIANGLE (drawn by Thomas Stothard, R.A., when touring Scotland, along with R. H. Cromek, in 1809) Reproduced by permission from t/ie drawinl( in tlie National Library of Scotland EDITORIAL rBE 150TB .ANNIVERSARY OF BURNS's DEATH Scotsmen all over the world will have an outstanding opportunity of paying tribute to Burns next summer, for the hundred and fiftieth anniversary of his death falls on 2lst July 1946. How this event will be commemorated has not yet been fully determined, but it is to be hoped that there will be wide and worthy recognition of it. A good lead has been given by the Southern Scottish Counti_es Burns, Association, which last year put forward a provisional p}ogramme to be carried out in Dumfries, where the poet fiied and was buried. It comprises a procession on the afternoon of Saturday, 20th July, from the Municipal Chambers to the sj;atue of the poet in Burns Square and thence to the Mausoleum in St. Michael's Ohurchyard; a civic reception on the same evening; a Sunday morning service of commemo ration; followed by an afternoon visit to Burns's farm at Ellisland and an evening doncert, all on the 2lst. These events were visuali.sed in wartime, but they could scarcely be bettered for fitness and dignity and for their appeal to every type of Burnsian. It might now, however, be considered whether, in view of the end of the war, the anniversary might not be made the occasion of a nation-wide tribute to Burns sponsored by Burns club.s. He lived and died in a. period of greaj; social and political ferment and change comparable to our own, and tJhe ringing calls of patriotism, freedom, goodwill, human tolerance and family feeling which he sent forth in his poems are a bright and shining talisman for the troubled world of today. Never have mankind needed more urgently to be brought together in their common humanity than now; and Burns clubs throughout tJhe world, whose activities have largely been in abeyance during the war, might well consider whether they could not provide a valuable rallying point in this hundred and fiftieth year after the national poet's untimely death. A practical effort to help Scotsmen who have suffered in the war coJJld well be allied to sudh a commemora tive tribute to Burns. From today, when appreciation of Burns is so universal and spontaneous that the only problem is how it LETTER FROM DR. WEN YUAN-NING Acknowledging a copy of the 194:5 Burm Clvrowfole, which contains his broadcast on " Robert Burns : his Immortal M.emory," Dr. Wen Yuan-ning wrote from Chungking, China, on 6th June 1945. Thank you for sending me a copy of the Bwrns Ohr The careful scrutiny of much that has been said and printed aboµt Burns's last illness fails to reveal a medical history that is reliable, or any but meagre information as to the courae that the disease took, probably because his doctors were rightly silent about tJhe matter. Alcoholic excess and rheumatic fever, even an " accidental disease,'' have from time to time been advanced as the actual cause of his death, and at the early age, comparatively, of 371 years; yet the evidence obtainable is--and all along has been-purely hearsay, usually allowed to pass without com ment other than that Burns was "his own worst enemy." Even at this time of day, so far distant from the event, the evidence, entirely circumstantial and inconclusive, that one or other or these combined had slain him might quite as properly be denied as accepted. Though none knows, or ever knew, the truth as to the real nature of Bµr:ns's a:ffi.iction, the unproved verdict has been copied from book to book about Burns and repeated by word of mouth with !harping iteration, so as to be difficult to reverse or efface. It can be admitteq that the poet's habits were no better than those of most men of the times in which he lived, though probably they were no worse-perhaps not as bad. Being endowed witJh the intellect and genius to write such enchanting poetry as he did, all eyes were on him, and he was expected to behave faultlessly-to be as a man apart, the paragon ot good behaviour-while the conduct of those around did not much matter. t THE DISEASE THAT KILLED BURNS 5 Burns's la.st long illness, extending over ma;ny months, gradually worsening, was certainly not the result of rheµmatic fever. To modern medical thought and belief the descriptio;n of the nature and course of his disease, scant as it is and necessarily would be, indicates that he suffered and died from subacute infective endocarditis-that microbic inflamma tion of the heart which has a usual fatal ending in septicremia. In this condition a painful arthri~is is not a rare complicatio;n. The anxiety and dreadful suspense that assailed the sick poet at the last would, more likely than alcoholism., dispose to the particular disease. It is not to be forgotten that at the time of Burns's death C.1796) the stethoscope had not been invented (Rene Laennec, 1819) and the clinical thermometer was ;not yet known (Clifford Allbµtt, 1868), ;neither was the micro organismal origin of disease (Joseph Lister, 1874). The popular belief that he died of drink and rheumatic fever cannot be supported, having no foundation in fact : it is a pure fictio;n. To the medical mind the story does not ring true. The related physical facts have been distorted: they have had a false construction put upon them, so that the inference draw:n is untenable. Based upon factual misinterpretation, perhaps chiefly from judging wrongly Burns's disease and illness by his known behaviour and habits, and by lending ear to any eaves dropper's tale about him, there lb.ad been shaped and created a crude and inexact diagnosis--one that became, " by the glare of false science betrayed," nothing more than a gossip's fable, which ought now to be confµted and consigned to oblivion. S. WATSON S:m:ra .1 ; THE ·FALLING-OUT AT WOODLEY PARK OF BURN,S AND MARIA RIDDELL I When, in 1788, Burns entered into the tenancy ol Ellia land his nearest neighbour WllB Robert Riddell of Friars Carse. Intellectually and 99cially he and Burns had much in common, and ere long they had progressed from neig!hbours and acquaintances to close friends. Riddell had a younger brother named Walter, who through his first marriage had inherited an- ~tate in Antigua, West Indies. Walter's second wife, whom he met and married at St. Kitts, was English-born Maria Woodley-then under eighteen years of age-daug!hter of William Woodley, Governor and Captain-General of the Leeward Islands. On returning to Britain the young couple travelled north to Friars Carse. Walter, however, had more in view than to see his brother and his sister-in-law. He wished to settle in Scotland, not far from Friars Carse, and in 1792 purchased Goldielea, an estate in the parish of Troqueer and about tJhree miles from the town of Dumfries. In compliment to his wife he re-named the estate Woodley Park. Mrs. Walter Riddell, best known in Burnsiana as Maria Riddell, was an accomplished woman-a good conversationalist and a poetess. Mutually attracted, Burns and she became friends, and probably there WllB no guest more welcome than he at Woodley Park. Burns's opinion of her was expressed in a letter, introducing her when she first visited Edinburgh in 1792, to William Smellie, the printer. " Mrs. Riddell," wrote Burns, " who will take this letter to town with her and send it you, is a character that, even in your own way, as a Naturalist and a Philosopher, wo$ld be an acquisition to your acquaintance. The Lady, too, is a Votary of the Muses; and as I think myself somewhat of a judge in my own trade, I assure you that her verses, always correct and often elegant, are much 'beyond the common run of ilhe Lady-Poetesses of the day." Smellie printed Mrs. Riddell's book, Voyages to Madeira, etc., and became one of her intimate correspondents. THE FALLING-OUT AT WOODLEY PARK 7 About the month of June 1793 Walter Riddell received an unexpected summons to his property in the West Indies. This appears from a. long letter which his wife wrote on 17th November 1793 from Woodley Park to Smellie. " His departure," she said, " wa,s to be immediate, and his absence short." Domestic affairs compelled !her to stay at home, and ahe described herself as " rooted to one spot of ground, . . . and in this state of confinement, it seems, I am to remain till it pleases my sovereign lord and master to release me from it by his return." Shortly after writing that letter Maria must have received one from her husband, for, writing again to Smellie on 12tll January 1794 she said " My lord and master does not talk of returning till after the equinox is past," meaning the vernal equinox, which occurs about 2lst March. Smellie, writing to the lady on 3rd March following, used the words : " My friend and your husband, whom I hope you will soon have the pleasure of seeing '' ; and again, exactly two months later, he said: " What I of your h:usband not one word I This, I hope, is an oversight, 1 and that he is now happy with you in Woodley Park." II Writing oi the period about New Year 1794 and not cognizant (apparently) of the Riddell-Smellie correspondence from which extracts are printed above, Robert Chambers says that " Mr. Walter Riddel had now returned from the West Indies. " 2 His statement-probably quite conjeetural brings us to the point wlhere the friendship of Burm; with Maria Riddell and her immediate relatives was suddenly and seriously interrupted-either late in December 1793 or early in January 1794 : certainly before 12th January 1794, when the poet returned her Commonplace Book to the lady, " as it seems the Critic has forfeited your esteem his strictures must lose their value." ...... ,,.. _Dr. William Wall~ce, in his revised ed~tion (1896) of Ohambers's work, writes that "Walter Riddel had now returned from the West Indies, and at such a time it was natural that he should have his friends about him, and Burns amongst the number. Unfortunately, his hospitality was only too profuse, and his dinner-parties often ended in drunken orgies. . . . One of these Woodley Park dinners was the cause of one of the most painful episodes in the poet's life-a breaclh in his friendship with the Riddels. . . . 8 THE FALLING-OUT AT WOODLEY PARK It is not known what exactly happened on the occasion. The men sat lo:ng over their wine. Some madcap witJh. the flowers in his hair seems to have suggested a wild rush to the drawing room and a romp with the ladies. The story goes that every man seized a lady and kissed lher, and thaj; the hostess fell to Burns. There is no room for the suggestion that the frolic went further; the presence of the host himself renders s:uch a suggestion preposterous." (That information Dr. Wall ace doubtless obtained from the notes collected by Chambers for his edition of 11851-1852, which lhad been placed in his hands for use in his revision of that work.) Messrs. Henley and Henderson print this note3 to Burne's " Impromptu on Mrs. Walter Riddell's birthday, 4th November 1793," also without mentioning their. authority. " At a party at Woodley Park," they wrote, " in January 1794, he [Burns] and the men got drunk in the dining-room. The talk ran on the Rape of the Sabines, and they seem te have gone to the drawing-room with the design of giving a friendly imitation of the Romans. This, so far as can be divined, they did : Burns . . . laying rude hands on his hostess." The Editors do not tell us how they learned that " the talk ran on the Rape of the Sabines." Whatever may have been the precise share of Burns in this after-dinner incident, he was soon ashamed and repentant. That is clear from the letter whiclh next day he addressed to Maria Riddell : TO-- Supposes himself to be writing from the dead to the livint Madam, I dare say this is the first epistle you ever received from this nether world. I write you from the regions of Hell, amid the horrors of the damned. The time and manner of my leaving your earth I do not exactly know ; as I took my departure m the heat of a fever of intoxication, contracted at your too hospitable mansion; but on my arrival here, I was fairly tried, and sentenced to endure the purgatorial tortures of this infernal confine, for the space of nin... nine years, eleven months, and twenty-nine days: and all on account of the impropriety of m:y conduct yesternigbt under your roof. Here am I, laid on a bed of p1tyfess furze, with my aching head reclined on a pillow of ever-piercing thorn, while an infernal tormentor, wrinkled, and old, and cruel, his name I think is Recollection, with a whip of scorpions, forbids (eace or rest to approach me, and keeps anguish eternally awake. Stil , Madam, if I could in any measure be reinstated in the good opinion of the fair circle whom my conduct last night so much- injured, I think it would be an alleviation to my torments. For this reason I trouble you with this letter. To the men of the corn- THE FALLING-OUT AT WOODLEY PARK 9 pany I will make no apology. Your husband, who insisted on my drinking more than I chose, has no right to blame me; and the other gentlemen were partakers of my guilt. But to you, Madam, I have much to a:pologize. Your good opinion I valued as one of the greatest acquisitions I had made on earth, and I was truly a beast to forfeit it. There was a :Miss 1-- too, a woman of fine sense, gentle and unassuming manners-do make on my part, a miserable d-d wretch's best apology to her. .A :Mrs. G-, a charming woman, did me the honour to be prejudiced in my favour; this makes me hope that I have not outraged her beyond all forgiveness.-To all the other ladies please present my humblest contrition for my conduct, and my petition for their gracious pardon. . . . The inference from this letter, undated and without the name of the addressee, is that Bur;nis was ordered from the ho:use by the host and hostess. Currie included the letter probably found among the manuscripts sent to him from Dumfries early in 1797-in the volume of Burns's correspond ence which he published in 118004 ; but he made no attempt publicly to identify the lady, though in the second and subsequent editions o~ the work he listed it as " To Mrs. R. * * * * * " III For over a hundred years it was assumed by writers on the subject that Woodley Park was the " too !hospitable mansion " in which occurred the incident which broke the friendship of Burns and the Riddell family. The first person to raise doubts was the pr& Between 1796 and 1805 Maria Riddell wrote to Dr. Currie a series of letters which are published in the Bwrm Clvronicle of 1920-1924. The twenty-sixth letter of the series, which Mr. Gladsto;ne did not see and Professor Ferguson overlooked, appeared in 1923, eight years after the printing of Mr. Gladstone's book. In that letter Maria Riddell, writing from Tunbridge Wells in July 1800, after she had read Currie's four volumes, said : " That letter of his [Burns's] from tlhe other world (page 450) I am puzzled to guess how you came by. I had somehow mislaid it, and it certainly was not among those I delivered for your perusal. Some other person m:ust have pirated a copy. It is a pity you inserted it, at any rate; the stile is not fanciful enough for the intention of the composition, and it is not altogether a creditable one to Burns." Nor is that all. Another of the many people with whom Dr. Currie was in correspondence while engaged on his edition of Uurns was Mias R. Kennedy, 6 a sister of Mrs. Robert Riddell. She is of much interest to us as the lady to whom in the spring of 1794 Burns wrote requesting the destruction or the return to lliim of a manuscript volume of his verse which he had presented to the recently deceased Laird of Friars Carse: " I have a favor to request of you, Madam; and of your sister Mrs. --, through your means." In one of his letters to her Currie had mentioned the· 7 " letter from hell," and in a friendly four-page reply - written on 20th January 1798 from Edinburgh, where she was living with her father and her widowed sister-Miss Kennedy expressed her opinion that " In the posthumous Volume ot poor Burns ... I think the letter you allude to o:ught not to appea,r, as it refers to some circumstances of improper Conduct of Burns to Mrs. Walter Riddell, which she represented to Mr. [Robert] Riddell and which he thought (in his Brother's al:»ience) he ought to resent and therefore declin'd taking any further notice 'of Burns." Had Dr. Currie accepted the sensible and clearly expressed opinion of his corresponde;nt, it is unlikely that -anything would ever have been heard of this modern version of the so-called " Rape of the Sabines." WiiJh proof forthcoming that the falling-out of Burns and Maria Riddell took place at Woodley Park, only one point remains obscure : of whom was Burns thinking when he wrote the words "Your husband, who insisted on my drinking I· ; THE FALLING-OUT AT WOODLEY PARK 11 more than I chose 1 " That question is not likely ever to be answered; in any case we leave it there. J. c. EWING ANDREW M'CALLUM: NOTES I These letters are quoted from Robert Kerr's Memoirs of William Smellie. (1811, 2 vols.) ~ Life and works of Burns. (1851-2, 4 vols. : IV, 58.) 3 Centenary Edition, II, 420. · 4 Currie's Edition, II, 450-2. 5 Maria Riddell, the friend of Burns. (1915, p. 19.) s Christian name unknown to us. T This letter is now in the Horne! Collection, Kirkcudbright. See facsimile: · VISITORS TO ALLOWAY, 1944-1945 The number of visitors to the Cottage and the Monument at Alloway during the year ended 30th September 11.945 was 134,844 : an increase of 29, 724 on the number for the preceding year. To Burns's birthplace and the Museum the number who paid for admi.ssion was 76,026, compared witJh 54,944 in the year 1943-44; to the Monument the number was 58,818, compared with 50, 176 in the year 1943-44. TARES IN THE WHEAT, BURNS'S " ASSOCIATES AND CONTEMPORARIES " How often might we echo the heart-deep sigh of blind Dr. Blacklock-" Would that they would leave the dead in their graves l " I have before me a book, shaking down the wind some scrapings from odd dusty corners of Memory's by-streets. It is claimed for these that they a,re treasure-trove, and that they convey new facts about the poet Burps, his friends and associates, and especially his mother and " Highland Mary." The newest " fact " lii that Burns had lent a considerable sum to " Dr. Hornbook." I wonder where he ever got anything to lend, except what he lent to his own brother. Nothing can be worse than treating Biography as a kind of sorting-house of the rags and bones that Death makes graves of, or as if life were a slum stair with the " sweep " a.s privileged Recorder of what he smells and hears. 'rhe value of lingering district-rumours is most variable, often being tangled about different personalities in the con fusions of hiccupping age. Besides--we are not called to be Spies, for God or man, :upon our neighbours. He does not need our Special Constabulary. Nor to be gatherers of the stained linen of parochial Yesterdays-to be huµg out for laughter on the hedgerows of Hliitory. None of us are big enough to measure an Immortal. . . . We !have here before WI Memoranda of Grierson, Train, Young, and Hope. Besides all the other claims of the Editor, he says they illumine " Upper Opinion " regarding Burns- a queer phrase by an American, in a land where all men are equal. At their best they are no better than tailors' paper-patterns, with figures jotted on them, recording nothing of the heart-beat of a maµ. Most of the " discoveries " are just such as were blown from the' back rooms of Maudhline and Dumfries, by petty-minded fellows who wished to show how " big " they were, when they woke up in the morning and thought they had been drunk with Burns, and been quite as clever and great as he. Throu~h it all we should see that we must be cautious witJh Mr. J0i9eph Train, who is a general purveyor of " Burns Banquets." Most things that pass through the alembic of TARES IN THE WHEAT 13 his mind should be well shaken, tihat truth-if any-may rise to the surface before taking. Allan CJinningham is another whose untrustworthiness is reallv one of his main interests. The Editor of the "gatJhering.,' speaks of Al~an's " creative edij;ing "-a polite evasion of the crude statement that he is not telling the truth. He is responsible for the recording of irreverent and profane blasphemies in stories of Burns, for which he is careful to acknowledge his " indebtedness " to others, not daring to put himself forward as witness, nor to give the names of his authorities. But Train's finger is remarkably manifest in most pies of the banquet of Burns Scandal. In the advertisement cover of the book we are prepared for Grierson's " wealth of anecdote " and " unpublished poems," etc., but these include, for most notable contribu tions, an alleged letter of Burns, a wretched set of rhymes abo:ut an Edinburgh harlot, and some worthless lines on Lord Eglinton's dog-all without the slightest evidence of their authenticity, except the word of Train. Train is also responsible for the statement of " Clarinda " being locked up in his room by Ridhmond while that worthy runs out to look for Burns, a story that cannot fit into dates. But the authority of Richmond's original statement is "lost," like so many more of Train's papers of value. In such cases I am reminded of the conviction I saw reported in a local paper for the " theft of an alleged hen." The fact is that too many of Train's documents are not in any " Dead Letter Office." They were not even " still-born." I question if it was ever Richmond's. But Train supplies a " copy " of it. For he is no " Micawber-waiting for something to turn up." He turns up with it, and yo:u are not kept waiting. He is the " Handy Man" in tJhe " Burns C.I.D." There is also a remarkable " fac-simile tracing " of a letter from Burrui to his wife--a :uniquely strange thing. How this was procured, and what became of it, we are not told. • But Train was responsible for it. There are other things, just like nameless children seeking for their fathers at the unswept doors of Credulity. They have lost their birth lines, but Train becomes foster parent for them all. And of course tJhere are witnesses. Out of the gabbledom of mouldering remembrance comes forward one who long ago saw the louse that went to ch).lrch with the lady, met the laughing eye of the poet, and became immortal without being aware of it. The lad had seen so few in his day that he could be sure of tJhat one. So also he who was with Burns when his plough turned up the moUBe in the furrow. And, most wonderf).11 of all, the man who as a. 14 TARES IN THE WHEAT boy had slept in the same bed with Burns and could most clearly testify to his overma.stering insanity-for he co:uld tell that Burns " of.ten " took a plunge in a tub of cold water that he kept beside his bed. Could anything be more terrible-perhaps too daft to be really immoral I I remember a farmer who had the same horror of my daily bath. " Look at my brother. Would he take my warning 1 Al\.d there he lies deid in India wi' his bath-bath-bath, every day. I kent it wad feenisJi him. Look at me. I never had a bath in my life." Wlhich explained how much fresher he was on the windward side. One other memory is proved by the Editor to be wrong, as he has made a calculation, perhaps of greater interest to a midwife than to a reader, and discovered the witness to be considerably out. Certainly the glimpse of the Poet's mother is unique enough for recording. It represents her, suddenly angered at her son's sneer 11-bout prayer, lifting the poker to smite him. It might be :true of a slum wi~e, but the incredulity ()f the one section of the story cancels the other. It appears in Grierson's department, wherever he got it. Mr. Young, a Lawyer, follows at Grierson's heels. His reminiscences are introduced as " lively and varied," " with frankness and humour." The graces thµs referred to are certainly not upon j;he surface. He conveys an unworthy sneer when he says that if Burns's " Declaration of Independence of Character " !had been genuine " he would not have condescended to have become an exciseman." But Necessity does not stipulate Condescension. Even a proud man must find an 'honest job and steady wage to keep his wife and children from starvation. His independence of spirit is one of the finest things in the story of our literature, for he gave for the sake of his country a wealth of priceless songs that can never perish, and he would not take a price for them-an Olympian generosity unforgettable and unparalleled. It is on the strength of these that Professo}: Hales, the well-known critic says, " Of tJhe lyric poets, pure and simple, of British literature, Burns is certainly the chief. Few songs in the language, in whatever dialect, equal, very few indeed surpass, the best of his. . . . No song of Byron's -can compare for fire and flame with ' Ae fond kiss and then we sever. . . .' Often lhe beat his wings wildly against the bars of the world as he saw it; in calmer moment.s he sang out his pain, and whatever joy there might be, in notes that must for ever awaken a responsive thrill in the bosom of mankind." Tliat is not " Scottish prejudice.'' The qpeaker is an Englishman. Young says that at one time he thought Nicol was a better poet than Burns. Of course, TARES IN THE WHEAT 15 it is not a legal test of insa11ity to have to describe the difference between a, live sparrow and a dead nightingale. Hope's notes are brief-like a gentleman's. He tells that he had met Burns i11 some of the Edinburgh houses, bJlt had not his acquaintance. He is justly grieved at Burns's infatuation for Nicol, which he blames very mudh. for the deterioration of the poet's character. He designates Nicol as " altogether an unprincipled savage,'' and as possessed of " selfish cunning." I cannot help thinking that some of the foul verse that floated about Edinburgh and Dumfries in Burns's name and to his discredit dropped from Nicol, jealous to find himself set in a position inferior to his companion. I feel also that Train ihad a good deal of under-water influence in the attempted swamping of BJlrns's hopes in the Excise Service. There were grave suspicions of anonymous letter activity and jealous calumny, a11d of course Burns laid himself frequently open to attack through his fearless carelessness of criticism, though his superiors testified to his conduct and his qualifications as an officer. It is claimed that the Manuscripts prel!ent the " most direct link " wi'fJh " Highland Mary." And it is Train who says " Truth deprives her history of much of its charm,'' a very quaint way indeed of introducing the next sentence, " Her character was loose in the extreme." How m)lch " charm " does that leave 1 He then proceeds to prove her to have been little if any better than a harlot. He tells how Richmond, Grierson, and he had laid a foul plot to ruin her in Burns's eyes, proving her to be a bit of moral dirt. If it were true, it reveals in the nature of the conspirators as foul and false a character as ever splashed filth over any reputation of saint or sinner. There is no proof in it against " Mary, dear departed Shade." The attempt to drag into identity with her another poor frail woman has been effectively shewn to be a mean lie, by Dr. William Wallace in his revision of Chambers's edition of Burns. It is amazing how much pot-stirring Richmond does for Train and the devil. In all, there is ;no real authentication-papers ana letters, but without authority of originals, all depending on Train and his midden-scraping. And all for the most part detrimental to Burns's reputation arid dharacter. I have no pleasure in him. He is a mischief-monger. His finger-marks are all over Burns, bruising him. And fJlrther-the vpry Manuscript before us is not in his handwriting. So also with the French Smuggler and the Carronades " that Burns bought and sent with his compliments to the French Republic." Tlie Journal of Lewars, telling of the 16 TARES IN THE WHEAT sale of the guns-the Inventory with the purchase in Burns's owµ writing-Sir Walter Scott's report proving thaj; they were stopped at Dover or that they were ever sent--where is the proof1 In Train's " Lost Property Office," as usual. He alone is responsible for the statemenj; that they existed. His statements coloured Lockhart's " biography," and sent adrift a shadow over the name of the Poet that has darkened it through the generations. - The Hisj;ory of Literature, Patriotism, Social Advance, has not been the story of immaculate saints. It is a pity nevertheless it is true. The most rigid psalm-singer does not fling Uriah the Hittite, mi.irdered for a King's passion, in teeth of the Psi;ilmist--nor does the patriot on Trafalgar Day pull down the flag for shame of Lady Hamilton in the life of Nelson. It is very pitiable that so often the songs, examples, sacrifices that inspire the ages to nobility of deed and thought sprang from stumbling, very sin;ning mortals. God pity, and save all poor sinners. What a terrible thing it must be to be God-immaculately good, yet tenderly pitiful-Father of mercy, yet seeing our constant inconstancy, struggle and failure, splendour of dusty courage, and misery of our frequent fall-hearing our cry of purest aspiration and seeing our enslavement to unclean passions-on this petty little bit of rotating Night and Day, dragged in swinging revol:ution round the sun. We can leave carping judgments to iJhe Scavengers of History. There are ash-heaps enough to keep them busy and happy in their work, in the backyards of the College of Slander, where the little men lecture. With God, there is an almighty tenderness of pardon, won in an Eternity of Calvaries. And we can leave it at that. LAUCHLAN MACLEAN w ATT BURNS AND THE SCOTTISH FLORA AN ADDRESS TO THE ·NINETY BURNS CLUB Your President asked me a few months ago to give a short addr,ess to your Club. In a weak moment I acquiesced, and tile- blame must fall on Dr. Birrel~ As some justification for my conduct and presumption, I can claim a fairly close acquaintance not with Ayr but with .Dumfries and its neigh bourhood, with the local. dialect and local plants, and certainly I have read much of Burns and the work of authors discussing Burns himself. In trying to assess what knowledge Burns had of the plants of the field and of tha garden, it is well to have one or two general statements t'o begin with. It is unwise to expect too much, for conditions wer~. none too favourable. It is only from 1750 onwards that the names of plants begin to have a clear definition. Previous to that date there were of course the ordinary popular names which still persist. These vary from country to country and "from county to county. Even such an expression as " the lilies of the field " in the Bible is impossible to interpret with any exactness. Quite a number of plants would answer to such a general term and not one of them need be a lily. There is also the question of the state of gardening in Scotland at the time of Burns. As one writer puts it, the picture of an old Scottish hamlet is most. depressing, since for gardens tlhere was little else than the cultivation of kail in a kailyard. This does not mean that there were m> gardens in Scotland. Some of the noblem~m and· some of the lairds had fine gardetl.&-for the pe'riod. The.se were chiefly maintained by men who .had experience of what gardens were like in the South of England, where horticulture had a much longer history and had gone much farther ahead. It is very doubtful if before 1750 any cottage or farm gardens· in Scotland had progressed beyond the mere kailywrd. The great reputation of the Scots gardener was of. somewhat later date. The awakening in agriculture and in horticulture, as in much else, came before the end of the eighteenth century. The writings of Galt-such as his A11iTwls of the Pa!T'i,sh touched on Ayrshire in the time of Bv,rns. Little is there said of gardens or of :flowers. But the old laird had his B 18 BURNS AND THE SCOTTISH FLORA bohnie Yew trees cut in'tt> the shape of peacocks, and the ' minister (in 1762) planted what became the big pear tree- getting a. sapling f;om LoNl Eaglesham's · gardener-the original having beeii secured from the King's garden in London. This quotation fr?m Galt may not be amiss.:- " I should not, in my notations, fo~et 'to mark a new luxury that got in among the commonality at this time. By the opening of new roads, and the- traffic thereon with carts and carriers, and by our young men that were sailors going to the Clyde, and sailing to Jamaica and the West Indies, heaps of sugar and coffee-beans were brought home, while many, among the kail stocks and cabbaires in their yards, had planted groset and berry bushes; which two things happening together, the !!shion to make iam and jelly, which hitherto had been only knAn in the kitchens and confectioneries of the gentry, came to be introduced into the clachan. All: this, how ever, was not without a plausible pretext; for it was found that jelly was an excellent medicine for a sore throat, and jam a remedy as good as London candy for a cough, or a cold, or a shortness of breath." I doubt whether there is any evidence that Burns or any other Scots poet of "the period had a large vocabulary of plant nam~s or even a great acquaintance with plants. It is of no use to go to the cottage gardens of 1945 and imagine that in them we see something which in Burns's time was certainly more primitive but not entirely unlike what we ilee now. This is quite a mistake. Neither would it be wise to judge from the present names' given in country places to common wild plants that such names were also prevalent in the country in Burns's time. In perusing Burm it is soon obvious that he does not mention many plants except those of the wild. Enthusiasts will have a difficulty ln finding more than a single mention of a garden. Burns read widely, and amongst his reading was the work of other poets. There are many names of flowers which come within the usual apparatus of a poet. The use of ilhese names does not always argue acquaintance wi* the actual plants thems~ves. William Dunbar, who appears in Burns as " rattlin', roarin' Willie," presented the poet with a copy of Spenser, a favourite source of reference to the names ()f ffowers. ' We must remember also the conditions .under which Burns worked. Carlyle in his famous essay says :-" A Scottish peasant's life was the meanest and rudest of all lives till Burns became a poet in it and a poet of it." But he was far and away superior to his environment. Read his letters of the late 'eighties. Can the product of higher education of the present day excel in diction and felicity of expression what Burns was capable of before his thirtieth year1 Not all his contempot'arie!I were; deceived. You may have read - \ ' I BURNS .AND THE SCOTTISH FLORA 19 the reply of. Burns to Mrs. Scott of W auchope where he begins:- I " I mind it weel, in early date." Mrs. Scott's epistle al.I Burns enthusiasts may not have seen, but it begins thus :- · "My cantie, witty, rhyming ploughm~, I haffiins doubt it is no true, man, That ye between the s~ilts was bred, \lti' ploughmen schooled, wi' ploughmen fed; I doubt it safP., ye've drawn your knowledge Either frae grammar-school or college. Guid troth, your saul and body baith War better fed, I'd gie my aith, Than theirs who sup sour milk and parritch, And bummil through the single Carritch." .It is ti!XUl now to consider :the plants mentioned by Bur11)8. The number is somewhat limited, and as a rule there is no doubt as to their identity. I have had a pleasurable excu,rsion right through his poems with my eye upon the names of plants-but then I may have missed some. The very. first reference is to Brier. In the South we would pronounce it Breer, and the term is applied to more than one distinct plant. Burns mentions it often, and in most cases is refers to the Dog Rose (Rosa canirut). Where it is prefixed by the word swee~Sweet Brier-then it is Rosa rubiginosa. But the word in my own exper~ence is also applied to quite a number of the group of Brambles. The Poet speaks early of the Rose. In nearly every case the evidence is that he is thinking of the Wild Rose and not of any garden form. Thus in one of his latest. poems he speaks of the Rosg Brier " that bloom sae far frae haunt o' man." In the old ballads familiar to Burns there is a &1,lggestion that a distinction is drawn between the Garden Rose and the wild ,,one, as we see in the ballad " Fair Margaret "- " Margaret was buryed in the lower chancel, And William in the higher : Out of. ber brest there sprang a rose, And out of his a briar." Garden roses were of course to be found in Burns's day, butrhe does not refer definitely to any garden form. When he speaks o.f " a red, red rose " the inference is that he has in mind a garden form, or, as is perhaps more likely, the customary poetical reference to a favourite flower~ 1 Another favourite plant of his is the FlO'llJering 'l'korn- the Milk-white 1konz..-which is undoubtedly the Hawthorn 20 BURNS AND THE SCOTTISH FLORA (Crat is given as usual in Dumfriesshire for the plant--S'cilla 'Mbtam. I must confess I cannot recall .the country children using that :term. There is no doubt however. about the ~la~t Burns means, for he speaks of tlie Hyacinth that it is " unchanging blue." Perhaps the one poem containing the most referenoe8 to plants is' that entitled " The Posie " which he was intend ing for }\is own particular May. The Poet is ·going to wander down by the river and he is going to pick his flowers there. So we may well assume they are all to be wild flowers. Every thing, however, does not quite fit in, and "1 do not suppose that the Poet cared. One is to be the Pin'k. Now that common name usually refers to Carnation, or Dianthus, but there. is no wild IJia;n,thus likely· to have caught Burne's attention in Scotland, for the Maiden Pink (lJi,anthus del t~s) is a rare plant in this couniry and somewhat incon spicuous. It is true that in his time the Clove Carnation, or ·Clove Pink, was popular in certain gardens in Scotland -grown in beds or in pots--but that is the last thing he would pick down the river. If one must fix on a wild plant, 'the likeliest thing would be what is known as Lady's Smock, or Cuckoo Flower (Oardamine pratensis), which has got a beautiful pink colour, and the word Pink is sometimes used for it. Thus for example in " The Brownie of Bodsbeck " occurs this :- " Enough to make the pinks and the Ewe-gowan blush to the very lip." In some places the plant is called Bog-spinks. In the same poem he mentions the liily, but here I think it is simply the Poet's fancy, for h13 would not find at tliat date any true lilies or anything like them in a Scottish meadow. But for both Pi!nk and for liily the likeliest explanation is :that the Poet had running in his mind a fragment of an old ballad. Thus in the " Queen of. the May." Jocky says to Jenny:- " Among the young lilies, my Jenny, I've stray'd, Pinks, ddsies, and woodbines I bring to my maid; Here's thyme sweetly smelling, and lavender gay, A posy to form for my Queen of the May." The coincidence is certainly suggestive. We come across another quotation which is at first puzzling, where right through a long poem two out of every four lines are:- " Hey, an( the rue lrows bonie wi' thyme" ...... '' And the thyme it is wither' d, and rue is in prime.'' \ 24 BURNS AND THE SCOTl'ISH FLORA There is no difficulty about T}i,yme. Tha~ was known and grown in gardens, although it was not neceasarily the wild Thyme. But Rue is ·-a somewhat unlikely plant to be met with in a cJittage gard.en of Burne's time, and not at all common even now. It is Ruta graveo'leM, and was cultivated ,long ago in monastic gardens and perhaps elsewhere--reputed to be a cure for ulcers. I believe that these two li'tl.ea refer to the old method· of planting out masses of the same thing in front of big houses, in various patterns, somewhat like carpet-bedding, and among other things used for that purpose were certainly Thyme and Rue. But the refrain seems to me to be something that Burns remembered from some old rhyme or ball:ad. * · Of the other common· plants mentioned by Burns e.ither . growing in the wild or in gardens ther~ can be little do11bt as to what plant is meant. Here I need note but one or two where the name may be of uncertain import. He mentions the Elm, and sometimes this is interpreted as the cominon Elm (Ulm'U8 carmpenri8). That tree, however, is very u.ncommon in Scotland, whereas the Wych Elm (UZmU8 mcmta1na) is the one seen everywhere along Scottish roads. The Poet distinguishes two Clovers. The White Clover (Trif-0lwm repem) is the one meant in the -~ine :- " While claver blooms white o'er the lea " ; but in the line :- " " The craik amang the clover hay " it will be the Red Clover (Trifoliwm prateme). He spells the word sometimes claver, which is quite correct and a very old name for it, due to the cleaving 0£ the leaf into three. Do not take it, therefore, as a misspelling or modern Scots, for it is very old indeed. Burns mentions also the Saugh. This is one of the many species of Willow. It is evidence from what Burns sais in the " Epistle to Dr. Blacklock " that the Willow he had in mind is one used for ma.king baskets-usually SalitJJ vi1mlilnnJ,is. This species was llt one time much cultivated in country gardens for that very purpose, and is occs.sionally seen yet though little is now left of the industry. · What I have given above does not cover every plant-name to be found in Burns, but those omitted are in all castle very ordinary plants of which the iqentity is in :a:w doubt. W I~LIAM WRIGHT SMITH .. ' • cf. Kelly Seoe. Prov. 284 (1721) :-"Rue in Thyme should be a Maiden'• Poeie." BURNS AND THE " EDINBURGH GAZETTEER " "At the time when I sent Johnston one of these wema I inclosed, at the request of my warm and worthy friend Robt. Riddel, Esq. of Glenriddel, a prose Essay signed ' Cato,' written by lb.im and addreseed to the delegates for the County Reform, of wh~ch he was one for this County." -Portion of letter (dated 5.th Jar11Uarg 1793) from B'llR"TIA! to Robert Graham of Fintrg. (Bums Chronicle, 1944, page 8.) " CATO'S " PROSE ESSAY ON REFORM 'fhat period of history lying between the fall of the Bastille (1789) a:nd the Reform Bill (1832) is noted in Scotland as an era of acj;1ve radicalism. In England the movement lb.ad begun some time · earlier under men like Cartwright, but the great impetus came from the revolt -of the American colonists and that of the French Third • E11tate. The j;rumpet-blast was Thomas Paine's Rights of man, poesibly the most comprehensive charter of freedom ~ver penned. It was the bible of the Scottish radicals wno founded the " Frienda of the People "--the first organisation in Scotland to agitate openly for parliamentary reform. There were many stalwarts among the " Friends." At the first Convention, held in Edinburgh in December 1792, there were present, among many others, Thomas Muir, William Skirving, Colonel Dalrymple of Fordel, the Rev. Th~mas Fyll8h.e Palmer and Lord Daer (tihe very lord whom Robert Burns " dinnered wi' "). Every man attending the Conven tion was a man of substance or a noteworthy scholar. They were joined later by Maurice Margarot, Joseph Gerrald and Captain William JohDSton, editor and p:ul:llisher of the Edinburgh Gazetteer. With the exception of Colonel Dalrymple and Lord Daer (who died shortly afj;er from \ galloping consumption), all these, men were martyred by tJhe tory government of the day. Democracy in Scotmnd was mm-existent. Politics, such as they were, were dominated by "King Dundas,'~ later to become Viscount Melville. Every burgh and shire franchiee was in his pocket, ii& .be used ·dn behoof of William ;. 26 BURNS AND " EDINBURGH GAZETTEER " Pitt. These were gained by methods of the most flagrant corruption, which disgusted every decent, :thinking being in the country. The only newspaper in the land combatting the charlatanry of Dundas and his boot-licking followers was Johnston's Edinburgh Gazetteer, though, to be sure, many broadsides, pasquila and lampoons were printed surrepti tiougfy a;nd distrib:uted without discretion. It was to Johnston that Burns wrote (13th November 1792) the defiant note when sending his subscription: . " Go on, Sir I Lay bare, with undaunted heart and steady hand, that horrid mass of corruption called Politics and State-Craft I Dare to draw in their native colors these ' Calm, thinking VILLAINS whom no faith can fix ' whatever be tihe Shibboleth of their pretended Party." To those who know their history the tone of this let~r is on the side of restraint. Burns wrote again to the editor on 27th November 1792, enclosing a letter for publication by his friend " Cato." " Cato " was none other than the poet's rhyming an'd antiquaria;n friend Robert Riddel of Glenriddel, and because it is a Burns item of profound interest, which has lain hidden in the files of the Gazetteer for one hundred and fifty-three years~ it is worth reprinting in the Clvromcle. · · - TO THE PRINTER OF THE GAZETTEER Sir, At a period when the kingdoms of Europe are asserting their just rights· and privileges and are trampling under their feet. civil and religious tyranny ;-at a period when Kings are no longer considered as tJhe chara deum sobole1 by a herd of dastardly slaves, but are held in estimation by wise and enlightened people, in proportion as they exert themselves for the general good of the state ;-and at a period when a· REFORM of many abmes that have crept into our excellent Constitution is loudly called for ,-1 would caution my fellow citizens from running into the other extreme, and beg leave to advise them to draw a right line betwixt liiberty and liicenciO'Usnegg, The first a blessing that cannot be !held in too great estimation-the second a curse that cannot be held in too ~reat detestation. The Landed Interest of Scotland have been called togethl:fr, to meet in the .capital of that antient kingdom upon July 2, 1792. They accordingly met, and appointed a Committee, who are to report at the adjourned ge\ieral meeting to be held on December 10. Now, Sir, my principal intention in sending you this letter is, through tlhe vehicle of your newspaper, to request them to conduct j;hem~elves with that oa:ution, persever- f I BURNS AND "EDINBURGH GAZETTEER" 'Z1 ance, and manly deliberation that an affair of such magnitude demands of them. A very great abuse has crept into our present constitutio:n which has long called for the pruning knife of REFORM to lop off-I mean ~every unequal representation of the people in the British Parliament. This intolerable grievance is now much more felt tha.n formerly. When the National Debt was comprized within th\ compass 9f a nut-shell our taxes were of course verv small and very little felt; but now the case il5 altered ; the people are taxed to the teeth-higher than any natio:n in Europe is-which taxes are in a great measure paid by a class of men who have, comparatively speaking, no more to say in the election of their repreaentatives in Parliament tha:n an Indian-a Chinese-or a Laplander I A well regulated Government sho:uld resemble the Egyptian Pyramids-building('! which for solidity and durability exceed all that have ever been erected. The base should bear a certain ·proportion to the height.-This ought to be the case in a properly constructed National Pyramid, and to effect this purpose every Commissioner of Supply in Scotland should be called fortlh to have a vote for his respec tive Knight of the Shire, whether he holds his property of the King or a subject. This claes of men are the most virtuous, manly, independant, steady set of people in the Kingdom; and their welfare is so closely connected with that of the state that they are much more proper to be trusted in the selection of a virtuous patriot to represent them in Parliament than another class who M"e dazzled with the splendoµr of a luxuI'ious Court-corrupted with the blandis'h ments of a peerage-or who have acquired Ministerial estates from successful government contracts, from extensive com mands in the East Indies or from fortunate speculations in purchasing and letting the funds of the Nation. The next abuse to be corrected is the abolition of the office of Lord Advocate-and substituting in its place Grand Juries in every Co:unty. How can the sacred fountains of justice ever flow pure and unadulterated when so overgrown a power is vested in one person; and that person must be a ministerial tool, removeable fr.om this important office at the breath of the favo:urite (of the Monarch's) for the day.-I wanj; words to express my abhorrance at this abuse, which was only equalled when the office of Lord Justice General for Scotland was lhereditary in the family of Argyle. I would next most earnestly recommend to the meeting an introduction of special Juries in civil causes as the only mode to prevent partiality in tJhe decisions upon private•property, and the revival of the now obsolete office of Coroner, to be put upon the same I :28 BURNS AND " EDINBURGH GAZETrEER " footi"Dg as in England. And last of all-an abolition of that monstrous abuse of the holy symbols of our sacred religioµ ; I mean an abolition of the corporation and test acts. Now, if the lande,d Interest of Scotland will firmly unite in bringing forward a bill to Parliament to correct these .abut1e1, it will equally redou,nd to ·their honour in asking, a.a it will to the glory and hono:ur of the .British legislative bodies in gra.nting, redrees to a brave peorlle, who have at all times ·s'hewu their zeal to support their King and Constitution. . . c~ " Cato's" lej;ter is more restrained than that of Burns, though it touches upon the main grievance of the day taxation of people '' who have 110 more say in the election -0f their representatives in Parliament than an Indian, a Chinese, or a Laplander." In his summing-up at the trial of Thomas Muir, Lord Braxfield, J;he tool of Dundas, declared with vehemence that weavers, peasants and townsmen had no right to representa tion: " Mr. Muir might have known that no attention could be paid to such a rabble. . . . A. government in every -country should be just like a corporation; and in th.ia country it is made up of the landed interest, whick alone ha4 tke .rigkt to be '1"epre11ented." .A.a we have seen, however, .some of the landed gentry tho:ught othedvise, and it is graJ;ifying to know that Robert Riddel was among .them. Whether Burns attached himself to the " Friends of filie People " or not is not known, but he was in sympathy with them. When Muir and Palmer were sentenced j;o transportation they lay for some time -0n the convict-ship at Woolwich-both chained by the ankles. Burns makes reference to them in the " Epistle from Esopus to Maria " : '' The ahrinking Bard a.down the alley skulks, And dreads a meeting 'fOrae than Woolwich hulks, Though there his heresies in Church and State Might well award him Muir and Palmer's fate." ;J' OHN S. CLARKE BURNS AND BYRON-A COMPARISON A comparison between these two poets, j;he . one wholly Scottish both ~ nature and nurture, the other Scottish OJl the maternal side and living his dh.ildhood and boyhood's. yeal'6 in so Scottish a city as Aberdeen till j;he age of eleven, is unusua}ly interesting and suggestive. At first sight the points of COJltrast seem more marked the one tSiprung oj peasant stock, the other of the feudal aristocracy; the one reared in poverty and hard toil, the other, not rich certainly, but still basking in " hours of idleness "i the one beholden to !his father's care for all .. his education, j;he other the privileged alumnus, first of the. Aberdeen Grammar School, then Harrow, then Cambridge; the one achieving the Odyssey of his travels with tours in the Highlands and Bordel's, and the climax of a visit to. Scotland's capital, but ihardly ever setting foot outside Caledonia, the other the " travell'd thane " of his own poetry, making the grand tcn1r of Europe, finally an exile in the Mediterranean. Yet, such is the compelling power of geJlius, we shall find either poet fulfilling his destiny on strangely similar lines, as thouglb. birth and social environ ment mattered not at all where flames the poetic fire. There is first of all, then, the physical coincidence 'Of the two lives in time and place. Scotland. is tP.e only national environment 13urns ever knows. Byron lives in it those first impressionable years which the psychologists and' the Jesuits both agree may determine the whole moral and spiritual bias ef later life. Tihey are not actual contem poraries. Byron is only a boy at the Aoerdeen Grammar· School when the news of Burns's death arrives. But both realised the significance, the one at the actual moment, the other as he grew to manhood,' of the tremendous event happening on the Continent, the French Revolution. Burns, like the other poets of that blissful dawn-Coleridie, Wordsworth, Shelley-:--was swept away on the tidal wave. It. helped to inspire his greatest song: " Lay the proud usurper• low ! Tyrants fall in every foe I Liberty's in every blow I Let us do, or die I '' BURNS AND BYRON Byron lived to see the first wave spend itself, and still co:uld break forth into magnificent apostrophe: ''Yet, Freedom I Yet thy banner, tom, but flying, Streams like the thu;nder-etorm against the wind; Thy trumpet voice, though broken now and dying, The loudest still the tempest leaves behind.~' Both were hero-worshippers, of heroes past and present. Unfortunately for Burns, the star of N apoleo!l was only rising. He could not hail it, but he revelled in the story of Ha;nnibal, and he could kneel where Wallace fought and bled. Byron had the whole range of history to stir his imagination, but in ih.is noon there was· one Titanic figure that overshadowed" all others--Napoleon. This was his Prometheus, in lhis zenith, his Saviour of Mankind, even in his downfall a Cresar, if only " a bastard Ctesar." A narrow patrioti8m did not prevent either from survey ing the American War of lndepende;nce with cool detacli.ment. Burns, in " fiytin' " mood, makes great fun of the Bl'itish generals : Howe, Gage, Burgoyne, Clinton and Cornwallis. He almost anticipates the pro-Boers of a later day :- " Burgoyne gaed up, like spur an' whip, Till Fraser brave did fa', man : T!h.en lost his way, ae misty day, In Saratoga shaw, man. I Cornwallis fought as lang's he dought, · An' did the buckskins claw, man; But Clinton's glaive frae ru.st to save, He h':1ng it to the wa', man." Disillusione,d after Waterloo and the ba;nishment of Napoleon to St. Helena, Byron turned for consolation to him whom he ~alled " the Cincinnatus , of the W:est "-George . Washmgton. · ' Politically, tihe;n, both men were of the same mind lovers of freedom, of humanity, haters of tyranny in every shape or form, political, social, religious, of all institutions where mere privilege was entrenched. They held with Rousseau-" man was born free, everywhere he is in chains." Both were eminently sincere i;n their outspokenness, in their denunciation of all pretence and humbug. That, of co:urse, was Carlyle's chief reason for numbering Burns--much to the surprise of conventional mi;nds-among his Heroee. How much greater would have been that surprise had he numbered Byron too, as well he might have, in that elite I , As it was, he has told us in a memorable passage how, when the word came that Byron had died, he went out on to the Solway BURNS AND BYRON 31 Sande, and, looking up to the empty sky, exclaimed i:n awed wonder, " Byron ie dead, Byron is dead." Both lives were ~peatuoue, of that\there can be no denial. . They flamed up quickly, blazed fiercely a little while, and flamed out. It was all over in a brief three dozen years, much like Alexander the Great. It was not• merely that they' loved passionately a:nd errantly. Certainly the old Adam in either was unsubduable--adamant. But the social order oppressed them. Burns knew he had it in him to excel, to be a leader, a senator, a statesman, if only he could " break !his birth's invidious bar and grasp the skirt of happy chance, and breast the blow of circumstance, and grapple with his evil star." It his secret heart he was a rebel. Maybe, after all-but say it not on Natal Nicht-his poetry was only his seco:nd-beet. There were men who admired ihim, admired hie poetry, admired his prose, and who yet thought the powers he revealed in conversation were still more wonderful. The paradox of Byron lay in this, that he both posed as, and actually was, a rebel against the social order. Hia domestic tragedy was real : " Is thy face like thy mother's, my fair child I Ada, sole daughter of my house and heart 1 Whe:n last I saw thy young blue eyes they smiled, And then we parted,-not as now we part, But with ~ hope.-" One cannot read these and other lines without feeling the father's anguish. The poet's heart is moved. We may depre cate the st)ldied pose of " The wandering outlaw of his own dark mind," ~ and smile even when " Long absent Harold re-appears at last; He of the breast which fain no more would feel, Wrung with the wounds which kill not, but ne'er heal." Yet t~at Byron, but yesterday the darling of Society, and now ostracised, felt hurt, resentful, surely no-one will deny. What amazes one rather is j;he largeness of vision with which he surveys tJhe European scene, appraises scornfully the after math of the Napoleonic debacle, mourns for the pure and noble idealism of the Revolution, and mocks at the Holy Alliance:- " BURN& AND BYRON " Fit retribution I Gaul may champ the. bit And foam in fetten,..-but ia Earth more free i Did nations oomba.i to make One submit; · Or leagµ.e to tee,eh all kinga true 1Qvereignty t What I shall reviving .Thraldom again be The pa.tched-up idol of enlightep.ed da.yst Shall we, who struck the Lion down, shall m} Pay the·Wolf homagef proffering Jowly gaze . And servile knees to throne.sf No, pTove before ye praise." To speak, aa critics often speak, of Byron's poetry as rhetoric, is to hinj; at a truth not always divined about the ma.n-that he had the makings oi a great orator, a great statesman. The disillusionment revealed time and agai;n in the third and fourth cantos of " Childe Ha.rold's Pilgrimage" takes on a cynical note in " The Age of Bronze." But i;he mind commenting on it all is shrewd, far-seei;ng, esaentially the mind of a man fit to lead men, to take the measure of a situation, to cope with things. In these poems the lai;er Byron is clearly prefigured, the Byron who was to lead the Greek.s in the strµggle for 'independe;nce. Both Burns and Byron were robust men of flesh and blood. Poets as a rule are not so sturdily built, or at least; we do not think of them so. Keats and Shelley are more in the poetic tradition. Even whe;n you have a big, shaggy Tennyson -" a spoilt Life.guardsman," Carlyle called him-you feel that somehow in his life as the littirary reclµ.se he lost i;he force that is so manifest in Burns and Byron. Even a Whitman, ample enough in person, softens with his avowal, " I loaf." There is ;none among poets ancient or modern, if· we except Goethe, who can compare for throbbing vitality with the tempest-tossed Byron or Burns. No wonder they took the contemporary drawing-room world by storm. Burns, to be sure, was overdeveloped as a boy on his father's croft, doi;ng a man's work when he was still a " halflin." Allan Cunningham. has told us of his ·prowess with his putting-stone, which no living man . in Nithsdale could poise in the air. Wileon, in his Tales of the Borders, depicts him as reminiscent in a. way of Wallace; and no one forgets· Lockhart's description of the "big, brawny, blackbrowed peasant who swept the dainty ladies of the Edinburgh salons off their feet." • Byron, on the other hand, if not dowered with Burns's magnificent physique,,e:tcelled i;n all manly activities-riding, rowing,· fencing, boxing, and thf.t despite the severe handicap of Ibis lameness. Those were the palmy. days of the noble art of self-defence, and Byron was known as Gentleman Jackson's favourite pupil. BJ1t swimming was undoubtedly BURNS AND BYRON 33 the pastime in which Byron showed his greatest proweee. The sea. had been his joy from earliest boyhood by the sea at Aberdeen. No one can. miss the rapture of those lines i11 " Childe Harold " : " And I have loved thee, Ocean I and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers-they to me Were a delight; and if the freshening sea Made them a terror-'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane-as I do here." And his most famous exploit, the one of which he was proudest, though typically enough he IJl these two poets-and, we might add, Carlyle's prose-poem of The Fren,ch Revoluti " '1'he Vision of J:ud:gment " he returned to his pet literary aversions, but this time the satire is edged with laughter. Burns, of course, hSB nothing of the immense sweep of " Don Juan," but in "Death and Dr. Hornbook," "Holy Willie's Prayer," "Address to the Up.co Guid," " The Twa. Herds," "A Dream," "The American Wa.r," " The Holy Fa.ir,'~, he shows thefsame uncanny $ill in covering with ridicule the humbug and hypocrisy of the body ecclesiastic as well as the body politic . .But Burns's satire never lapsed ip.to cynicism as Byron's lapsed in " The Age of Bronze." Burns did p.ot live to experience utter disillusionment in regard to the New World promised by the French Revolution as did Byron an.d Wordswo:rth. He lived lo;ng enoJ).gh to have his dormant patriotism. roused by the prospect of a French invasion :- " Does lliaughty Gaul invasion threat1 " is his challenge, as ringing and firm as that 0f the later Tennyson :- " That ma:n's the best cosmopolite Who serves hi.s native country best." He !has indeed an inferiority COlllple-x, due probably to his humble birth, which is altogether lacking in the aristo cratic Byron. That complex explains much of Burns's aggres sive assertion of personal independence and the essential nobility of man as distinct from " yon birkie ea.' d a. lord." Yet, let us never forget, it is the peasant paet who retains his faith in his fellowmen in spite of all failure and dis appointments, whether theirs or his own; it is the peasant poet who has the seer's visio:n o~ the coming day, "When man to man the world o'er· Shall brithers be for a.' that." . , · The disill118ioned Byron could not attain tlhat PiSgak vision. Both, I have said, are pioneers in the new awakening iA poetry known as the Return to Nature. Bqt they follow each his own peculiar pa.th of return. Burns li.ngers ·Jovingly by lowly bum or brook, by the flowers in the field or wayside, by stream or waterfall, meadow or brae. It is not withoµt significance that when he punned on his ow:n r name in French it was as Robert' Ruisseaux. His poetic gods a.re of the plain. Byron's are emphatically of the hills, :iui.yi the :mountains, the high-sbari:ng Alps and Apennines, ·dark Locbnagar, the avalanche, the lig~tning, the ocean, iihe 18.ke in storm, the bounding riv:er, all that is mighty, maje&ti~. sublime in nature. We cannot picture Byran makfog ·d.• I 36 BURNS AND BYRON " address " to either " a mountain daisy " or " a fieldi mouae." Both p~ts, true to type, need solitude, woo it to cultivat& :the muse. Says Burns ~- " Tihe Muse, nae poet ever fand her, Till by thimsel' he learn'd to wander, Adown some trotti;ng burn's meander, An' no think lang: 0, sweet to stray, an' pensive ponder A heart-felt sang I." But, granted that temporary solitude, and the m:use success fully woo'd, he hurries back to the homely fireside, io hi. wife and bairns. " Jean," he proudly exclaims, " I have made a poem.'' The muse placated, he is the friendliest, most companionable of men. Not so "mjlord Byron." He is moody, gloomy, saturnine, '' the outlaw of his own dark mind." He broods witµ melancholy frown. He has drunk a cup of bitterness. In brief, when all allowance has been made for his sorrows and sins, Byron is a poseur. Burns never posed. He was too'great for that. . Both ar~ men qf great intellectual powers. It was repeatedly said of Burns by capable judges such as Robertson the historian that '' his poetry surprised me very much, his proee surprised me still moi:e, and his conversation surprised me more than both his poetry and prose." " He often lamented to me," says Robert Riddel, " that fortune had not placed lhim at the bar or in the senate; he had great ambition, and the feeling that he could not gratify it preyed upon him severely." Byron took his seat in the House of Lords and his firsj; speech was on behalf of the wage-earners of Nottingham. Byron and Labour-the theme seems rather intriguing I He was absorbed in the life-and-death struggle' tJhat convulsed Europe. His " Don Juan " and the later cantos of " Childe Harold " are his wise and caustic com mentary on the human scene. His genuine flair for action fo:u:nd vent in the end in hie espousal of the Greek fight for freedom. He bepame in reality what Burns secretly nourished as his own aspiration-" the patriot bard " of j;he closing· stanzas of " The Cotter's Saturday Night." As lyrical poets both are inevitably intensely subjective. Yet both can be objective too, Byron in his professed dramas: and mystery plays, while Burns shows dramatic powers of a high order in such a work as " The Jolly Beggars," which indeed is acclaimed' by som~ di~cerning critics as his greatest pomic achievement. But 'as a rule Byron rarely loses his own identity, however remote from himself the theme of the BURNS AND BYRON 37 poem may seem to be. In " Childe Harold " he is, of' -course, confessedly, " the wandering outlaw of his own dark mind," but it is the same in "Lara," "The Corsair," " Giaour," " Manfred," " Don Juan," and even in a play such as " Cain " he is just what the popular complaipt said he was, his own hero. Even i:n their attitude to classical learni:qg, Burns from the outside; Byron from the inside, are strangely alike. They are rebels. It is qµite wrong of course to think or speak, as so many think a:nd speak, of Burns as an untutored genius. The cotter's son had an excellent education provided by his father, and even the aid of 'a private tutor. He !himself studied and continued his self-education all his life. But certainly he had not the hall-mark of a university education. Byron, OD\ the other hand, had been through the mill of the approved classical curriculum of his day, first at the Aberdeen Grammar School, then at Harrow, finally at Cambridge . .Yet in the end his attitude was just that of the non-academic, horny-handed son of the soil- " A set o' dull, conceited hashes Confuse their brains in college-classes, They gang in stirks, and come out asses, \ Plain truth to speak ; And syne they think to climb Parnassus By dint o' Greek I · " Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the lear:ning I desire; Then, tho' I dr:udge thro' dub an' mire At pleugh or cart, ·My Muse, tho' hamely in attire, May touch the heart." But Byron felt resentment as well as disdain. He had personal memories of the mill as Burns had not. He had all. the dilettante's contempt for the philologists, 3S BURNS .AND BYRON ''. Prizi;ng Bentley's, Brunck's, or PorS0n's note,: More than the verse on whicih the Cl'itic wrote." . But, sadder still, and even on the sacred soil of his beloved Italy, in sight of lone Sorac:te, he recaUs his school studies o~ the poet Horace with repulsion :- " I abhorr' d Too much to conquer for the poet's sake,. The drill' d dull lesson, forced down word by word In my repugna;nt youth, with pleasure to record- " Aught that recalls the daily dru~ which turn'd My. sickening )llemory; and, thoµ.gh Time bath taught'· · My mind to meditate what then it learn'd, ' Yet such the fix'd inveteracy wrought By the impatience of my early thought, ' That, with the freshness wearing out before My mind could relish wihat it might have sought, If free to choose, I cap.not now restore Its health; but what it then detested, still abhor. ,,, Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so, Not for thy faults, but mine; it is a curse To understand, not feel thy. lyric flow, To comprehend, but never love thy verse, Although no deeper Moralist rehearse Our little life, nor Bard prescribe his art, Nor livelier Satirist the conscience pierce, Awakening without wouJ}ding the touch'd heart, Yet fare thee well-upon Soracte's ridge we part." It is the old scorn of the creator for the grammarian, bf the poe:t for the mere scholiast, dating back. to the youthful Shakespeare's oµ.tburst :- " Small have continual plodders ever won Save b!Mle authority from other[( books." Yet this same Byron, " if free to choose "-for tJhere's the ru~an write the res:t of Canto Four of " Childe Harold's Pilgrimage," and the " Isles of ·Greece," to mention no more, recording his spontaneous love of ancient Greece and Rome in imperishable verse. Whiclh all proves what 1 Just this-that an orthodox Uniyersity education, desirable as it is for the average man or woman, would have made little appreciable difference to Burns's capacity of expression, just a.a 'similar want fettered 'the genius' ·()f a Keats not a whit, even when he took as poetical thetne th.ose very myths and legends of the ancieait I BURNS .AND BYRON 39 classics which were; supposed to be the sa,cred prese:iwe of professed scholars. Truly the wi;nd bloweth where it listeth, and-again to quote Shakespeare-- " No profit grows where is µo pleasure ta'en: In brief, sir; study what you most affect." Lastly there is the fascinating theme of these two poets' outlook on the supernatural, their attitude to the Universe, to the ultimate things. This is ttie more fascinating when we remember, what I have stressed from the outset of my theme, their common national heredity. Both, I ;need hardly say, are too robust for orthodox institutional religion. They see too clearly the sham, the hypocrisy, the unreality-not of it all, but of a great deal of it. That indeed gives point to much of their satire. But that is not enoµgh. Mockery could never satisfy their Scott:i&h hearts. Burµs says little about Christianity in· its essence or its dogmas. He is entirely a theist. He acknowledges a Judgment Day. He knows in his heart of hearts j;hat, though erring, he has been sorely ~ried. " A Bard's Epitaph " is !his plea for mercy and understanding. He too, like Othello, has been " perplex'd i' th' extreme." Much of his mockery and raillery can be dismissed as mere bravado. " Tam o' Shanter " is just one gale of laughter blowing through superst~tion. " Pure religion and undefiled " he has immortalised i;n the picture he has given of his own father's and mother's fireside. And there is his immense sympathy with all creation, bird and man and beast--and, last of all, the Devil. An immense heart, truly. He can be sorry even for Satan. Perhaps it is Burns's s.upreme distinction in all literature. Byron has too much of the brooding, melandholy, introspective thinker to make light of the supernatural. " M&.Jlfred " is the appropriate setting for ihis communion with the s:t-.hit-world. Satan can never be for him a figure of fun. Even in " The Vision of Judgment " he pauses to award him some of his noblest lines :- " But bringing up the rear of this bright host,' A Spirit of a different aspect waved His wings, like thunder-clouds above some crest Whose barren beach with frequent wrecks is paved; His brow was like the deep when tempest-toss'd. Fierce and unfathomable tho.ughts engraved Eternal wrath on his immortal face, And where he gazed, a gloom pervaded space." Sata;n is a heroic (gure to Byron as, to Milton. I like to trace Byron's absorption in the stories and characters of 40 BURNS AND BYRON the liible to his early days in Aberdeen. He had a nurse or maid in thoee infant days that told him these Bible stories, and we see the fruit of those years in Hebrew Melodies such as " Vision of Belshazzar " :- '' The King was on his throne, The Satraps throng'd the hall," ana "Jephthah's Daughter":- " Oh I snatched away in beauty's bloom, On thee shall press no pondrous tomb,'' and best kn.own of all, " The Destruction of Sennacherib " : " The Assyrian ca,m.e _dow:n like the wolf on the fQ\d." But there was a later Byron than this, the Byron who felt himself accursed, with the mark of Cain on his brow, and who -daring iconoclast 1-cib.allenged God, even as the Hebrew poet challenged the Almighty in the drama of Job, giving his awed contemporaries first, " Cain : a Mystery,'' and then that fragment of another Mystery, " Heaven and Earth." I remember Sir Herbert Grierson, in his speech at the unveil ing of the Byron statue in the grounds of the poet's first school, the Aberdeen Grammar School, making the interesti:ng suggestion that it was Byron with his daring challenge to the orthodox ilnterpretation of Holy Writ who blazed the trail for the la.ter heresies of William Robertson Smith I The story of the first murderer-a fratricide a.t S;b.at was sure to appeal to Byron's fevered imagination. It drove him in fierce reaction to utter tlhe challenge of .his Mystery Play. Both he and Burns were the victims of Calvinism, with its terrible doctrines of Hell-fire and Predestinatiol\; and Burns too, as his letters frequently reveal, had the sa.me way ward sympathy with the fallen Lucifer as Byron. Never theless it will always seem strange to me that it was the vagabond Byron rather than the home-keeping Burns who most deeply felt and revealed the influence on his mind of the Hebrew Bible. J. MINTO ROBERTSON TWO LETTERS OF MARIA RIDDELL The first of the letters printed !here belongs to the series written by Mrs. Walter (or Maria) Riddell to Dr. James Currie during the ten years from .1796 to 1805, when Currie was writing the life and editi:ng- the works of Burns. It is one of ~veral letters that were missing from the series, of nearly forty, when these passed through a London sale-room in 1918. By good fortune it has now joined the thirty-five wihich are preserved in the Alloway Burns Cot~age Museµm, and it is printed here by the kind permission of the Trustees of that institution, through their Hon. Secretary, Colonel T. C. Dunlop, A.D.C., T.D., D.L. The thirty-five letters referred to were printed in the First Series of the Burns Glvr I MARIA RIDDELL TO DR. JAMES CURRIE [with seve'l'al pages of he'I' poems in manusc'l'ipt] Richmond, 25th April 1799 Our Correspondence at present seems to be in a high fever, my dear Dr .-two letters in one month-this is going on at a. pretty rate, truly ! I have heard of some whimsical philo sopher, I forget whom, who wrote a b<>ok on the doctrine of correcting fevers by throwing COLD w·ATE:it on them. I hope you will suffer the diwrder to go on a little longer, however, before you are cruel enouglh to apply the said violent remedy of cold water to damp the ardor of our epistolary intercourse. The " precious morceau " you favor me .with is indeed not new to me; but where you find any merit in it, fausse 42 LETTER!:! OF MARIA RIDDELL modestie apart, I am at a loss to divine. However, I submit myself to yr. more flattering (I know µot, !however, if in this instance, better) judgment; )tut do not expose me too mudh to be taken to pieces by the Critics; consider my Se:x: aµd in"f/rmities, and use me tenderly and with discretion. I / must observe that the 2d .and 3d lines of this exquisite relic ' shd. !have run " For ah I thou know'st na' every pang " &c. "Wad wring my bpsom shd. I leave thee." 'Tweel is a vile phrase. Yo'u seem in yr. note to imply that B--'s remonstr :MAB.IA RIDDELL TO [SUlON M'KENZIE?] Richmond, 20th May 1799 ·Sir, In ~nswer to yours of the lOth last montJb., I will trouble you with a few lines on the subject o! the bard's :in,onument, having corresponded witJb. several persons upon the subject (Dr. Currie, &c.) whose judgm.ent is very f'ar preferable to mine, . and we all agree that the first th1:ng to be done is to collec1;- what money can be got for that purpoee, in which we will all do what service we can as soon as the posthumous works are published ; b;ut those who are at all saddled with that business must get it off their hands before they commence am;other undertaking. Perhaps an application, or at any rate the consulting with Mr. Flaxman on the subject of the design, &c. mig'ht answer better from and with persons he is already acquai:nted with, and more heads than one should be called in counsel on the ocaasion. If, therefore, you or the other gentlemen concerned in this project think it proper, I will talk it over with Mr. Flaxman and some other artists, friends of his, whom I know, and Mr. F. can then let you know his fdeas on the subject. The monument should be characteristic of him to whom it is raised, and ,the artist must somehow be made acquainted with him and his works, which it is possible !he may not be at present. The inscription sho;uld be first rate. I think either Rosqoe or Dr. Darwin would contribute their talents for the purpose, and it could not be given into better hands. I have no names to add to your list; bu;t whenever that for tJb.e posthumous works is closed, I will set to work in earnest. Pray remember me to Mr. Syme when you see him, from whom, I know not why, I never hear nQ'11J. I am, Sir, Your humble servant, :MARIA RIDDEL I BURNS AND MRS. COCKBURN It is matter of regret that no account exists of the meeting or meeti:pgs of. Robert Burns and Mrs. Alison Cockburn during the poet's visits to Edinburgh. We know that they did meet, as Burns refers to her as an '' acquaintance '' in a let~er written to George Thomson in. 1793: " The three stanzas beginning ' I hae seen the smiling o' Fortune beguiling ' are wor~hy of a place [in Thomson's Select collection of orvginal Scotish airs], were it but to immortalize the Author of them, who is an old Lady of my acquaintance and at this moment living in Edinburgh." 'l'hat this ac9uain tance was fairly close is suggested by a reference in Burns's journal of his highland tour. In writing about a Mrs. Lawson of Paisley he says that-" like old Lady W- and still more like Mrs. C-, her conversation is pregnant with strong sense and just remark, but, like them, a certain air -0f self-importance and a d'l.b'f'esse in the eye seem to indicate, as the Ayrshire wife observ'd of her cow, that ' She had a mind o' _her ain.' " By Mrs. C- he almost certainly meant Mrs. Cockburn. Mrs. Cockburn refers to Burns in three letters written to the Rev. Robert Douglas of Galashiels, but nowhere does she mention having met him. She writes on 30th December 1786 that . . . " The town is at present agog with the pkmghman poet, who receives adulation with native dignity, and is the very figurer of his professiQD-strong and. coarse- but has a most enthusiastick heart o:t LOVE. He has seen dutchess Gordon and all the gay world. His favrite for looks and manners is Bess Burnet-no bad judge indeed." On 1-0th January 1787 she writes-... " Sorry I am my poems are not returned from Niece Scot, though she promilled them this week. The one I admired most is ' The Cottar's Saturday Night.' The man will be spoiled, if he can spoil, but he keeps his simple manners and quite sober. No doubt he will be at the Hunters' Ball to-morrow, which has made all women and milliners mad " . . . Then on 6th February 1788 -she makes a passing reference to his poetry . . . " Are you fond of poe.try 1 Do ye know Burns 1 I am tb get a very pretty little thing he calls ' The Rosebud.' Maybe I'll -send next week .. .'' (These extracts are quoted from Letter.s and memoitr of her I THE BURNS HOUSE, YAUCHLINE JEAN ARMOUR BURNS MEMORIAL As is natural to a place whose history is of quiet but steady industry and 'moderate prosperity, Mauchline haa' changed considerably since· Burns's day. But the house in which the poet lived, as well as the main features of the immediate neighbourhood, have to a remarka}>le degree remained as they w~e in 1788, when he began His married life in an upstairs room there. The house is a two-storie.d thatched building, still in good condition although it is at least 200 years old. The red sandstone of which it is built has kept its freshness td a degree possible only in a country town little affected by the march of industry, and time has dealt equally gently with the surro;unding buildings. · · Castle Stre(it, in which the house stands, was in Burns's day and long af~erwards known as the Back Causeway. Tha~ vivid name has long vanished, as has the street's function as part of the coach road between Kilmarnock and Ayr. But the thoroughfare still remains at the heart of Mauchline's Burns associations. Directly. opposite it is the scene· of "The Holy Fair "-the parish churchyard where are buried four of the poet~s children and many contemporary townsfolk whose living memorial is in his poems. On the other side of this little " God's acre " are the Cowgate and " Poosie Nansie's '' inn, where the Jolly Beggars met. Next door to the cottage is a house traditionally associated witµ Burns's friend, Dr. John M'Kenzie. In the same street stands "Auld Nanse Tinnock's," still looking almost as it did a century and a half ago. Both of these last buildings have noWJ appropriately been made part of the memorial and benevolent scheme centerin'.g round the Burns house. Close at hand are Mauchline Castle and the house of Burns's early patron, Gavin Hamilton. Only a mile away is Mossgiel, Burns's home for the most productive four years of his life and the farm in which were sunk most of the profits of his printed Poems. Within a radius of a few miles clusters a host of other places bearing interesting and often romantic associations with the national poet-among them Lochlea and Largieside, Tarbolton and Failford, Catrina and Ballochmyle. z < ~ THE BURNS HOUSE, MAUCHLINE 47 1 The actual house in which Burns lived was originally a single twG-stor~ed 'residence of six rooms. Downstairs were kitchen, dining room and probably a sitting room; upstairs were three bedrooms. By Burns's day it had, however, come down in life and the rooms seem to have been let separately by the proprietor, Archibald Muckle, tailor in Mauchline. Burns's connection with the house began in the spring of 1788, and ended in the winter of that year. On his return in February 1788 from Edinburgh to his home at Mossgiel, he found Jean Armour expelled from her home as the result .of her association with him. " Jean," he wrote in a letter, '' I found banished like a mar~yr, and I have taken her a room." This was one of the upper rooms of the house-the room now on view to visitors as such. " Bonnie Jean " was installed there, and there twins were borri. Their birth-and death a few days later-were recorded by Burns in his family bible as well as by Saunders Tait, the Tarbolton poet, in his Poem.a and songs. (1790.) · The couple began their married life in the room Jean1 was occupying', for Burns was busy building a house on the 1 farm recently leased by him at Ellisland, in Dumfriesshire, and was trav~lling constantly to and fro between there and , Mauchline. " I am," he wrote at the time, " eight or ten days at Mauchline and Ellisland alternately." To Jean ·too the room was more or less a pied a terre, 1for she was, Burns wrote, " regularly and constantly apprentice to my mother and sisters in their dairy and other rural business " ~t Mossgiel. In November husband and wife went to Dumfries shire to the farm there, and the tenancy of the room in Mauchline presumably came to an end. The survival of the house in the following century was not due to any public or official effort. Although it became· to some extent a place of pilgrimage and was shown to visitors by the succession of priv~te occupiers, no authorita tive body took che.rge of it until 1915. Early in that year. ,the Glasgow and Distric~ Burns Associ ation had its attention drawn to the fact that the owner was willing to consider selling the property. Negotiations were started, and by the generosity of the late Mr. Charles R. Cowie, an East India merchant living in Glasgow· and a perfervid Burnsian, the Association was in a very short time enabled to buy the house. The purchase price was paid by Mr. Cowie, who gave as a further contribution to the scheme the funds needed to restore the interior from its bad state of repair. In this last connection Mr. Ninian MacWhannell, F.R.I.B.A., another of Glasgow's notable band of Burns enthusiasts, voluntarily gave his services, while Messrs . .. 48 THE BURNS HOUSE, MAUCHLINE Thomas Findlay & Sons, of Mauchline, cari:ied out his instruc tions in a very capable manner. The property was put thoroughly in order, and was publicly opened in August 1915. Of the furnishing of the poet's room in his day no record exists except the mention of a mahogany bed which he pre- corresponds, 1 sented to his wife. The furnishing scheme therefore, to what would be probable in his time and station. · The adjoining room was arranged as a museum of Burns relics, a;nd the other three rooms of the house were devoted to providing accommodation for deserving old people. An endowment fund has been established to provide small pensions' for these. A further development of the ·scheme followed in 1916, when the house next to that associated with Burns and his wife was bought by the Association. This house, damaged by a fire some years before, was in a state unfit for habita tion, and official purchase seemed the only way to avoid its destruction. Owing to the war nothing was done to incor- 1porate it .in the original plan until 1919, when it was ' converted into further accommodation for old people. At time the museum section of the other house was \ the same extended . .This second cottage, lohg known locally as " the doctor's shop,'' was traditionally associated with Dr. John M"Kenzie, medical adviser, patron and friend of Burns. It is known from the title deeds that Dr. M'Kenzie had an interest in the possession of it from 1788 and was owner of it from 1815 to 1831, but whether he ever lived there or had a consulting room in the house cannot be ascertained. It must remain e. possibility to which certain facts lend support. The final stage of. the scheme was reached in 1924 by the purchase and restoration of the historically interesting building that stands opposite the M'Kenzie house-" the Sma' Inn," immortalisr,d by Burns as " Auld Nanse Tinnock's." It, too, was bought by Mr. Cowie and presented by him to the Association. Unfortunately Mr. Cowie died before the houEte was formally opened, but his widow performed this ceremony in May 1924, following upon which a memorial tablet tb Mr. Cowie was unveiled upon ~he wall of the Burns M'Kenzie houses. References to the inn and to the landlady, Nanse Tinnock,. wife of Robert Weir, occur in Burns's works, and its wealth of associations with him amply merit its preservation as part of the Mauchline shrine. The building, like the other houses, shelters deserving old people-its latter days thus providing a somewhat piquant contrast to its earlier fame as the " change-house " mentioned in " The Holy Fair." THE BURNS HOUSE, MAUCHLINE 49 The inn is a very old ·building, bl,\ilt probably about 1712. It passed into the possession of Robert Weir in 1749, and thirty-three years later he, " being resolved while in health to settle my worldly affairs so as to prevent differences and disputes that might arise amongst my wife and children after my death," disponed the property to " Agnes Tunnock, my Spouse, in liferent during all the days of her lifetime after my death." In 1800 Agnes Tinnock is referred to as the widow of Robert Weir .• She seems to have died about 1808, and is buried in the churchyard adjoining the inn.' The building has friendly, hospitable associations wlth Burns. Its landlady he described as " a worthy old Hostess of the Author's in Mauchline, w~re he sometimes studies Politics over a' glass of guid, aula Scotch, drink:" Here he records writing verse, p.nd further refererlces ar~ made to thE;i inn in " The Holy Fair." With the back of its upper floor forming part of the actual cfuurchyard bQundary, " N anse Tinnock's " was perhaps a too convenient resort for those of the congregation whose thoughts strayed fro:in the sermon. The back door of the inn actually opened on to that part of the churchyard where the preaching tent was raised on occasions of Communion. The steps. taken to preserve these houses are amply justi fied by the widespread public interest taken in them. The fact that during 1944 nearly 1700 people made. their way from all over the world to this seclu~ed corner of Ayrshire in order to visit these cottages betoken!! a warm human interest in them. Apart from the simple aim of pilgrimage to haunts known through Burns's writings, a very real interest is taken by the visitors in the contents of the Museum. These have now reached considerable importance, and include numerous well-authenticated personal· relics of special appeal. Paramount in interest is the Armour Family Bible, con taining the record of the marriage of James ArmQur and Mary Smith and the register of their family. This 0 record shows that " a daughter called Jean,'1 the second of their eleven chil~ren, was born at Mauchline on 26th February 1765; 1 Several of Burns's manuscripts, one of his watches, and ~o of his razors are among the exhibits that underline the personal appeal of the houses and make them one of the most cherished links with Burns. As regards the benevolent purpose of the scheme, nine apartments in the three houses are now devoted to old people . • Each of the tenants lives there rent and rates free, and in addition receives an annual allowance. "ELIZABETH . EWING D .A YR .ACADEMY LITER.ARY SOCIETY· BURNS SUP.PER Last January, while lovers of Burns the world over were WE, John Smith Clarke, J.P., two Walmer Cr~scent, Glasgow, President; Charles Carmichael, fifty-four Chats worth Street, Derby, and Alexander Emslie, M.A., five Royal .Avenue, Belfast, Vice-Presidents; John ~Vie, thirteen Hill side Crescent, Edinburgh, Honorary Secretary; and James Macintyre, 'seventeen New Road, Mauchline, Honorary 'Treasurer; as Trustees em officiis of the Burns Federation, :(rilmarnock, Considering that i~ is part of the objects of the Burns Federation to stimulate the teaching and study of Scottish history, literature, art and music, and in particular the study of the Works of Rober~ Burns, and Considering that •a Fund called the Central Fwnd has been raised by subscrip tion from Burns Clubs on the Roll of the Burns Federation and from their members· for carrying out these objects, therefore we, as Trustees foresaid, hereby provide and declare· that the income from the said Cen.trat Fwnd shall be applied only towards the teaching and f:ltudy of Scottish history, literature, art and music, and in particular the study of the Works of Robert Burns, and including ~he printing of lists of Scottish Books recommended for study, and, in order to stimulate and encourage the study of the Works of Robert Burns, the marking and repair of Memorials associated with him; In Witness Whereof these presents are subscribed by, us, as Trustees foresaid, all at Glasgow on the Ninth day <0f September Nineteen hundred and forty-four, before these witnesses James Cameron Ewing, Eight Royal Terrace, Glasgqw, and Frederick James Belford,1 Three Park Grove, Liberton, Edinburgh. (Signed) John S. Clarke Chas. Carmichael (Sign.ed) J. C. Ewing, Witness Alex. Emslie F. J. Belford, Witness John McVie James Macintyre BURNS CLUB NOTES ' 0 : KILMARNOCK BURNS CLUB . "After its six years of slumber Kilmar:p.ock Burns Clup got 9ff again on its course to a. flying start." '.l'hese words, which conclude the t'eport of the Kilmarnock Standard on the Anniversary Supper of 1945, sum up the state of affairs in Federation Number 0 to a nicety. Kilmarnock, a hard-working industrial community, wa& ful~y mobilised for War and Civil Defence, and in 11939 th& Committee postponed Club activity for an indefinite period. However, in the autumn of 1944 there was a stirring, among the local Burns enthusiasts, and a general meeting of the• Club decided that if providence in the persons of caterer and spirit merchant could produce the necessary ingredients, th& .anniversary celebration must b~ ~esumed. The Committee were fortunate in securing the services of Mr. John S. Clarke," J.P., President of the Burns Federation, to propose "The Immortal Memory," and if sale of tickets had not been limited to 100 by the catering firm the attendance on 23rd January might well have been a record. - Dr. R. C. Hamilton, of Crookedholm, occupied the chair • .T.he attendance was representative of all classes and pro fessions, and the geniality and cheerfulness of the new Presi dent did much to encourage and to maintain a happy atmos phere. Mr, Clarke was at the top of his form. He was. listened to with rapt attention, and' accorded an ovation for his inspired address. Other speeches had. a pleasant variety and, with the musical items of a high standara, the .'end of the programme appeared to come swiftly, close on midnight. It was unanimously voted " a guid nicht." Membership at present is 70, but the Committee are hope ful that as food restrictions are eased they will have little difficulty in bringing that number closer to 200. A pro gramme has been arranged for the winter of 11945-46. Four Club meetings will be held, thl\ ladies to be invited ,to St. Andrew''S Night and the final meeting id March, a concert. The Club has adopted a revised Constitution. Federation and Ayrshire Association business is in the hands of experienced representatives, and in every respect the barometer in / - Kilmarnock is "'set at fair." .. *• BURNS CLUB NOTES 53 In June of 1942 the Club sufiered a serious loss by the death of Lieut.-Col. Yuille, T.D., who acted as hon. secretary and treasurer for over 25 years. Apart from peing the main spring of Club ~rganisation, Col. Yuille was a most interest ing and happy personality, a "man whom it was good to know I' W. Y. HAGGO, 'Hon. Secg. \ . , 15 :/BELFAST BURNS ASSOOIATIbject. Other meetings were as follows :- D.944-Nov. 4. " Scottish humour," by Rev. Prof. A. F ,1,1 Scott Pearson, D. Th., . D .Litt. 25. Recital of lesser-known Scottish songs : " programme arranged by William Magill. Dec. 16. " J. M. Barrie," by James R. Brown,.M.A., B.Sc. 11.945-Jan. 6. Q.uiz : arranged by George Roddick. " 25. Annual Dinner: "The Immortal Memory" proposed by J. Falconer, M.A. Feb. 10. Display of folk dancing by Belfast Scottish Country Dance Society. . Mar. ·10. Debate. " 24. Annual General Meeting. A whist drive was also held on 21st April, the proceeds of which were allocated to the Memorial Bed Fund. • ' The Summer Excursion to Bangor on lOth June wa1 enjoyed by members and friends. The membership is now increased to 349. N. Baooxs, lion. Secg. •' I BURNS CLUB NOTES 68: SANDYFO~D (GLASGOW) BURNS CLUB' Marked progress in the affairs of the Club was made under the Presidency'of Mr. ,Arch. H. Smith, F.L.A.A. Membership- was increased an~ finances were improved. I Where all enjoyed the principal event of the Club's 7ear the Anniversary Dinner held in the Grosvenor Restaurant on, 20th January 1945-the success of the evening must have- 1brought exhilaration of a personal triumph to the heart and ' mind of the President. '.l'.he list of distinguiahed speakers who proposed or responded to the various toast& 1fought· forth an attendance restricted only by limitations imposed by the caterers and in·no measure equal to the applications rece\ved for tickets. • · · \ Tb,e toast " The Immortal Memory of Robert Burns " waa. proposed by the Rt. Hon. Lord McGowan, K.B.E., LL.D., a worthy Son of Glasgow now risen to eminence in the indus trial life of the nation. From a brief eketch of the early life of the Poet the speaker passed to a reference to his outstand ing works, revealing.a sense of prophecy which was almost uncanny. That the philosophy of Burns had not been with out its value was made abundantly clear in the comprehensive medical services plan-to which the Government was com mitted, and by other steps being taken now to improve social conditions. " Some years ago, in New York, I accepted the invitation of the late Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan to visit his wonderful 1 library," he said. " There, in a small room-the holy ot holies-jealously guarded, I held in my hands a manuscript of ' Scots Wha Hae.' I am not ashamed to confess how moved I was when I read the actual handwriting of our great poet and thought of what h,ad inspired this work-inten&& love of country.'' When Germany and Japan were crushed and military tyranny eliminated, everything possible must be done t0o formulate the better conditions which our sacrifices richly dese~, and to create a .better world, in which, there would be freedom to live our lives, free4om of thought and its expression, and freedom of religion. " What our people want," he said, " is employment, their own homes, good food at reasonable prices, and, when out of work through no fault of their own and when ill, reasonable subsistence allowances." There was excuse for a word about the Government's social security plan in the fact that Burns himself had blazed a trait in, human sympathy. " The past five and a half years have !lhown what this country is capable of doing. We have seen science linked with / BURNS CLUB NOTES industry as never before, with amazing results, and this must continue. A human sympathy has emerged from the sacrifices we have all mttde, and a greater desire that each should help the other." While the poems of Burns were widely :r:ead to-day, \ every effort should be made to see that their message was under stood and appreciated, especially by the rising generation. " I have no doubt," concluded Lord McGowan, " we ;mall finish the evening by singing 'Auld Lang Syne '-a i;\)ng which will be sung wherever Scotsmen congregate to celebrate the anniversary of ,the poet's birthday, and which will btim them in resolve not· only to perpetuate the memory of a great Scotsman but to see that his prophecies come to fruition.P Other. speakers were Major Thomas Bl'ackburn, p.B.E.; Daniel Duncan, J.P., Deacon-Convener; Joseph AUisoni J.P.~ C.A.; Miss Kate Harrower, M.B., Ch.B. (Glasgow) .i and James Hay. · T'b.e Appeal for Benevolence, again submitted by Mr. Peter Ferguson, J.P., Past-President, brought forth a record response of £;100., for equal distribution between the Club's Benevolent Fund and the Jean Armour Burns Houses, Mauch- line. . At the Annual Generb.l Meeting held in M~rch Mr. W. Sloan Smith ~as appointed President. With the termination of hostilities the Directors hope te> engage in a fuller programzn..e of activities during the coming session. \ s. w. LOVE, Hon. Secy. 89: S11NDERLAND BURNS OLUB We have again been able, in spi.1.1 of the restrictions still in forcie, to continue our meetings. Our President, Mr. J. Somerville, with b,is good\ lady •and the h"elp of the Ladies' Commi'ttee, has don~. an excellent piece of work. The Hallowe'en Party was a great' success. We are indebted to the various speakers who have provided us with excellent papers during the session. • O:q the morning of 25th January we met in the Hall of the Central Library, when the President placed a wreath on the bust of Burns. The company was much larger than usual, and it was an added pleasure to have a class of senior boys and. girls, together with their teachers, present at the ceremony. In the evening we held our first war-time Dinner, ln • \ .... .56 BURNS CLUB NOTES Messrs'. Meng's Restaurant, when a company of eighty-six ladies and gentlemen were present, the President of the Club presiding. The Rev. Hector Ross, M.A., in proposing "rhe Im.mortal Memory," paid a yery fine tribute to the Bard and expressed the hope that before another 25th came round Victory would come to our arms and that Peace would once more reign o'er all the world. ,An excellent musical pro gramme was sustained by Doris Baldwin, Elsie Wetherell, ' J a~k Peacock, and Leslie Milburn, with Elsie Snowdon as accompanist. ~ IM. NEILSON, - Hon. Secy. 153 : SCOTTISH BURNS CLUB, GLASGOW I' th' hinner-en o' th' eecond World War, th' Cronies "O' th' Scottish Club cairried ocit gey an' near their fu' Ongauns. Th' Richt Honourable Tom Johnston, M.P., Secreta.r o' State for Scotland, propos_ed " rh' Immortal Memory " tae an unco wheen o' ower fower hunner an' fifty Cronies, their lasses\ an' ither frien's. He 'was.,thank:it by Lord Provost Welsh o' Glesca. Albert D. Mackie (" Macnib " o' journa listic. ken) peyed .honour tae oor Lassies. Mrs. "Charlotte I R. McNee, Director o'· th' Army Study Circle, Edina, spak in reply. Sheriff· Prin9ipal S1.r Archibald Black, O.:ij.E., , K.C., welcomed oor Guests, an' Professor John Glaister, M.D., D.S.C.,' responded. · ., Mony ither kenspeckle~hiels w&l kenned in Army, N.aval, Air-Force an' Civic .Circles gaither'd roun Presas Jamie Adair. Amang them were Admin:l Troupe, Brigadier-General Hobart, Group-Captain Parsons an' Maister Malcolm McCulloch, Chief Constable o' th' toon A penny-siller o' Fift~ pounds was gaither'd for th' Jean Armour Burns ,H6uses o' Mb.uchlipe. Ither Nichts were spent harkenin;-tae Dr. John Srewart <>' Manchuria on " Japan's ' New Order "; Miss Isobel Sinclair, th' journalistic· lass, on " Stop Press " ; Jamie Smith on " Aberdeen Stories, an' their Origin an' Examples "; an' Major Guy Lloyd, Parlamentar for East Renfrew on " My Job in Parliament." Amang th' wheen o' Artistes throughoot tl;l' Session were th' Misses Minnie Thomson, Isol5el Davidson, an' Lizzie Downes, Mrs. Adair, Mrs. R. J. Scott, Maisters C~rlie Anderson, J. Gordon Clark, Nelson L. Morkill, Alec. XcGregor, Jimmy Stoddart, Leonard Bain, John H . • I BURNS CLUB . NQTES 57 • Robertson, Alec. Main, Jimmy Mearns, Ian Audsley, Cronie Pianist R. E ... Paterson, L, T .C.L., an' th' Glesca Polis Con cert Pairty. A Token o' Guidwill was gaen tae J. Kevan McDowall, Secretar o' th' Clp.b, founded by his faither ower forty year syne. Cronie W. D. Cocker rea'd an Ode o' Honour, includin' " For five an twenty years ye've been Oor worthy Secretar an' freen'." Th' Scottish Cronies ance mair gaed muckle support tae th' " Chronicle " wi' an' order for sax dizzen an' a'. They 1 still baud th' McLennan Boolin' Tassie. Preses Adair has bookit forth' 1946 " Immortal Memory" nae less a boddie than the United States Ambassador tae Britain, Maister J. G. Winant. Aye, we're luikin forrit wi gleg anticipation tae harken tae oor kizzen frae ower-seas. J. KEv AN MoDow ALL, Secretar 181 : PRIMROSE BURNS OLUB During the war years 11939-1945 the Club contributed handsomely to Burns fund& and war charities as under :- Jean Armour Houses, Mauchline, £130 0 0 Burns Federation (Various), 8 8 0 British Red Cross Society, 27 7 0 British Sailors Society, 1155 0 0 .£320 15 0 G. CALDERWOOD, Treasurer 199 : NEWBATTLE AND DISTRIOT BURNS OLUB We have again t9 report a very successful session under the chairmanship of Mr. Robert Knight. Our membership shows a !!light increas~ on last year, the number at present being 186, and interest was m&intained throughout the session. Mr. George Humphrey, in proposing the principal toast at the Anniversary Dinner, tried an innovation whic\ proved very successful and entertaining : his speech was illust.rated by song and recitation, and was greatly enjoyed by all. '!'he attendance was around 170. llS BUJ,:t.NS CLUB NOTES The old folks new number 246, and they had their usual XDt.alil Dinner.and gift, and also a return to the summer drive. This took place in July, and most of the credit goes to Mr. Humphrey f~r his efforts in securing the neceBSary permit for the buses .. 'I'he drive was to Aberlady, where a fine tea was served by our Ladies' Committee in the Church Hall. There- · aftel'. the old folks joined. in an impromptu concert, and -·everyone voted it a grand outing. All in, it took over .£300. The School Children's EBBay Competition again proved a Tery keenly contested afiair, marks up to 96 to 98 per cent~ being the winners. '!'he prizes were presented by Mrs. Rosa at a social held for that purpose. 1ROBERT MoCATmil, · Secretary 209: GREENOOK ST. JOHN'S BURNS OLUB Sgllabus 1946-1946 1945-Sep. 20. " Old Greenock," by J. B. Scrymgeour. ' Oct. 111. Ladies' Night: Concert Party, Kincaid'& Orchestra, John Campbell. Nov. 8. Lecture : '' Opening James Watt Dock,'' by W. Willia:QJBon. 29. Festival of St. Andrew, ·by Rev. J. L. Dow, " M.A. Dec. 20. Lecture by T. W. Hamilton, F.E.I.C. 1946-Jan. 10. Ladies' Night: Concert Party, William Brown. 24. Anniversary : " _The Immortal Memory " by " John Lynn. Feb. 7. Ladies' Night: Concert Party, John ' Chalmers. 211. Lecture by W. L. Morren, M.A. Mar." 7. Ladies' Night: Concert Party, R. Falconer.~ •a 21. Lecture : '' Humou'r in the School Room,'' by J. B. Law, M.A. Apl. 4. Annual General Meeting. JOHN CAMPBELL, Hon. Secg. 275 : AYR BURNS OLUB Dujng the past year the ·Club has maintained the usual activities. _ .. A record number of ladies and gentlemen lilat down to dinner on 25th January at Belleisle House, when the custom- BURNS CLUB NOTES ary commemorative toast was given by the Rt. Hon. Thoma& Johnston, Sacretary of State for Scotland. Mr. John Neill, the President, introduced to the company Captain McGregor of the American Forces, who had trav~lled from the South of England specially to attend a Burns celebratfon, and brought greetings from his own Club (St. Louis, U.S.A.). Captain McGregor delighted the company with . several Burns songs, and his interpretation of " Scots wha hae " was faultless even to the m6st critical of the Scottish dialect. The Club has also during the year achieved its aim of raising the sum undertaken by it in the purchase 'of th& Tam o' Shanter Inn, and great credit is due to ex-Bailie D. J~ Willison and Mr. Norman McKinnon, C.A., the Honorary Secretary and the Honorary Treasurer respectively. JOHN NEILL, President 477: BELLAHOUSTON (GLASGOW) BURNS CLUB Syllabus 1945-1946 '1945--0ot. 18. " The Scotland of Robert Burns," by Baili& John S. Clarke, J.P. ltlov. 15. " Something about a soldier," by Captain. P. Durand, F.S.A.Scot. Dec. 20. Whist Drive. 1946-Jan. 24. '' The Immortal Memory '' by ~homas Beet.: Feb. 21. " Our place names," by 1J. Kevan McDowall, F.S.A.Sc;ot. . Var. 21. "Burns Country by lhhelight," by R. D. Wellwood, M.P.S. Apl. 118. Business meeting. ROBERT s. FRAME, Seeretaf"!/ 550 : DUNOON MARY CAMPBELL BURNS CLlUJ Syllabus 1944-1946 1944--0ct. 9. Election of Office-bearers. " 26. Questionnaire on Burns, by Kenneth Bruce. Nov. 22. " A nicht wi' the lasses." Dec. 28. Business Meeting. 19415-Jan. 22. " The Immortal Memory " by Thoma& . Goudie. Feb. 21>. Harmony night. Mar. 24. Closing social. D. McLAREN, SeC'l'etary BURNS·" CLUB NOTES 581 :'OUYBERNAULD AND DISTRICT BURNS OLUB On 21st March 11945 we gave a social evenint to the aged pensioners o( the ~illage; there were over 1120 old people, who sat down to tea and heard a concert given by some well-known artistes. On the first Sunday in August we had a dHve round the Burns Country, visiting the MaucJhline Houses, " Poosie Nancy's," and the Burns Memorial. w. FERGUS, I Secretary ' 610: " ROYAL AROH " B~S OLUB, PARKHEAD, GLA.SGOW The Club held its first regular meeting on H>th March 11945. Councillor Alexander Burnett (Glasgow Corporation) I gave us a very ~ interesting and learned oration on Ro'bert Burns. Prospects tor 1945-46 are very favourable. GEORGE J. BARR, ·Hon. Secy. BURNS~s FIRST LETTER TO " CLARINDA "' The Librarian o.f the National Library of Scotland (Dr. Henry W. Meikle) writes to say that the folio v0lume !Gf· autograP.h letters mentioned on page 3 of last year's Bwrm Olw I ,, . MOTTO-" A MAN'S A MAN FOR A THAT " THE BURNS FED·!RATION INSTITUTED I 88 5 Hon. Presidents. Sir ALEXANDER GIBB, G.B.E., C.B., LL.D.(Edin.), F.R.S., Queen Anne's Lodge, Westminster, Londo.a, S.W.I. WILLIAM WILL, C.B.E., 85 Fleet Street, London, E.C.4. ROBERT GRAHAM of Fintry, 6 Park Close, Eastbou;ne, Sussex. Brevet-Colonel T. C. DUNLOP, A.D.C., T.D., D.L., Doonside, Alloway, • Ayr. '. Sir ROBERT BRUCE, D.L., LL.D., Brisbane House, 9 Rowan Road, Glasgow, S.l. THOMAS AMOS, M.A, 19 Glebe Road, Kilmarnock. DUNCAN MAclNNEs, Station B, Box 9, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A. ALEXANDER G., McKNIGHT,' 321 Providence Building, Duluth, Minnesota; U.S.A. WILLIAM: GRANT, M.A., LL.D., Training Centre, St. Andrew Street, .Aberdeen. J. C. EwING, 8 Royal Terrace, Glasgow, C.3. WM. C. CocKBURN, Holmwood, Uddingston. WILLIAM A. WEIR, 5 The Bressels, Winnipeg, Manitoba., Canada M. H. McKER&oW, F.S.A.Scot., 4~ Buccleuch S~reet, Dumfries. Hon. Vice-Presidents. J. 'EAYLOR GIBB, F.S.A.Scot., Mauchline. , ANDREW M'CALLUM, 33 Hillside Road, Glasgow, S.3. JAMES McMu&no, 85-7'1144th Street, Jamaica., N.Y., U.S.A. RICHARD DouGLAs, 1 Wall Street, New York, N.Y., U.S.A. JOHN R. FOTHERINGHAM, Orwell, Bent Road, Hamilton. GEORGE HUMPHREY, The Saughs, N ewtongrange, Midlothian. • I Lt.-Col. P. FLEMING Gow, D.S.O., I.M.S. (retired), 3 .A".rgyle Street, Maryfield, Dundee. 1 ,. CHA:RLES CARMICHAEL. 54 Chatsworth Street, Derby. ALEXANDER EMSLIE, M.A., 5 Royal Avenue, Belfast JOHN CURRIE, 20 Arboretum Street, Nottingham. •WILLIAM HAMILTON, Dunbar Street, Stockton, N.S.W. THE BURNS FEDERATION BXEOUTIVE COMMITTEE. President-JOHN S. CLARKE, J.P., 2 Walmer Crescent, Glasgow, • S.W.1. Paat-Preai,d,en,t-M. H. McKERRow, F.S.A.Scot., 43 Buccleuch Street, Dumfries. Vice-Pre&Uienta-Sir PATRICK J. DoLLAN. D.L., LL.D., J.P., 1 _l\:ingsley Avenue, Glasgow, S.2. THOMAS B. GOUDIE, Ewanrigg, Burnbank, Hamilton. Hon. Secretary-JOHN McVIi!:, 13 Hillside Crescent, Edinburgh,' 7. Hon. Treasurer-JAKES MACINTYRE, 17 New Road, Mauchline. Hon. Editor, "B'Ulr'IUI Ohronicle"·-J. C. EWING, 8 Itoyal Terrace, Glasi;row, C.3. Hon. Secretary of School Oompetitiona-FRED. J. BELFORD, M.A., F.E.I.S., 3 Park Gi;ove, Liberton, Edin I burgh, 9 . ..4.Blistant Hon. Secretary-WILLIAM BLACK, Cardean, Eastfield Road, ' Dumfries. • 1 Distrift Representativea. · I . .Ayrshire-J.' KEvAN MoDowALL, F.S.A.Scot., 115 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, C.2. • . THOMAS FINDLAY, Learia;, Maucbline. ' · JOHN NEILL, Bruaich, High Corton, Ayr. II. Edinburgh-JOHN W. OLIVER, M.A., D.Litt., Ramsay Cottage, West Barnton Terrace, Edinburgh. III. Gkugow-WM. C. CooKBURN, Holmwood, Uddingston. / THOM.\S BEET, 16 Ardbeg Street, Glasgow, S.2. ANDREW STENHOUSE, LL.B., 28 Bat'h. Street, Glasgow, C.2. ' IV. Dumbarton and .Argyll Shires-WM. BoYLE, 22 Osborne Street, · Clydebank. · V~ Jilifeahire-T. C. ANDERSON, Rowan Cottage, Main Street, Kelty, Fife. Provost D. THOMSON KENNEDY, 1 Douglas Street, Dunfermline. · VI. Lanarlc8hire-JoHN R. FoTHERINGH .•u.r, Orwell, Bent Road, Hamilton. THOMAS CRANEy6 Douglas Street, High Blantyre. JOHN H.A.PPLE, 4 Graham Avenue, EddlewQOd, Hamilton. ' JAMES B. MATHEW, 23 Loanhead Crescent,· N ewarthill, by Motherwell. · VII. Mid and East Lothiana and Border.a-ALEXANDER.PRINGLE, 14 Wellington Street, Hawick. JAMES Ju'NER. 2 Greenhall Crescent, Gorebridge. '.\71II. Weat Lothian-PA.TRICK GLEN, 41 Torphichen Street, Bathgate. IX. Renfrewahire-Ex-Provost J. M. ADAM, J.P., Cove Point House, Cove Road, Gourock. \ WILLIAM L. MoRREN, M.A., 37a Union Street, c Greenock. X. Stirling, Olachmannan and West Perth Shirea-JAMES P. CRAWFORD, 68 Port Street, Stirling. XI. East Perthshire and .Angua-Lt.-Col. P. FLEMING Gow, t D.S.O., I.M.S. (retired), 3 Argyle Street, Maryfield, · Dundee. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 63 " XII. Northern Scottiah Counties-ALEXANDER EMSLIE, M.A., 5 Royal Avenue, Belfast. XIII. So'Uthern Scottish Counties-JAMES DENNISTON, F.E.I.S., Mossgiel, Cardoness Street, Dumfries. XIV. London and South-Eastern England-JoHN M. SwAN, 17 Roxborough Park, Harrow, Middlesex. XV. North-Eastern England-J. RENWICK VICiqERS, Belvoir, St. Bedes, East Boldon, Co. Durb.am. XVI. North- W9atern England-DANIEL WRIGHT, Qua.tre Bras, St. Andrews Road, Bebington, Cheshire. XVII. Midlands of England-JOHN CURRIE, 20 Arboretulll S\reet, N ottingha.m. ' W. G. McGREGOR, 49 Nether Edge Road, Sheffield, I 7. XVIII. South- W<1&tern England-GEORGE HUMPHREY, The Saughs,. N ewtongrange, Midlothian. XIX. Wales-HECTOR . McKELVIE, 3 Glanmor Road, Uplands, · Swansea. XX. Ireland-A. M'SAVENY, 4 Wellington Park Avenue, Belfast. XXI. South Africa-DONALD F. MACNAIR, 103 Fotheringay Road, Glasgow, S.l. XXII. Auatralia-T. ATHOLL RoBERTSoN, F.R.G.S., F.S.A.Scot., Inveratholl, Alderman's Hill, Palmers Green, London, N.13 · XXIII. New Zealand-Mrs. M. THO'MSON, 21 Gilbertfield Road, Cambuslang. XXIV. Canada-JAMES ADAIR, 22 Newark Drive, Glasgow, S.l. XXV. .India-ARTHUR McKERRow, Polmood, Biggar. :xµrv1. U.S. .A.-HERBERT C. RBID, 1396 Fairbanks Avenue, S.W., Atlanta, Ga.., U.S.A. JOHN R. Hurry, 9271 Neff Road RR. No. 1, Clio, Mich., U.S.A. ALEXANDER M. BucHAN, 535 Dielman Road, St. Louis County, Missouri, U.S.A. XXVII. Near .East-HUGH M: MACINTYRE, Elmsley, 7 Racecourse· Road, Ayr. XXVIII. China-WM. C. FAULDS, J.P., F.S.I., 367 London Road, Glasgow, S.E. SUB-COMMITTEES. Finance: Messrs. Cockburn ( Co'li'IJener), M'Dowall, M. H. McKerrow, Humphrey, and Macnair. Memorials: Messrs. Clarke · (C'omiener), Black, Boyle, Findlay, Mathews, and Neill. Scottiah Literature;. Messrs. Dollan (Con'IJener), Belford, Ewing, Faulds, Fotheringham, Glen, McDowall, and Morren. lb Schools: Messrs. Belford (Con'IJener), Black, Denniston, Glen, Humphrey, Morren, Oliver and Stenhouse ; Co-opted members : .J. Douglas Cairns, M.A., and :i;>ewar A. Robb, M.A. AUDITOBB. WILLIAll A. GOLD, Wallacethorn, Riccarton, Kilmarnock. GEORGE BROWN, M.A., Dunard, 52 Witch Road, Kilmarnock. 64 THE BURN8 FEDERATION CONSTITUTION AND RULES. Name. 1. The Association shall be called "The Burns Federatioq," with headquarters at Kilmarnock. Objects. 2. The objects of the Federation shall be (a) To strengthen and consolidate, by universal affiliation, , " the bond of fellowship amongst the members of Bums Clubs and kindred Societies. / (b) To purchase and preserve manuscripts and other_ relics associated with Robert Burns. (Gifts of 'relics shall be reported by the Hon. Secretary at the next meeting of the Executive Committee following thereon.) • (c) To mark with suitable inscriptions, repair, or renew buildings, tombstones, etc., interesting from their association with Robert Burns. d) To encourage institutiolll! and movements in honour of Robert Burns. ( e) To encourage \and arrange _School Children's Com petitions in order to stimulate the teaching and study of Scottish histo~, literature, art and music. ( f) To encourage the development of Scottish lit,rature, art and music. Membership. 3. (a) The Federation shall consist of affiliated Clubs and . Societies. Bums Clubs and kindred Societies may be admitted to the Federation by the Executive Committe!j on application in writing to the Hon. Secretary, enclosing a copy of their Constitu tion' and List of Office-bearers. Such applications shall be con sidered by the Executive Committ~ at its next meeting. (b) Clubs shall be grouped mto Districts as shown in the subjoined Schedule, but Clubs on the borders of Districts shall have the tjght to elect to which District they wish to belong. :-:• ·. (c) Ladies or gentlemen who have rendered conspicuous service to the BuQls Movement may be elected by the Council · to the position of Honorary President or Honorary Vice-President, on the recommendation of the Executive .Committee. Council. 4. The Council shall consist of the Hon. Presidents, the Hon. Vice-Presidents, the Executive Committee, the Auditors, and three members elected by each Club. CONSTITUTION AND RULES 65 Conference of the Cowncil. 5. (a) The Annual Conference of the Council shall be held, at such place as may be arranged, on the second Saturday of September, when the Annual Reports shall be submitted and Office-bearers for the ensuing year elected. (b) Clubs outwith the United Kingdom may be represented by proxy at the Conference. (c) Nominations for Offices shall he made by the Executive Committee or by Clubs. (d) Nominations of Office-bearers, Intimations of election of District representative members, and Notices of motion shall be lodged in writing with the Hon. Secretary not later than the second Saturday of June. (e) The Agenda of the Conference and the Annual Reports shall be issued to Clubs by the Hon. Secretary not less than one month before the Conference. (f) No alteration shall be made in the "Constitution and Rules" except at the Conference of the Council, and then only by a two-thirds' majority of those voting. Executive Committee. 6. (a) The Executive Committee shall consist of (1) President, Imrriediate Past-President, two Vice-Pre sidents, Hon. Secretary, Hon. Treasurer, Hon. Editor of the Burns Chronicle, Hon. Secretary of School Children's Competitions, Assistant Hon. Secretary ; and (2) Representative members elected by Districts, as shown in the subjoined Schedule. (b) The Office-bearers shall retire annually, and shall be eligible for re-election. (c) District representative members shall be elected annually by all Districts on the basis of one member for the first five Clubs, and one member for every additional ten Clubs, in each District; but for Edinburgh, London, Wales, Ireland, and Overseas Districts, one Club in each shall qualify for admission as a District. No District shall have more than one member unless the number of itFJ Clubs exceeds fourteen. If a District fail to elect a representative member, the Executive Com mittee shall have power to fill the vacancy. Meetings of the Executive Committee. 7. (a) The Executive Committee shall conduct the business of the Federation, and shall meet on the third Saturdays of October, E THE BURNS FEDERATION December, March and June, and when called by the Hon. Secretary. The place of each meeting shall be fixed at the previous meeting. (b) The Hon. Secretary shall give at least one week's notice of meetings, along with the Agenda. (c) Notices of motion and other business to appear in the .Agenda should reach the Hon. Secretary at least a fortnight before the meeting. (d) Special meetings may be held on a written request to the Hon. Secretary signed by not fewer than ten members of the Committee and stating the business to be considered. (e) Ten shall form a quorum at meetings. (f} The President, the Vice-Presidents, the Hon. Secretary, lmd the Hon. Treasurer shall be ex o:fficiis members of all Standing Sub-Committees. Subscriptions. 8. (a) Each Club, on admission to the Federation, shall pay a registration fee of One guinea, in addition to the annual subscription, which shall be One pound, ten shillings. (b) Clubs in arrear with their subscriptions shall not be ·entitled to be represented at ~he annual Conference of the Council. (c) Clubs failing to pay their subscriptions for two con secutive years may be struck off the roll of the Federation. Finance. 9. (a) The Sub-Committee on Finance shall consist of five members of the Executive Committee, three to form a quorum. (b) No accounts shall be paid without the authority of the Finance Committee, which shall submit the Minutes of its meetings to the quarterly meetings of the Executive Committee. (c) The Bank Account shall be kept in the name of the Federation, and shall be operated by the Hon. Treasurer for the time being. Deposit Receipts shall be taken out in the name -0f the Federation, to be drawn on the endorsement of the President, the Hon. Secretary, and the Hon. Treasurer, or any two of them. Ho1wrary Secretary. 10. The Hon. Secretary shall keep the Minute Book of the Federation, in which shall be recorded the proceedings of all meetings. He shall also conduct the correspondence of the Federation, convene all meetings, and issue Diplomas. He shall prepare the Executive Committee's Report on the year's transactions, for submission to the Conference of the Council. CONSTITUTION AND RULES 67 ' Honorary Treasurer. 11. The Hon. Treasurer shall have charge of all monies paid to the Federation, and shall pay all accounts authorised by the Finance Committee. He shall prepare a statement of his accounts for the year to 3lstJuly, which shall be audited by two Auditors, who shall be appointed annually at the Conference of the Council, and who shall not be members of the Executive Committee. "Burns Chronicle." 12. (a) The Bwrns Chronicle shall be an official publication of the Federation, and shall be published annually, not later than lst January. It shall contain a Directory of the Clubs on the roll of the Federation, reports of the transactions of the Federation and of affiliated Clubs during the previous year, and such literary matter and illustrations as may be decided by the Hon. Editor. (b) The Hon. Editor shall be responsible for the publication of the Bwrm Chronicle, and shall submit annually a report on the sale of the latest issue. Estimates for the printing of the Burns Chronicle and other publications of the Federation shall be approved by the Finance Committee. (c) The published price of the Burns Chronicle shall be fixed by the Executive Committee. School Children's Competitions. 13. The Hon. Secretary of School Children's Competitions shall give assistance to affiliated Clubs in the organisation of their Com petitions, and shall endeavour to co-ordinate the efforts of the various Clubs. He shall submit annually a report on the Com petitions organised by the Clubs. BenefitA. 114. (a) Each Club, on affiliation, shall be supplied gratis with the Diploma of Membership of the Federation. (b) Members of affiliated Clubs shall be entitled to receive a Pocket Diploma on payment of One shilling. (c) Affiliated Clubs shall be supplied gratis with five copies of the Burns Chronicle apd with copies of newspapers containing reports of meetings, demonstrations, etc., organ ised, conducted, or attended by the Federation. (d} Members of affiliated Clubs shall be entitled to be supplied, through the Secretaries of their respective Clubs, with copies of all works published by the Federation, at such discount as may be fixed by ~he Executive Committee. LIST OF DISTRICTS (See Article No. 6c of "Oomtitution ") I. Ayrshire. II. Edinburgh. III. Glasgow. IV. Dumbarton, Argyll, and Bute Shires. v. Fifeshire. VI. Lanarkshire. Vil. Lothians (Mid and East) and Borders. VIII. Lothian (West). IX. Renfrewshire. x. Stirling, Clackmannan, and West Perth Shires. XI. East Perthshire and Angus. XII. Northern Scottish Counties. XIII. Southern Scottish Counties. XIV. London and South-Eastern England. Essex, Hertford, Middlesex, Berks, Buckingham, Oxford, Hampshire, Surrey, Sussex, Kent. xv. North-Eastern England. Northumberland, Durham, York&hire (except Sheffield, Rotherham, Doncaster) XVI. North-Western England. Cumberland, Westmorland, Lancashire, Cheshire XVI!. Midlands of England. Derby, Nottingham, Lincoln, South Yorkshire, Leicester, Rutland Stafford, Shropshire, Worcester, Warwick, North ampton, Cambridge, Huntingdon, Bedford, Norfolk, Suffolk XVIII. South-Western England. Hereford, Gloucester, Wilts, Somerset, Dorset. Devon, Cornwall, Monmouth XIX. Wales. xx. Ireland. XXI. South Africa. XXII. Australia. XXIII. New Zealand. XXIV. Canada. xxv. India. XXVI. United States of America XXVII. Near East. XXVIII. China. LIST OF DISTRICTS 69 I. Ayl'Shil'e-28 Clubs : 3 Membel's. 0 Kilmarnock. 377 Kilbirnie Rosebery. 35 Dalry. 435 Ayr Tam o' Shanter. 45 Cumnock. 456 Troon Masonic. 56 Muirkirk Lapraik. 500 New Cumnock. 173 Irvine. 564 Ochiltree Winsome Willie. 192 Ayrshire B.C.Assoc. 568 Darvel. 252 Alloway. 573 Croft Springside. 256 Newton-on-Ayr. 591 Lugar Water 27 4 Troon. 592 Ben what. 275 Ayr. 593 Barrmill. 288 Beith Caledonia. 596 Glaisnock. 310 Mauchline. 605 Craigmark and Burnton. 365 Catrine. 608 Riccarton Wallace. 369 Maybole St. Crispin's. 609 Seaforth Highlanders. Secretar!J : John M. Irving, 20 Melville Street, Kilmarnock. II. Edinbul'gh-9 Clubs : 1 Membel'. 22 Edinburgh. 307 Edin burgh Ayrshire Assoc. 124 Ninety. 314 Edinburgh Scottish. 212 Portobello. 341 Leith. 293 New Craighall. 378 Edinburgh B.C.Assoc. 398 Colinton. Secretary: Fred. J. Belford, M.A., 3 Park Grove, Liberton, Edinburgh, 9. III. Glasgow-27 Clubs : 3 Membel's. 3 Tam o' Shanter. 153 Scottish. 7 Thistle. 169 Glasgow B.C.Assoc. 9 Royalty. 181 Primrose. 33 Haggis. 213 Kingston. 34 Carrick. 263 Masonic. 36 Rosebery. 282 Glasgow Bowling Assoc. 49 Bridgeton. 295 Burns House. 53 Govan Fairfield. 477 Bellahouston. 68 Sandyford. 484 Sheddens Ladies. 74 National Burns Memorial 581 Cumbernauld. Cottage Homes. 5R5 Queen's Park Clarinda. 91 Shettleston. 587 Budhill and Springboig. 135 Partick Western. 610 Royal Arch, Parkhead. 139 National. 612 Torrance Ma.sonic. Secretar!J: Andrew Stenhouse, LL.B., 28 Bath Street, Glasgow, C.2. 70 THE BURNS FEDERATION IV. Dumbarton, Argyll, and Bute Shlres-8 Clubs: 1 Member. 2 Alexandria. 244 Dalmuir. 10 Dumbarton. 421 Arrochar and Tarbet. 75 Kirn. 550 Dunoon Mary Campbell. 225 Helensburgh. 581 Cumbrae. Secretar'!I: Wm. C.;Cockburn, Holmwood, Uddingston. V. Fifeshlre-20 Clubs: 2 Members. 62 Cupar. 452 Auchterderran Bonnie Jean. 85 Dunfermline. 457 Kinglassie Ladies. 184 Blairadam. 459 Cowdenbeath West End Cowdenbeath Tam o' 250 Jolly Beggars. Shanter. 262 Fife B.C.Assoc. 478 Kelty and Blairadam Bonnie 283 Sinclairtown. Doon Ladies. 326 Bingry Ladies. 486 Jean Armour, Steelend. 330 Glencraig "Bonnie Jean." 496 Auld Hoose, Burntisland. 345 Denbeath. 508 Auchterderran. 350 Markinch. 402 High Valleyfield Highland 554 Bruce, Falkland. Mary Ladies. 583 Lochgelly Pipe Band. Secretary: T. 0. Anderson, Rowan Cottage, Main Street, Kelty, Fife. VI. La,uarkshire-see next page. VII. Mid and East Lothlans and Borders-20 Clubs : 2 Members. 96 Jedburgh. 414 Dalkeith Fountain. 108 East Oalder. 427 Gorebridge Glencairn. 198 Gorebridge Jolly Beggars. 442 Penicuik. 199 New battle and District. 4 75 Tweeddale Ladies. 239 Hawick. 516 The Airts, Prestonpans. 319 Fisherrow Masonic. 552 Fawside, Tranent. 338 Dalkeith and District. 600 Millerhill. 346 Oakbank Mossgiel. 602 Cockenzie Thorntree. 384 Pumpherston Bonnie Doon. 603 The Tower. 400 Haddington. 613 Traneut No. 1. Secretar'!I: James Juner, 2 Greenhall Crescent, Gorebridge. LIST OF DIS1'RICT8 71 VI. Lanukshire-43 Clubs: 4 lllembers. 20 Airdrie. 468 High Blantyre. 100 Hamilton Mossgiel. 494 Motherwell United Services. 121 Hamilton Junior. 505 Wishaw Masonic. 133 Newarthill. 506 Dykehead Jean Armour. 152 Hamilton. 509 Motherwell Masonic. 157 Baillieston. 520 Uddingston Lochlie Ladies. 207 Cambuslang Wingate. 522 Glenlee. 237 Uddingston Masonic. 526 DyKehead Tam o' Shanter. 266 Newton Jolly Beggars. 529 William Mitchell. 348 Newton Bonnie Jean. 533 Fauldhouse. 356 Burnbank Masonic. 537 Harthill. 372 Baillieston Jean Armour. 542 Newarthill White Heather. 387 Mary Campbell (Cambus· 546 Oak, Hamilton. lang). 549 Bothwell Bonie Lesley 388 Kyle (Shotts) Ladies. Ladies. 390 Meikle Earnock Jolly 5'74 Holytown Blair Athole. Beggars. 577 Dalserf and Clydesdale. 392 Whiffl.et. 578 Lanarkshire 13.C.A. 424 CambuslangTam o' Shanter 595 Allan ton Brig o' Doon 428 Chryston. Ladies. 441 Temple, Shotts. 598 Forth Jolly Beggars. 466 Dykehead Afton Water 599 Larkhall Raploch. Ladies. 604 Bellshill No. 1. 467 Gilbertfield Highland Mary 614 Bellshill Caledonian. Ladies. Secretary: Mrs. M. ThomsQn, 21 Gilbertfield Road, Cambuslang VIII. West Lothian-10 Clubs: 1 Member. 125 Blackburn on Almond. 579 Bathgate Tam o' Shanter. 160 Whitburn. 588 Atlas Tam o' Shanter 429 Bathgate J oily Beggars. (Arma.dale). 432 Winchburgh. 607 Hadrian. 4:71 Rose of Grange (Bo'ness). 611 Blackridge. 615 West Lothian B.C.A. Secretary: P. Glen, 41 Torphichen Street, Bathgate. 72 THE BURNS FEDERATION IX. Renfloewshlre-17 Clubs: 2 Members. 21 Greenock. 431 Inverkip. 48 Paisley. 472 Renfrewshire B.C.A. 59 Gourock Jolly Beggars. 524 Cronies, Paisley. 161 Paisley Charleston. 538 Greenock & Disti·ict 190 Port-Glasgow. P.P. Assoc. 209 Greenock St. John's. 540 Johnstone Masonic. 254 Greenock Victoria. 567 Paisley Newtown. 383 Greenock Heather. 576 Fort Matilda. 430 Gourock. 586 Ba.rrhead. Secretar'!I: Arthur C. E. Lewis, Vallorbe, Rodney Road, Gourock. x. Stirling, Claekmannan, and West Perth Shlres- 19 Clubs: 2 Members. 4 Callander. 409 Stenhousemuir and District 37 Dollar. 426 Sauchie. 50 Stirling. 469 Denny Cross. 126 Falkirk. 503 Dunblane. 218 Bannockburn. 510 Scottish Dyes. 292 Gra.hamston. 541 Doune. 352 Grangemouth. 543 Abbey Craig. 380 Falkirk Cross Keys. 558 Cambusbarron. 399 St. Ringans. 582 Higginsneuk. 590 Craigs Cronies. Secretary: Thomas R. Corrie, 36 Upper Craigs, Stirling. XI. East Pe~hshlPe and Angus-7 Clubs: 1 Member. 14 Dundee. 76 Brechin. 26 Perth. 82 Arbroath. 44 Forfar. 242 Montrose. 327 Perth St. Mark's. 8e1Jretar'!I: George Cumming, J.P., Lindsay Lane, Brechin. LIST OF DIS'l'RICTS 73 XII. Nol'thern Scottish Counties-7 Clubs: 1 Member. 40 Aberdeen. 367 Dornoch. 149 Elgin. 403. Fraserburgh. 336 Peterhead. 458 Stonehaven. 470 St. Giles (Elgin). Secretary: Frank Robertson, 6 Upper Kirkgate, AberdeFn· XIII. Southel'n Scottish Counties-12 Clubs: 1 Member. 112 Dumfries Howff. 437 Dumfries Ladies. 217 Eskdale. 4 79 Queen of the South Ladies. 226 Dumfries. 530 Southern Scottish Counties 309 Annan. B.C.A. 323 Kirkcudbright. 536 Whithorn. 393 Annan Ladies. 589 Solway. 616 Kirkconnel and Sanquhar. Secretary : William Black, Cardean, Eastfield Road, Dumfries. XIV. London and South-Eastel'n England-4 Clubs: 1 Member. 1 ~urns Club of London. 570 Scottish Clans Assoc. of 481 London Ayrshire Society. London. 492 Harrow Cal. Soc. Seeretary: John M. Swan, 17 Roxborough Park, Harrow, Middlesex. XV. Nol'th-Eastem England-11 Clubs: 1 Membel'. 89 Sunderland. 531 Tees-side Cal. Soc. 156 Newcastle. 534 Bedlington. 158 Darlington. 544 Ashington.. 165 Wallsend-on-Tyne. 548 Leeds Cal. Soc. 379 Hartlepools. 551 Scarborough Cal. Soc. 555 Harrogate St. Andrew's Soc. Secretary: Matthew Neilson, 14 Percy Terrace, Sunderland. XVI. North-Western England-7 Clubs: 1 Member. 71 Carlisle. 366 Liverpool. 236 Whitehaven. 417 Burnley and District. 363 Barrow, St. Andrew's 436 Walney Jolly Beggars Society. Ladies. · 572 Chester Cal. Assoc. Secretar'!I: Miss Florence M. M'Leod, Rowanhill, 34 Childwall Mount Road, Liverpool, 16. THE BURNS FEDERATION XVII. Midlands of England-18 Clubs: 8 Members. 17 Nottingham. 454 Rotherham. 55 Derby. 461 Leicester Cal. Soc. 167 Birmingham. 528 Loughborough Scottish Soc. 296 Walsall. 553 Wolverhampton Cal. Soc. 329 Newark and District. 556 Doncaster Cal. Soc. 405 Sheffield Cal. Soc. 559 Coventry Cal. Soc. 418 Skegness. 563 Norfolk Cal. Soc. 438 Chesterfield Cal. Soc. 584 Corby. 445 Buxton Cal. Soc. 606 Rockingham. Secretary: John Currie, 20 Arboretum Street, Nottingham. XVIII. South-Western England-5 Clubs: 1 Membe:r. 120 Bristol. 480 Falmouth. 446 Herefordshire. 535 Plymouth & District Cal. 462 Cheltenham Scottish Soc. Soo. Secretary: F. W. Whitehead, Alt>ion Chambers, Bristol. XIX. Wales-1 Club: 1 Member. 444 Swansea and West Wales. XX. Ireland-3 Clubs: 1 Member. 15 Belfast. 183 Londonderry. 406 Dublin St. Andrew's Soc. Secretary : George Roddick, Avondale House, Ballyclare, Co. Antrim, Nothern Ireland. XXI. South Afriea-1 Club: 1 Member. 373 Red Hill, Natal. XXII. Australla-7 Clubs: 1 Member. 324 Stockton. 523 Highland Society of N.S. W 511 Perth. 532 Cessnock. 521 Waratah-Mayfield. 545 Parramatta. 566 Scottish Soc. and Burns Club of Australia. XXIII. New Zealand-2 Clubs: 1 Member. 449 Wellington. 497 St. Andrew (Wellington). LIST OF DISTRICTS 75 XXIV. Canada-12 Clubs: 1 Member. 25 WinnipegSt.Andrew'sSoc. 476 Border Cities (Ont.) 19i Winnipeg. 501 Galt (Ont.) 303 Victoria (B.C.) St. 513 Fredericton St. Andrew's Andrew's Soc. Soc. 305 New Waterford. 561 London (Ontario). 325 Vancouver Fellowship(B.C.) 571 Edmonton. 443 Burns Club of Victoria 575 Windsor (Ont.) Jean (B.C.) Armour. XXV. India-2 Clubs: 1 Member. 355 Calcutta. 560 Cawnpore Cal. Soc. XXVI. U.S.A.-26 Clubs: 3 Members. 171 Chattanooga. 413 San Francisco St. Andrew s 208 Colorado Springs. Soc. 220 St. Louis. 453 Philadelphia Ladies' 238 Atlanta. Auxiliary. 271 Trenton. 464 Yakima Valley. 278 Clan Stewart. 493 Akron. 284 Philadelphia. 498 Flint. 320 Troy. 507 Orange County. 331 Buffalo. 518 Ye Auld Cronies, Ohio. 354 Royal Order of Scottish 525 Flint Jolly Beggars. Clans. 1 557 Atlanta Ladies. 375 Holyoke. 565 Robert Burns Circle of New 381 Greater New York Masonic York. 391 Waterbury. 594 Cuyahoga County. 412 Gary. 597 New York City. Secretary : James H. Ba."tter, 21 Bleecker Avenue, Troy, N.Y, U.S.A. XXVII. Neu East-3 Clubs: 1 Member. 495 Baghdad Cal. Soc. 515 Abadan Cal. Soc. 601 Palestine Cal. Soc. XXVIII. China-1 Club: 1 Member 514 Shanghai. 76 THE BURNS FEDERATION LIST OF PAST-PltESIDENTS. 1885-1899 : Provost Peter Sturrock, Kilmarnock. 1899-1906 : Provost David Mackay, Kilmarnock. 1906-1907 : David Mur.ray, M.A., B.Sc., Kilmarnock. 1908-1909 : William Wallace, M.A., LL.D., Glasgow. 1909-1910 : Captain David Sneddon, V.D., Kilmarnock. 1910-1923 : Duncan M'Naught, LL.D., Kilmaurs. 1923-1927 : Sir Robert Bruce, D.L., LL.D., Glasgow. 1927-1930 : Sir Joseph Dobbie, S.S.C., Edinburgh. 1930-1933 : Sir Alexander Gibb, G.B.E., C.B., London. 1933-1937 : Ninian Macwhannell, F.R.I.B.A., Glasgow. 1937-1943 : M. H. McKerrow, F.S.A.Scot., Dumfries. List of places at which the Annual Conference of the Council has been held. 1885-93 Kilmarnock. 1915-19 Glasgow. 1894 Glasgow. 1920 London. 1895 Dundee. 1921 Dunfermline. 1896 Kilmarnock. 1922 Birmingham. 1897 Greenock. - 1923 Ayr. 1898 Mauchline. 1924 Dumfries. 1899 Dumfries. 1925 Edinburgh. 1900 Kilmarnock. 1926 Perth. 1901 Glasgow. 1927 Derby. 1902 Greenock. 1928 Aberdeen. 1903 Edinburgh. 1929 Troon. 1904 Stirling. 1930 Greenock. 1905 Hamilton. 1931 Hawick. 1906 Kilmarnock. 1932 Stirling. 1907 Sunderland. 1933 London. 1908 St. Andrews. 1934 Glasgow. 1909 Dunfermline. 1935 Ayr and Kilmarnock. 1910 Lanark. 1936 Elgin. 1911 Glasgow. 1937 Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1912 Carlisle. 1938 Dumfries. 1913 Galashiels. 1940-45 Glasgow. The Council did.not meet in 1914 and in 1939. MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE COUNCIL Faculty Hall, St. George's Place, Glasgow, 8th September, 1945. 'fhe Annual Confere:nce of the Council of the Burns Federation was held here today at 3 p.m. The President, Mr. John S. Clarke, J.P., occupied the chair, and was supported on the platform by the other office-bearers. Apologies for absence were intimated from the Lord Provost of 'Glasgow, and Messrs. Oharles Carmichael, J. C. Ewing, John M. Swan, T. Atholl Robertson, John Taylor Gibb, and Thomas Findlay. Fraternal Greetings and messages of congratulation on tJh& Federation's diamond jubilee were read from the Calcutta Burns Clup, the Bur:ns Club of London, the Association of Scottish Societie11 in London, the Burns Clubs of Australia. and Harrow and District Caledonian Society. Mr. J. Renwick Vickers conveyed the co:ngratulations of the Clubs in North-East England. On the s:uggestion of Mr. Alexander Emslie, Belfast, it was agreed to send a message to Mr. J. C. Ewing, editor of the Burns Chronicle, congratulating him on his recovery so far from his ill:ness and tlxpressing the hope that ·he would soon be able to be out among his 'f.i'ederation colleagues again. The following 99 clubs were represented by 230 delegates : No. 0, Kilmarnock; No. 2, Alexandria; No. 10, Dumbarton; No. 15, Belfast; No. 17, Nottingham Scottish A'3Sociation; No. 21, Greenock; No. 36, Rosebery, Glasgow; No. 48, Paisley; No. 49, Bridgeton; No. 50, Stirling; No. 53, Govan Fairfield; No. 68, Sandyford, Glasgow; No. 89, Sunderland; No. 91, Shettleston; No. 100, Hamilton Mossgiel; No. 112, Burns Howff, Dumfries; No. 124, Ninety, Edinburgh; No. 153, Scottish, Glasgow; No. 156, Newca.stle and Tyneside; No. 167, Birmingham Scottish; No. 169, Glasgow B.C.A.;. No. [173, Irvine; No. 181, Primrose, Glasgow; No. 184, Blair adam Shanter; No. 192, Ayrshire B.C.A.; No. 198, Gore bridge Jolly Beggars; No. 199, Newbattle; No. 209, GrPenock St. John's; No. 218, Bannockburn Empire; No. 226, Dum fries; No. 237, Uddingston Masonic; No. 239, Hawick;: 78 MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE No. 252, Alloway; No. 256, Newton-on-Ayr; No. 262, Fife shire B.C.A.; No. 263, Glasgow Masonic; No. 274, Troon; No. 275, Ayr; No. 293, Newcraighall; No. 295, Burns HoUBe Club, Ltd., Glasgow; No. 307, Edinburgh Ayrshire Associa tion; No. 309, An;nan; No. 310, Mauchline; No. 314, Scottish, Edinburgh; No. 355, Calcutta; No. 356, Burnbank Masonic; No. 366, Liverpool; No. 372, Bailliesto;n Jean Armour; No. 373, Red Hill, Natal; No. 377, Kilbirnie; No. 378, Edin burgh B.C.A.; No. 380, Falkirk Crose Keys; No. ;183, Greenock R.N.T.F. Heather; No.. 387, Ca.mbuslang Mary Campbell; No. 388, Kyle Ladies; No. 390, Meikle Earnock; No. 398, Colinton; No. 402, Highland Mary Ladies, High Valleyfield; No. 405, Sheffield Caledonian Society; No. 429, Bathgate Jolly Beggars; No. 437, Dumfries Ladies No. 1; No. 438, Chesterfield Caledonian .Association; No. 441, Temple; No. 466, Dykehead Afton Water Ladies; No. 467, Gilbertfield Highland Mary Ladies; No. 468, High Blantyre; No. 471, Rose of Grange, Bo'ness; No. 472, Renfrewshire B.C.A.; No. 477, Bellahouston; No. 479, Queen of the South Ladies; No. 484, S!heddens Ladies; No. 520, Lochlie Ladies, Uddingston; No. 526, Dykehead Tam o' Shanter: No. 530, Southern Scottish Counties Association; No. 538, Greenock P .P. Association; No. 542, Newarthill White Heather; No. 546, The Oak, Hamilton; No. 558, Cambusbarron; No. 567, Paisley Newtown; No. 576, Fort Matilda; No. 578, Lanarkshire B.C.A.; No. 580, Cumbrae; No. 581, Cumbernauld; No. 582, Higginsneuk; No. 584, Corby; No. 585, Queen's Park Clarinda; No. 587, Bud'hill and Springboig; No. 588, Atlas Tam o' Shanter, Armadale; No. 593, Barrmill Jolly Beggars; No. 596, Glaisnock, Cum nock; No. 598, Forth Jolly Beggars; No. 599, Larkhall Raploch; No. 600, Millerhill; No. 603, The Tower. 'J'ranent; No. 604, Bellshill No. 1; No. 605, Craigmark ancl Burnton; No. 606, Rockingham; No. 607, Hadrian, Bo'n~ss; and No. 611, Blackridge. The President having welcomed the delegates, the Minutes of last year's Conference (as printed on pp. 63-77 of the 1945 Burm Chtrom'.cle) were held as read and were approved. HON. SECRETARY'S ANNUAL REPORT. Tlhe Ho;n. Secretary's annual report was in the following terms:- It is a coincidence, but a /fortunate one, that the first Conference of the Council to be held after the victory of the Allied Nations in Europe, should take place in the Diamond Jubilee Year of the Federation. The double event calls for a MINUTES OF TH.m ANNUAL CONFERENCE 79 celebration, and arrangements have been made for this imm1t diately after the meeting of the Council. The successful contributions of Burns Clubs to the war effort, particularly to war charities, during the past six years, constitutes a record of which the Burns Federation may well be proud. Many Clubs were forced to close down on account of bombing in their area, or of having their halls , requisitioned. Others were depleted through their members joining the Forces-in one Club only the Secretary was left but the remaining qubs with more elderly members have carried on and kept the Federation flag flying. With the return to more normal conditions, it is expected that the ensuing year will see the dormant Clubs coming back to life again. They will be restored to full membership on payment of a re-affiliation fee of one guinea-all arrears of subscription being wiped out-and they will retain their 01 iginal i;c11ition on the Roll of the Yederation We record with regret the deaths of Mr. A. A. Craig, Atlanta, for many years one of the Representatives for U.S.A. on the Executive Committee; Mr. John Buchan, J.P., President of Red Hill Burns Club, Natal; and Mr. James Brown, a founder member and for several years President of Newbattle and District Burns Club. MEMBBRSHIP During the year the following fifteen Clubs were affiliated :- Larkhall Raploch Burns Club. Millerhill Burns Club. Caledonian Society of Palestine. Cockenzie Thorntree Burns Club. The Tower Burns Club, Tranent. BellshiU Burns Club, No. 1. Craigmark and Burnton Burns Club. Rockingham Burns Club. Hadrian Burns Club, Bo'nei.~. Riccarton Wallace Burns Club. Seaforth Highlanders Association (Ayrshire Branch) Burns Club. The Royal Arch Burns Club, Parkhead. Blackridge, Westrigg and District Burns Club. Torrance Masonic Social and Burns Club. Tranent No. 11 Burns Club. No. 365 Catrina Burns Club and No. 338 Dalkeith and District Burns Club were re-affiliated. 80 MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE Last year there was a record number of 321 Pocket diplomas issued. This year that number has been more than doubled. 652 Pocket Diplomas have been issued. In many Clubs it has become the practice to present them to new members on admission, which accounts for the increasing popularity of the Diplomas. MEMORIALS At the 194:1 Conference it was suggested that suitable finger posts should be erected, directing the visitor to the farm of Mount Oliphant. In view of the Direction Signs Order 1940 no action could be taken, but as this Order has now been revoked, the Executive Committee have now had the sign posts erected. Alexander Findlater's Memorial, erected by the Sandyford Burns Club in 1923 in Anderston burying-ground, North Street, Glasgow, has been considerably damaged and the Memorials Committee are taking steps to have the damage repaired. They are also attending to the painting of the railings leading to the Highland Mary Memorial at Failford. " BUBNS CHRONICLE " Volume XX. of the Second Series of the Bwrns Chronicle was published in January last and there has been a record number of copies sold. The Index to the Second Series of the Chronicle has also been published and to mark the Diamond Jubilee year of the Federation, the Executive Committee have presented a copy of this Index and the Index to the 34 volumes of the First Series to all Clubs in full membership. At the March meeting of ·the Executive Committee the President, on behalf of the Federation, presented Mr. J. C. Ewing with a handsome cheque as a token of its esteem and gratitude for the outstanding services he had rendered to the Federation and particularly as Editor of the Burns Chronicle for the past twenty years. SCOTTIIJH NATION.AL DICTION.ARY The Federation's League of Donors continues to give support towards the production of the Scottish National Dictionary both by contributions and by securing new sub scribers. Since last Conference £208 has been contributed, making a total of £11387 to the end of June last. When the contributions of a Club accumulate to £20 they MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE 81 are converted into a subscription and the Club becomes entitled to a copy of the Dictionary volumes as they are published. Several Clubs have arranged to subscribe for a copy of the Dictionary in this way and to present it to their local school, if it has not already been supplied with a copy. Muirkirk Lapraik Burns Club is to be congratulated on being the first federated Club to do so. 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE POETS DBATH In connection with the commemoration of the 150th Anniversary of the Poet's death, which occurs on 2lst July 11946, the Executive Committee have considered a provisional programme suggested by the Southern Scottish Counties Burns Association, which will include the following:- Saturday, 20th JUly- 3 p.m. Procession from Municipal Chambers, Buccleuch Street, Dumfries, to the Statue of the Poet in Burns Square, and thence to the Mausoleum in St. Michael's Churchyard. 7 p.m. Reception of Delegates by Provost and Magis trates of Dumfries. Swnday, 2Ist luty- 11 a.m. Commemoration Service in St. Michael's Church. 2.30 p.m. Visit to Ellisland. 7.30 p.m. Public Concert in Lyceum T_heatre, Dumfries. The programme is submitted and recommended for the general approval of the Council. SCOTTISH LITEBA.TUBE JN SCHOOLS In pursuance of one of the Federation's main objects-the encouragement of the study of Scottish history, literature, art and music-local competitions in schools have been pro moted by Clubs in various parts of the country for many years and with ever increasing success. It was therefore with confidence that the Federation, to mark its Diamond Jubilee, inaugurated this year a national competition in Scottish literature. The scheme had the approval of the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Scottish Education Department, and the Report of the Hon. Secretary, School Competitions, shows that it has met with outstanding success, over 60,000 pupils from schools ranging F 82 MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE from Ross and Cromarty to Wigto.wnshire taking part as compared with 19,000 last year. The Scheme for the 1946 Competition has already been issued to schools through their Directors of Education. The Hon. Secretary, in presenting the report, commented on the very satisfactory result of the Federation's first natfonal school competition in Scottish Literature. The Rector of a secondary school, writing to a Director of Educa tion, said that the Burns Federation, by helping to dispel the prevalent ignorance about Scottish literature, was " performing a service of incalculable va.lue." Many other -equally eulogistic comments had been made about tlhe com petition by educationists. From the numerous inquiries about the competition already received from all parts of the country the Council were confident that this year's entry would be greater than last year'lf· Referring to the Federation's 60 year's record, Mr. McVie said it was a record of which they might well be proud, bµt he also thouglht it was a challenge, and a challenge which they of the Ftideration to-day must take up : they must see that they handed over to those coming after them as rich a legacy of useful achieve ment as had been handed down to them. .., On the motion of the President, seconded by Mr. J. B. • Bodie, Scottish Burns Club, the report was adopted. THE MAUCHLINE HOMES The President took the opportunity of appealing to delegates to do all they could when they returned to their -respective Clubs and districts to raise money for the National Burn;1 Memorial Cottage Homes and the Jean Armour Bµrns Houses at Mauchline. The Cottage Homes lhad been initiated in 1896 by the Glasgow-Ma.uchline Society, and for over half .a century they had been a source of blessing to worthy qld people. They of the Federation were particularly interested in the Jean Armour Houses where nine old ladies lived in ·comfort and happiness. He asked delegates to do their best to rake in money to keep these two benefactions on tJheir feet. FINANCIAL REPORT Mr. J amea Macintyre, hon. treasurer, in submitting the 'financial statement, said it was particularly appropriate that in this jubilee year the treasurer should for the fin:;t time in the history of the Federation be able to intimate that the income bad exceeded £1000. He would ask Scottish MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE 83 cb1bs to give more attention to the Dictionary. They must see to it that Dr. Grant's great 'enterprise was not hampered .by lack of funds. The total income for the year, inclusive of the amount carried forward, was £1629. After all expenees had been met they :finished with a balance of £608, which was £109 more than ttley had last year. Altogether he thought the Federation's finaJlcial position was very healthy. On the motion of Mr. W. C. Cockburn, Glasgow, seconded ·by Mr. William Reid, Ayr, the report was adopted. The iinancial,.Statement is printed on pp. 95-97. " BURNS CHRONICLE " REPORT . The 'adoption of the Report on the Burns Chroni'cle was moved by Sir Patrick Dollan, who said the Burns Chro·nicle had now reached a circulation of 2800, which was an increase of 684 copies from last year. The aim of the committee was to make the circulation a minimum of 10,000. If every federated club would take 30 copies that would enable ttlem to reach their aim. As the circulation increased so did the value of their advertising space. They hoped that the paper I control would come off next year and that they wo:uld be able to increase the" size of the Chronicle. They also lhad the iJltention, as the school competitions grew, to publish a more popular journal-an anwal Scottish magazine which would give members overseas some guidance on the literary and artistic movements in Scotland. We have one grouse, said Sir Patrick, against both the previous Government and the present one. We have tried several times to get a relaxation • of paper control in order to get more paper for reprinting \ the poems of Robert Burns. It is impossible to-day to get a full copy of the poems of Burns in any place in Great Britain. I think it is a scandalous reflection on the Govern ment that it has refused to make a special concession for the reprinting of these poems, for Robert Burns was the I first man to outline the basic principles now containerl in the national and international legislative proposals of the Allied Nations. The Report was unanimously approved. Mr. Emslie suggested that it might be wise for the Execu tive to consider appointing someone to assist Mr. Ewing in the editorship of the Burns Chronicle, and Mr. Dewar A. Robb, Greenock, supported the suggestion. Sir Patrick Dollan said this matter had been under consideration for some years, an'd if it had not· befln for "the continuance of paper control the Executive might have 84' MINUTES 0.1!' THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE submitted proposals about it that day. As soon as the paper control was relaxed they would bring forward proposals. The Report is printed on pp. 911-92. SCHOOL COMPETITIONS Mr. Belford, in submitting his report, said it was a happy coincidence that the diamond jubilee of the Federation should occur in the same year as the first national competition. The competitors were drawn from almost all parts of Scotland .. He thought they must regard the children's competition ¥ the most important filling the Federation was doiI~ at the moment. If they could get all the children above seven years of age to enter for these competitions they would be laying a very sound .foundation for the study of Scottish literature. 1'he eompetitions did not take in only the poems of Burns but covered tJhe whole field of Scottish literature, and he had had many gratifying letters from headmasters who praised the soundness of the examination questions and especially praised the paper set for the senior secondary pupils. Sixty six per ce;nt. of all the Education Authorities in Scotland came into the scheme in 1945, and they hoped that that number would be exceeded in 1946. Mr. Belford thanked those clubs which, year after year, had tun their own com petitiors; many others had now merged their competitions in the national one, but he did :ri>t wish it to be thought that the Federation wanted tJhe national scheme to destroy any local efforts ma AMENDMENTS TO CONSTITUTION \ The following amendments to the Constitution _of the Federation, recommended by the Executive Committee, were unanimously approved on the motion of the Presirlent :- (1) That the words " Assistant Hon. Secretary " be added in Rule 6 (a) (1). (2) That in Rule 10 the words " (with, if decided· to be necessary, the aiA;istance of a Minute (Clerk) " be deleted. 1 (3) That the following be added to Rule 3 : " Clubs shall be grouped into Districts as shown in the subjoined MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE 85 Schedule, bµt Clubs on the borders of Districts shall have the right to elect to which District they wislh,to belong." ELECTION OF OFFICE-BEARERS The following were appointed hon. vice-presidents: :Messrs. Charles Carmichael, Derby; Alex. Emsl~e, M.A., Belfast; John ·Currie, Nottingham; Wm. Hamilton, secretary of Stockton Burns Club, New South Wales. On the motion of Sir Patrick Dollan, seci>nded by Mr. 'Tihomas B. Goudie, Hamilton, Mr. John S. Clarke, J.P., was re-elected president. Sir Patrick Dollan and Mr. Thomas B. Goudie were elected ..-ice-presidenta, and the secretary, treasurer, editor, secretary NEXT ANNUAL CONFERENCE On the President's suggestion, it wa.s agreed to leave the fixing of a place for the next Conference in the hands of the Mecµtive Committee. The Conference concluded with a vote of thanks to the President, moved by Mr. John Currie, Nottingham. JOHN McVrn, Hon. Secretary. DIAMOND JUBILEE OF THE BURNS FEDERATION 'rhe first post-war Annual Conference of tihe Council of the Federation, which was held in Glasgow on Saturday, 8th September, occurred in the year of the Federation's Diamond Jubilee and tihe occasion was fittin~y celebrated. Prior to thto Conference the Lord Provost of Glasgow, Mr. James Welsh, entertained the Executive to luncheon in the City Chambers, and in tihe evening the Conference delegates and their lady friends attended the Diamond Jubilee Dinner, the arrangementR for which were carried through by the Glasgow and District Burns Association. 86 MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE AT THE CITY CHAMBERS The Lord Provost, wearing his chain of office, presided over a company of 50 at the luncheon ir.. the City Chambers, and was accompanied at the top ts'ble by Mr. John S. Clarke, J.P., President of the B:urns Federation, and other office bearers. The excellen~ cuisine and the pleasant surroundings combined to make the luncheon a very delightful affair. The Lord Provost said it fell to him as Lord Provost to exten~ to th~ pr~sent a ~ea~ty welcome to the city o~ the occasion of tlie diamond Jubilee of tJhe Burns Federation. That was an outstanding event in the history of the Federa tion, keeping i:n view the fact that next year they would celebrate the 150th anniversary of the poet's death. He had been interested to see a facsimile copy of the Federation's first minute in that day's issue of the " Kilmarnock Standard," and lb.e was pleased to notioo that at the first meeting of the 'Burns Federation, held on 17th July, 1885, there was actually present one representative from the city of Glasgow. He was Mr. A. J. Symington, who was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Naval Architects, and he lived in Langside. It was pleasant to think that at that historic meeting the city in which tJhey now were was represented, and it had continued to be represented and had taken a lively interest in the affairs of the Federation ever since. After a reference to the difficulties of the war years, the Lord Provost said he had ;no doubt that in the years ahead there would be a lively and more s:ustained interest not only in tJhe poet Burne but in the Federation which had done so much to spread his fame. He was interested in the w~ the Federation was doing in connection with the schools. He thought that was a work that was full of great possibilities- that they should get children interested at an early stag,.e in the poetry of Robert Burns. He lb.ad to con~ratulatel the Federation on its work in that direction and hoped it would continue along these lines. It was important that interest should be maintained and developed not only in the poetry of Burns but in the poetry of the period through which we were passing. In these hard commercial times there was a tendency for tJhe poetic not to get its proper place in the affairs of the world. The Federation was doing something fo counteract that tendency and in doing so was adding to the cultural element that went to the making of this civilisa tion of ours. On behalf of the city of Glasgow he gave the Burns Federation a hearty welcome. Mr. John S. Clarke; on behalf of the Federation, warmly thanked tihe Lord Provost for his generous and hospitable MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE 87 welcome. Continuing, the president of the Federation spoke of the warm and clooe associations which the city of Glasgow had with Robert Burns. The very spot where they were sitting was once the site of the town house of the Alexanders of Rallochmyle, and tJhere in 1843 the Bonny Lass o' Balloch myle, then an old lady of 90 years, breathed her last. 'fhey knew of five visits which Robert Burns had paid to Glasgow. He usually stayed at the Black Bull, which stood at the corner of Virginia Street. Round the corner there was a huge tenement called Horne's Land. A man called M'Indoe had !his residence there, and there was record of Burns having bough~ material for a dress from him. It seemed probable that it was the material for Jean Armour's wedding dress. One of the most famous documents connected with Robert Burns-was the autobiographicai letter he wrote to Dr. Moore- who was the father of General Sir John Moore, who died at Corunna. He lived in Dunlop Street, whfoh was then a beautiful street of stately villas and mansion-houses. Mr. Clarke referred briefly to some of the activities of the Burns Federation during the past sixty years. These were wider in scope than most people realised. Th~ Lord Provost, for iJ).Stance, had been surprised to hear that the Chair of Scottish History and Literature in Glasgow University owed its existence to tJbe Burns Federation. In conclusion Mr. Clarke said it was the spirit of brotherhood which permeated the work of Burns which they tried to cultivate. Until we got that necessary change of heart, politics wo:uld accomplish µothing. As the Archbishop of Canterbury had said the other day, '' You have nothing to fear from science; you have something to fear from the· hearts of men." We had had six years of unmitigated evil through one nation's forgetting what should bind all nations together-and tJhat. was the real, vital gospel of Robert Burns. DIAMOND JUBILEE DINNER A company of 300 ladies and gentlemen attended the public dinner which was held in Cranston's Rooms, Royal Exchange, beginning at 5 o'clock. A three-course dinner, followed by coffee, was served. Mr. John S. Clarke presided and proposed the loyal toast. To the Rt. Hon. Tlhomas Johnston, late Secretary of State for Scotland, .had been entrusted the toast of " The Burns Federation." Sixty years ago, said Mr. Johnston, the first meeting of the Federation of Burns Clubs and Societies was held. Appropriately enoµglh, the inauguration of the Great Federation had b6?n prop~d by the Kilmarnock Burns Club. It was appropriate that in 88 MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE the place where the " Kilmarnock edition " was· printed the Federation itself should be born. Now the Federation had world-wide ramifications. There were Clubs in Iraq, Palestine, India, and a large number in the U.S.A., and in the Dominions overseas. Tlhat night they were celebrating the diamond jubilee of the Federation. He thought it was seven years after the birth of the Federation that the Bwrns Clvromcle was started, and ever since then in its 53 or 54 volumes we had had careful documentation and a careful winnowing out of the tr:uth about Robert Burns, about Ibis times, his life and his poetry. Not o:nly have we this great collection of Burnsiana in the Chronicle, said Mr. Johnston, but for the first time in our history we have an organised attempt at preserving the dialect of our forebears and Scottish literature. The Federation had helped to preserve the dialect and speech forms of our ance!'ltors. Before the Federation was inaugurated the torch had been carried on by Burns Clubs at their annual suppers and dinners, where there were various aRcriptions to Burns of poetry he never wrote. They need not1 however, unduly look down their noses at these old Burns clubs, for they carried on Scottish tradi tions and speech ~orms when more responsible orgnpisations were busily engaged in sellin~ the pass. They had to thank the Burns Federation for the great dhange that had come over the Scots tongue, the Scots dialect, and Scots ,literature, in t,he past half-century. It had exercised a very happy influence on the Committee for the Training of Teachers, where there was now a much greater emphasis on the study of Scots in tJhe curricula for the· teaching profession. The Federation first proposed and to a very large extent promoted and built :up the necessary funds and enthusiasm for the Chair of Scottish Hi.story at Glasgow University. But, above all, it was to the credit of the Federation that it stepped in at a critical moment and saved the great effort of Dr. Grant, in building up the Scottish National Dictionary, from possible financial defeat. It had been a struggle to ensure the preservatiou of t.he Scofa dialect. There had been in recent years many inflpences driving it from the scene. The cinema, Hollywood with its American slang, were rapidly affecting the speech form of our generation, and for a time it looked as if it were a struggle between Grant and McVie on the one side and Rolly "IVood on the other, but now they hoped to see that Grant and McVie would win. . "W~ believe," Mr. Johnston added, "we !have some thing to contribute to the world as an organised entity, and MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE 811 that the world will lose something if Scotland becomes a region or a mere postal district. We are happy to know that we have in our land a11 organisation built up, noµrished, firmly fixed, which is determined to preserve our la.ng,age and our literature, preserve the Burns tradition, preserve the. glories of his song, preserve the stories of !his life so that we can hand them down to those who come after us." The Pre.sident, in replying to the toast of '' The Burns Federation," referred to the F'ederation's philanthropic work. In the Jean .Armour Burns Houses, Mauchline, lived nine old ladies; the •Federation gave each a cottage in which they could live rent-free and rates-free, and a pension of £5 a year. One of the old ladies lived in the cottage in which Jean and Robert set up !housekeeping. Contin:uing, Mr. Clarke Raid he believed the l!'ederation was destined to carry on a great work in tlhe future. He appealed to them to further the interests of the Federation, for its interests were those of mankind. · Mr. W. D. Cocker, the well-known Scottish poet, in pro posing the tout of " Scottish Literature," said that Scottish literature did not begin and end with Robert Burns. Burns was a star in our literary firmament, but he was one of a constellation-a particularly bright constellation that had shone· for many centuries, and would shine for many centuries to come. In proportion to its population Scotland lb.ad pro duced more poets, authors, and men of letters than any other part of the English-speaking world. In every branch of aµthorship you fou:nd Scotsmen at the top of the tree. Mr. Cocker briefly traced the history of Scottish literature from the days of the old makars to modern times. Looking back a.cross the centuries, lhe concluded, one could take justifiable pride in Scotland's liter~ry achievements and look forward with hope and confidence to the future. The land that had brought forth these great writers in the past would ;not be inarticulate in the days .to come. Mr. J. M. Reid, editor of "The Bulletin," in replying to the toast, said he would not go so far as to say tlhat they had a very lively and active Scottish literature just now, but they had something. If people were interested in one of the geniuses of the past, the most famous of Scottish writers, might they not be inclined in reading modern works to set a standard rather higher t.lhan was reasonable 1 Yo:u could not expect to have supreme geniuses writing all the time. You could not expect that in any country, and especially you could not expect it in a comparatively small country. He thought we had a very much better living literature in. Scotland than we deserved. We had a large number of very 90 MINUTES 01!' THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE able people writing in Scotland to-day and who were obviously writing with their eye on a Scottish audience, ·and that was something we had not previously had for many generations. But/writers were like everybody else; they had to live; they wou d live on very little if they got a little encouragement. What they could not do was to go on giving "Hterature to people who were not prepared to take an intere11t in it. That was one of the problems we were facing in Scotland. We had the writers, but we had not got the readers. The Burns Federation could do a great deal to ma~ the living Scottish literature great and more alive if its mi:imbers were to buy and read the books of living Scottish writers, or at least to read the books without buying them ; they could provide what the writers of Scotland to-day needed more than anything else-an audience which was really interested in them and prepared to discuss them. ' Sir Patrick Dollan, in proposing thanks to all who had ~aken part in the proceedings, referred to Mr. Reid's remarks, and said that if Scottish writers would not look down their noses so much at the Burns Federation they would get more appreciation t'1.an they did at present. He woJild suggest that the first thing they should do was to join the Burns Club in the district in which they lived. So long 11.11 Scottish writers were thinking of London publishing houses and not of the Scottish public they would never get the circulation and the appreciation ifuey expected. There were delightful musical interludes in the round of speeches. Mr. Alexander M'Gregor, baritone, gave ~nsi tive renderings of "A man's a man" and "Afton Water"; Mrs. Isabel Adair, soprano, sang " The Lea Rig " very sweetly, and the two singers delighted with their duet, " 0 wert thou in the cauld blast." Mr. M'Gregor ai1110 gave a. spirited rendering of " Duncan Gray " with vocal obligato by the company. Mr. R. E. Paterson played the pianoforte accompaniments in musicianly style. Variety was given to the programme by a clever display of conjJiring and card juggling by Mr. Nelson Lyford. Tlhe communal singing of "Auld Lang Syne " brought a very pleasant function to a close. As the guests retired a collection was taken in aid of the Jean Armour Burne Roust¥ at Mauchline. ANNUAL REPORTS . " BURNS CHRONICLE " Federated Clubs claimed 2, 728 copies of the twentieth issue of the Burm Chronicle, published in January last. .That is an increase of 642 on the figures for the preceding year, and is the largest number taken by the Clubs in any one year since the establishment of the annual in 11892. Copies purchased by individua.Is, the trade, or public and university libraries numbered 66; making a grand total of nearly 2,800. Special mention should be made of the Mauchline Club's purchase of 200 copies of the twentieth volume-the largest single order ever received for the publication. The Clubs mentioned in the following list purchased the number of copies attached to their names. The Convener of the Sub-Committee on Scottish Literature (Sir Patrick J~ Dollan) continues his most practical interest on the business side of the publication. Mauchline Club • ..200 copies Calcutta Club 117 " Scottish Club (Glasgow) 81 " Belfast Association - 70 " Edinburgh Ayrshire Association 65 " Flint (Michigan) Club - 62 " Bridgeton (Glasgow) Club 55 " Sandyford (Glasgow) Club 55 " Dumfries Club - 1>5 " Greenock Club - 53 " .Atlanta (Georgia) Club - 53 " Queen of the South Ladies' Club 43 " Gourpck Jolly Beggars' Club - 41 " Newbattle and District Club 41 " Cumbrae Club - 35 " Lugar Water Club - 33 " Kilbirnie Rosebery Club - 30 " Ayr Club - 29 " Greenock St. John's Club 25 " Leith Club - 25 " Dykehead Tam o' Shanter Club 25 " Cumbernauld and District Club 25 " Port Glasgo~ Club - 24 " • 92 " BURNS CHRONICLE" Glaisnock Club - 24 copies. Falkirk Cross Keys Club 23 " Winsome Willie Club, Ochiltree 23 " Atlas Tam o' Shanter Club 23 " Newton-on-Ayr Club - 21 " Burns Club of London 20 ,, Rosebery Club, Glasgow 20 ,,, Carlisle Club 20 " London (Ontario) Club - 20 " Barrmill Jolly Beggars Club 20 " Kilmarnock Club 18 " Sunderland Club 18 " Troy Club - 18- ,, Dumfries Ladies' No. 1 Club 18 Edinburgh Club 17 ,, Liverpool Club - 17 " Bellahouston (Glasgow) Club - 17 " Scottish Society of Australia 17 Fort Matilda Club - 17 " Millerhill Club - 16 " Tam o' Shanter Club, Glasgow 15 " Stirling Club - "' 15 ",, Dumfries Bums Howff Club - 15 Gorebridge Twenty-five Jolly Beggars' Club - 15 " Glasgow Masonic Club - 15 New York Burns Society - 15 " " J. C. EwING, Hon. Editor. GLASGOW, 3'1st July, 1945. SCHOOL COMPETITIONS This year the School Competitions in Sc9ttish Literature were held on a national basis an!f copies of the scheme were sent to all Directors of Education in Scotland. Examination papers were asked for by 22 Education Committees and 331 schools entered for· the Competition. From the subjoined table it will be seen how popular the study of Scottish litera ture has been and from letters received from head teachers and teachers of English it was evident that the pupils tackl~ the work with much zest and enthusiasm. '1'.he introduction of the " Scots Readers " into more of the schools is a satis factory feature. In addition to the competitions held by Education Com mittees, several Burns Clubs still continue to hold their own competitions, and these should be encouraged. Dumfries Burns Club as usual held the Joseph Laing Waugh Competi- tion for the schools in Nithsdale. ' The thanks of the Burns Federation are gratefully extended to Mr. J. Douglas Cairns, Mr. Dewar M. Robb; and Dr. John W. Oliver for framing the examination questions which, from reports received, gave general satisfaction to pupils and teachers alike. Thanks are also due to the Burns Clubs who orga.nise the Competitions in Scottish Literature and to the teachers for their interest in the works of our Scottish poets. Competitions held by Burns Clubs . .. Book Certi· Schools Competitors Prizes C:Ups flca.tes Alloway Burns Club ...... 1 43 11 Sa.vings Cumbernauld Burns Club ...... 1 8· Certiflca.te1 Dumfries Burns Club ...... 17 834 83 54 High Blantyre Burns Club ... 1 75 14 Sa.vings Muirkirk Lapraik B.C ...... 3 192 Sta.mps 32 Newbattle and District B.C .... 1 280 12 3 3 Renfrewshire RC.A...... 15 650 17 22 \ 39 2082 137 3 111 94 SCHOOL COMPETITIONS SooTTIBH LITERATURE CoMPETITION-1945 --- I No. of Pupils - =0 :sdueation No. of :a No.of Committee Schools ... CerliflcatM ...... ~ i :g., Oi:I "a ·u ·h.,., ...... 112 0017.1 jJ i ~ I ~ i ------~---~ ~ ! Angus ...... 6 801 197 4 .- - 1,002 34 Argyllshire ... 10 297 111 136 - - 544 55 Ayrshire ...... 20 2,498 659 1,764 152 - 5,073 187 Banffshire ..• ... 17 650 224 215 39 - 1,128 88 Berwick1hire ... 6 156 47 157 15 - 375 31 Buteshir...... 3 349 91 - - - 440 17 Clackmannan ... 13 491 254 406 40 - 1,191 50 Dundee ...... 13 2,861 411 322 -- 3,594 109 East Lothian ... 8 306 lll 526 55 - 998 48 Edinburgh ... 60 8,366 2,691 3,183 125 50 14,415 405 Fife ...... 27 3,104 549 1,330 - - 4,983 192 Glasgow ...... 42 7,661 1,116 2,326 593 49 11,745 384 Kincardineshire ... 4 107 38 8 - - 153 20 Kirkoud brightshire 4 158 65 62 - - 285 21 Lanarkshire ... 30 2,585 797 1,471 45 - 4,898 243 Midlothian ... 2 423 -- - - 423 10 Pert~hire ...... 20 1,131 322 399 - - 1,852 12l Renf wshire ... 6 408 240 281 - - 929 44 Ross and Cromarty 3 45 20 3:! - - 97 12 Roxburghshire ... 9 526 213 109 5 - 853 48 1 Stirlingshire ... 24 3,236 858 1,030 328 - 5,452 180 Wigtownahire ... 4 129 57 38 - - 224 13 I ------Total ... 331 36,288 9,071 13,799 1,397 99 60,654 2,312 I--- FRED. J. BELFO:itD, I1on. Secretar11, Schools Competitions . • THE BURNS FEDERATION I FINANCIAL STATEMENT For Year ended 31st July, 1945 ... 4 4 4 4 5 5 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 6 9 9 0 0 6 6 7 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 11 10 10 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 5 1 13 13 19 19 18 18 14 14 10 10 13 13 12 12 16 16 17 17 14 14 10 10 17 17 19 19 5 5 3 3 2 2 2 6 6 6 6 3 3 4 4 0 0 28 28 11 11 70 70 85 85 22 22 95 95 608 608 150 150 482 482 £39 £39 £1,629 £1,629 9 9 0 0 9 9 0 0 0 0 6 6 0 0 5 5 O O 11 11 7 7 2 1 1 2 9 9 5 l l 9 9 8 16 16 10 10 17 17 10 10 15 15 14 14 12 12 10 10 1 1 9 9 9 12 12 37 37 12 12 45 45 72 72 40 40 35 35 471 471 £19 £19 £42 £42 £135 £135 £334 £334 of of ...... Ltd., Ltd., and and Competitions, Competitions, . . .. .. . . Series Series ...... .. .. . . Service, Service, Officials, Officials, Chain, Chain, contributors, contributors, Ltd.-Print- postages, postages, 2nd 2nd (Glasgow), (Glasgow), . . Houses, Houses, .. .. of of ...... .. .. ...... ...... . . . . . . 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Bank, Bank, BROWN BROWN MACINTYRE, MACINTYRE, Savings Savings Savings Savings Competition, Competition, Savings Savings Children's Children's GEORGE GEORGE WILLIAM WILLIAM JAMES JAMES Waugh Waugh School School Glasgow Glasgow Dumfries Dumfries Dumfries Dumfries FUND FUND for for (Signe in in in in (Signed) (Signed) in in Laing Laing Branch), Branch), FUND FUND Balance Balance Prizes, Prizes, Bala.nee Bala.nee Tra.nsfer Tra.nsfer Ha.lance Ha.lance , , ,, ,, , , FUND FUND MEMORIAL MEMORIAL By By By By By By I I 3 3 correct. correct. 0 0 I I 4 4 8 8 2 2 0 0 WAUGH WAUGH LITERATURE LITERATURE 10 10 11 11 2 2 7 19 19 10 10 14 14 13 13 16 16 18 18 12 12 10 10 CENTRAL CENTRAL found found 6 6 6 5 8 8 6 6 9 9 9 12 12 19 19 LAING LAING £240 £240 £436 £436 £221 £221 £23053 £23053 £223 £223 £399 £399 and and SCO'ITISH SCO'ITISH JOSEPH JOSEPH 1945.-Exa.mined 1945.-Exa.mined 1945, 1945, 1945, 1945, Auguat, Auguat, 1944-45, 1944-45, lBt lBt 1944, 1944, 1944, 1944, 1944, 1944, ...... for for January, January, January, January, July, July, July, July, July, July, Fees Fees Clubs, Clubs, Clubs, Clubs, 3lst 3lst 3lst 3lst 3lst 3lst 3lst 3lst 3lst 3lst by by by by MAUCHLINE, MAUCHLINE, to to to to a.t a.t at at a.t a.t Affiliation Affiliation Interest Interest Interest Interest Donations Donations Bala.nee Bala.nee Ba.lance Ba.lance Balance Balance Interest, Interest, Donations Donations Half Half ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ., ., ,, ,, To To To To To To "' "' LIST OF THE !330 BURNS CLUBS AND SCO'.l'TISH SOCIETIES • ON 'l'HE ROLL OF THE BURNS FEDERATION, 194ti The Secretary of a Club is also its " Burns Chronicle " official, unles.~ another name and add1·ess is given [Corrected to 3rd November 1945] I 0-KILMARNOCK BURNS CLUB : instituted 1808; federated 1885; 100 members; President, Dr. R. C. Hamilton; Secretary and Treas urer, W. Y. Haggo, 32 Kay Park Crescent, Kilmarnock. 1-THE BURNS CLUB OF LONDON : instituted 1868; federated 1885; 300 members; President, John Cormack; Acting Secretary and Treasurer, Donald Munro, 35 Elgar Avenue, Surbiton, Surrey; Hurm Chronicle official, James Abernethy, " Deveron," Mayfield Drive, Nower Hill, Pinner, Middlesex. 2-ALEXANDRIA BURNS CLUB : instituted 1884; federated 1885; 43 members; President, John Gilmour; Secretary, John Barton, 126 Middleton Street, Alexandria; Treasurer, William Dow, Donnolly, Dalmonach Road, Bonhill; Burns Chronicle official, George Knox, King Edward Street, Alexandria. 3-TAM o' SHAN'l'ER BURNS CLUB : instituted 1858; federated 1885; 105 members; President, Daniel Bain, M.C., M.A.; Secretary, J. Seaton Smith, 71 Springboig Road, Shettleston, 'Glasgow, E.2; Treasurer, Ernest RusseU, British Linen Bank, Broomhill, Glasgow.' 4-----0ALLANDER BURNS CLUB : instituted 1877; federated 1885; 50 members; President, J. G. Simpson; Secretary, Alex. D. Cumming, J.P., F.E.I.S., Auchengower, Callander; Treasurer, Archibald Callanin, County Offices, Callander. "7-THISTLE BURNS CLUB : instituted 1882; federated 1885; 50 member&; President, A. J. Garvan; Secretary, John Vallance, 56 Queensborough Gardens, Glasgow, W.2; Treasurer, David Moffat, 19 Park Road, Glasgow, C.4; Burns Chronicle official, John Morton, 69 Nicholson Street, Glasgow, C.5. 9-ROYALTY BURNS CLUB : instituted 1882; federated 1886; 63 members; President, T. M. Smith; Secretary and Treasurer, Alexander C. Dickson, 75 Fox Street, Glasgow, C.1. BURNS CLUBS .AND SCO'fl'ISH 80CIETIES 99 10-DUKBARTON BURNS CLUB : instituted 1857 ; federated 1886 ; 80 members; President, John .A. Grant; Secretary and Treasurer, John Lithgow, Park Lea, Stirling Road, Dumbarton. 14-DUNDEE BURNS CLUB : instituted 1860; federated 1886; 30 members; President, George Smith; Secretary, H. R. Paton, 37 Union Street, Dundee; Treasurer, Alex. McLaggan, Kirk Entry, Dundee. 15-BELFAST BURNS ASSOCIATION : instituted 1886; federated 1886; 349 members; President, Andrew Hunter; Secretary, Mrs. W. Brooke, "Camf.sie," Larnbeg, Co. Antrim, N. Ireland; Treasurer, Frank O'Neil, B.A., 1 Tennyson Drive, Bangor, Co. Down; Burns Chronicle official, Thomas Forbes, 51 Marlborough Park Central, Belfast. 17-NOTTINGHAM SCOTTISH ASSOCIATION : instituted 1871; re-constituted 1902; federated 1886; re-affiliated 1903; 305•members; President, Lieut.-Commander G. J. Mackness, D.S.C., R.N.; Secretary, James F. Speirs, 64 Harrow Road, West Bridgford, Nottingham; Treasurer, Mrs. H. M. Crowley, 12 Leahurst Road, West Bridg ford, Nottingham; Burns Chronicle official, John Currie, 20 Arboretum Street, Nottingham. 20--AIRDRIE BURNS CLUB : instituted 1885; federated 1886; 160 members; Secretary and Treasurer, J. Campbell MacGregor, 10 Bank Street, Airdrie. 21-GREENOCK BURN.s CLUB : instituted 1801; federated 1886; 190 members; President, Albion A. Kadwell; Secretary, Andrew F. Macmillan, 74 West Blackball Street, Greenock; Treasurer, Edward A. Pressley, 74 West Blackball Street, Greenock; Burns Chronicle official, Nairn Richardson, c/o Parjr, 18 Robertson Street, Greenock. 22-EDINBURGH BURNS CLUB : instituted 1848; federated 1886 ; 150 members; President, James Mullo Weir, S.S.C., F.S.A.Scot.; Secretary and Treasurer, George Harris, F.A.S.A., 34 St. Andrew Square, Edinburgh, 2. 25-ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY OF WINNIPEG : instituted 1871; federated 1886; 185 members; President, Geor~e Skinner; Secretary, John D. McKelvie, 751 Valour Road, Winnipeg, Canada; Treasurer, George M. Paton, 200 Dromore Avenue, Winnipeg_; Burns Chronicle official, Robert Stevenson, 34 Martin Avenue, Winnipeg. 26-PERTH BURNS CLUB : instituted 1873; federated 1886 ; 46 member& • President, Andrew Arthur; Secretary, J. Livingstone Milne 4 King Edward Street, Perth; Treasurer, J. B. Monteith. ' 33--GLASGOW HAGGIS CLUB : instituted 1872; federated 1886; 90 mem bers; President, Duncan Morgan; Secretary and Treasurer, O. Lennox Dunley, M.C., C.A., 31 St. Vincent Place, Glasgow, C.1. .34--cARRICK BURNS CLUB : instituted 1859; federated 1887; 32 members· President, 4rthur E. Collins; Secretary and Treasurer, Willia~ Allan, 5 Netherview Road, Netherlee, Glasgow . .. 100 BURNS CLUBS AND SCOTTISH SOCIETIES ~DALBY (AYRSWRE) BURNS CLUB : instituted 1825; federated 1887. 70 members; President, William Barclay Brown; Secretaries' James D. Gordon, Solicitor, Dairy, Ayrshire, and William Wilson' M.A., Northfield, D~lry, A;yrshire; Treasurer, James D. Gordon! Burns Chronicle offidial, William Wilson, M.A. ' 36-ROSEBERY BURNS CLUB : instituted 1885; federated 1887; 120 mem bers; President, Mrs. Andrew Aiken; Secretary, A. W. Alexander, 55 GlenC?e Street, Glasgow, W.3; Treasurer, William McMinn, 5 St. Vmcent Place, Glasgow, C.l; Burns Chronicle official, Treasurer. 37-DOLLAR BURNS CLUB : instituted 1887; federated 1887; 41 members; President, J. G. Shirreffs; Secretary, Peter Mitchell, 22 Cairn park Street, Dollar; Treasurer, John Muckersie, Station Road, Dollar. 40-ABERDEEN BURN!( CLUB : instituted 1887; fe,derated 1889; 60 mem bers; President, George Mutch; Secretary, Frank Robertson, c/o Aberdeen University Press, Ltd., 6 Upper Kirkgate, Aber deen; Treasurer, Miss A. M. Stewart, 116 Union Grove, Aberdeen; Burns Chronicle official, Treasurer. 44-FORFAR BURNS CLUB : instituted 1891; federated 1891; 153 mem bers ; President, James N. Strachan ; Secretary and Treasurer, Norman W. Awburn, 33 Lour Road, Forfar. 45-cu11rnocx BURNS CLUB : instituted 1887; federated 1891; 60 mem bers; President, Andrew Taylor; Secretary, James Welsh, M.A., LL.B., The Holm, Cumnock, Ayrshire; Treasurer, Hunter M. Connell, Hillcrest, Cumnock. 48-PAISLEY BURNS CLUB : instituted 1805; federated 1891; 30 members; President, Frank L" Paton; Secretary _and Treasurer, George B. Ballantyne, 9 Potterhill Avenue, Paisley. _ 49-BRIDGETON BURNS CLUB : instituted 1870; federated 1891 ; 1400 members; President, Andrew Boyd; Secretary and Treasurer, C. Gordon Brown, 569 London Road, Glasgow, S.E. 50-STIRLING BURNS CLUB : instituted 1886; federated 1892; 130 mem bers; President, Robert Graham; Secretary, Thos. R. Corrie, 36 Upper Craigs, Stirling; Treasurer, Robert Graham, M.B.E., National Bank House, Stirling; Burns Chronicle official, Treasurer. 53-=-GOVAN FAIRFIELD BURNS CLUB : instituted 1886; federated 1892; 24 merµbers; President, Andrew M'Garra; Secretary, Thomas Rae, 141 Belses Drive, Glasgow, S.W.2; Treasurer, Miss E. M'Lean, 824 Govan Road, Glasgow, S.W.l; Burns Chronicle official, A. Macdonald, 15 Northcroft Road, Springburn, Glasgow, N. ~DERBY SCOTTISH ASSOCIATION AND BURNS CLUB : instituted 1890; federated 1893; 240 members; President, J. M. Campbell; Secre taries, W. M. Wylie and R. B. Meikle, 12 Kedleston Road, Allestree, near Derby; Treasurer, R. McAuley, 165 Kedleston Road, Derby. • BURNS CLUBS AND SCOTTISH SOCIETIES 101 56--MUIRKIRK LAPRAIK BURNS CLUB : instituted 1893 j federated 1893; 120 members; President Dr. J. C. Cameron; Secretary, George Vallance, Station Road~ Muirkirk; Treasurer, E. M. Kerr, Clydes· dale Bank, Muirkirk; 11urns Chronicle official, Treasurer. 59-GOl'ROCK JOLLY BEGGARS BURNS CLUB : instituted 1893 j federated 1893; 96 members; President, Capt. Alex. M. Campbell; Secre tary, Lachlan A. Osborne, 5 M 'Callum Crescent, Gourock; Treasurer, Wm. R. Drummond, 63 Shore Street, Gourock; Burn8 Chronicle official, Treasurer. 62-cUPAR BURNS CLUB : instituted 1893; federated 1893; 110 members; President, Sherifi-Substitute More; Secretary, William Wilson, Westland&, Cupar-Fife; Treasurer, R. G. Rutherford, National Bank, Cupar-F1fe. 68-SANDYFORD (GLASGOW) BURNS CLUB : instituted 1893; federated 1894; 560 members; President, W. Sloan Smith; Secretary and Treasurer, Samuel W. Love, British Linen Bank, Knightswood Branch, 1986 Great Western Road, Glasgow, W.3; Burns Ckr 91-SHETTLEBTON BURNS CLUB : institu~ed 1897; federated 1897; 120 members; President, W. F. Cooke; Secretary, W. Hunter, Stanl~ Cottage, 110 Carntynehall Road, Glasgow, E.2; Treasurer, J. L. Taylor, 247 Ardgay Street, Glasgow, E.2. 102 BURNS CLUBS AND SCOTTISH SOCIETIES 96-JEDBURGH BURNS CLUB : instituted 1869; federated 1897; 50 members; President, Councillor Andrew Moncur; Secretary and Treasurer, Andrew O. Clarkson, 11 The Bountrees, Jedburgh. 100-HAMILTON MOSSGIEL BURNS CLUB : inatituted 1892; federated 1898; .50 members; President, John R. Fotheringham; Secretary, Henry J. Robertson, Couplaw Farm, Strathaven; Treasurer, John King, 21 N eilsland Road, Hamilton. 108---EAST CALDER AND DIS(rRICT JOLLY BEGGARS BURNS CLUB : instituted 1897; federated 1899; 86 members; President, John M. Wardlaw; Secretary, Alex. Henderson, 37 Langton Road, East Calder; Treasurer, James Glasgow, Main Street, East Calder. 112-DUMFRIES BURNS HOWFF CLUB : instituted 1888; federated 1899; 101 members; President, John Sturgeon; Joint Secretaries, N. Little, 4 Cumberland Street, Dumfries, and John Andrew; Treasurer, W. Cowan, Norgate, Rotchell Road, Dumfries; Burn1 Chronicle official, T. S. M'Crorie, Burns House, Dumfries. 120--BRISTOL CALEDONIAN SOCIETY : instituted 1820 ; federated 1900; 195 members ; President, J. E. Barbour ; Secretary and Treasurer, F. W. Whitehead, Albion Chambers, Bristol. 121-HAMILTON JUNIOR BURNS CLUB: instituted 1886; federated 1901.J 20 members; Secretary and Treasurer, John H. Cameron, l:l.l Morris Street, Hamilton. 124-THE NINETY BURNS CLUB : instituted 1890; federated 1902; 80 members; President, George Lyall; Secretary, Robert A. B. M'Laren, 4 Mayfield Road, Edinburgh, 9; Treasurer, Alexander Montgomery, 103 Craiglea Drive, Edinburgh, 10; Burn1 Chfoonicle official, Treasurer. 125--BLACKBURN-ON-ALMOND BURNS CLUB : instituted 1897; federated 1902; 30 members; President, James W. Sangster; Secretary, George Millar, 1 Mosshall Place, Blackburn, by Bathgate, West Lothian; Treasurer, Robert Savage, Almond Inn, Blackburn, 'by Bathgate. 126-FALKIRK BURNS CLUB : instituted 1866; federated 1902; 200 members; President, Dr. W. J. Logie; Secretary and Treasurer, R. H. Menzies, Princes Street, Falkirk. 133-NEWAB.THILL BURNS CLUB : instituted 1903; federated 1904; 16 members; President, Thos. Law1 J.P. ; Secretary, Jas. B. Mathew 23 Loanhead Crescent, N ewarth11l ; Treasurer, Alex. Maxwell, 1n l High Street, N ewarthill; Burm Chronicle official, Treasurer. 135-PARTICK WESTERN BURNS CLUB : instituted 1903; federated 1904; 100 members; President, John Hunter; Secretary and Treasurer, W. J. Menzies. 139--NATIONAL BURNS CLUB : instituted 1904; federated 1904; 100 mem bers; President, George Barnett; Secretary and Treasurer, . William B. Harkness, C.A., 48 West Regent Street, Glasgow, C.2. • BURNS CLUBS AND ·~COTTISH SOCIETIES 103 149-ELGIN BURNS CLUB : instituted• 1905; federated 1905; President, John Wittet; Secretary and Treasurer, William W1ttet, Elgin. 152-THE HAMILTON BURNS CLUB : instituted 1877; federated- 1906; 130 members; President, Henry A. Rankin, F.S.I.; Secretary, Lieut.-Col. Alex. Cullen, O.B.E., F.R.I.B.A. (On Service); Treasurer and Acting-Secretary, Col. W. Martin Kay, C.M.G., C.B.E., Bank of Scotland Chamber&, Hamllton; Burna Chronicle official, Treasurer. 153--SCOTTISH BURNS CLUB : instituted 1903; federated 1906; 350 mem bers; President, Jame& Adair; Secretary and Treasurer, J. Kevan McDowall, 115 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, 0.2. 156-NEWCASTLE AND TYNESIDE BURNS CLUB : instituted 1864; federated 1906; 150 ~embers; President, J. Maxwell Garden; Secretary and Acting-Treasurer, F. Ferry, 48 Bolbec Road, Fenham, Newcastle-on-Tyne .. 157-BAILLIESTON CALEDONIAN BURN.s CLUB : instituted 1901; federated 1906; President, John Scobbie; Secriitary, Andrew Swan, 6 Maxwell Street, Baillieston; Treasurer, Donald McFarlane, 36 Main Street, Bliillieston; Burna Chronicle official, Treasurer. 158-DARLINGTON BURNS ASSOCIATION : instituted 1906; federated 1906; 100 members; President, David Stevenson; Secretary, Alexander Furness, 3 The Rise, Wood vale Road, Darlington; Financial Secretary, Wm. R. Vickerton, 25 High Row, Darlington. l~WHITBURN BURNS CLUB : federated 1906; Secretary, William Ramsay, 21 Manse Avenue, Whitburn, West Lothian. 161- 165-WALLSEND BURNS CLUB : instituted 1887; federated 1907; 50 mem bers; President, James Sanderson; Secretary, G. Pringle, 3 Rochdale Street, Wallsend; Treasurer, G. Gibbs, 21 Briarwood Crescent, Walkerville, Newcastle. · 167-BIRMINGHAM: AND MIDLAND SCOTTISH SOCIETY : instituted 1888; federated 1907; 400 members; President, W. Ralph Purnell, O.B.E.; Secretary, R. G. Robertson, 84 Colmoro Row, Birming ham, 3; TrE>asurer, R. M'Kenzie, 50 Stirling Road, Edgbaston, Birmin~ham, 16; Burns Chronicle official, Treasurer. 169-GLASGOW AND DISTRICT BURNS ASSOCIATION : instituted 1907; federated 1908; 27 clubs; President, J. Seaton Smith; Secretary, Andrew Stenhouse, M.A., LL.B., 28 Bath Street, Glasgow, C.2; Treasurer, A. Neil Campbell, F.C.C.S., 10 Lothian Gardens, Glasgow, N.W.; Burns Chronicle official, Treasurer. 171- 173-IRVINE BURNS CLUB : instituted 1826; federated 1908; 240 members; President, William Phillips, M.A.; Secretary, Robert Stewart, 2 Park Terrace, Irvine; Treasurer, J. Norval Murray, Woodlands, Irvine; Burns Chronicle official, Treasurer. 181-PRIMROSE BURNS CLUB : instituted 1900; federated 1909; 80 mem bers; President, Harold F. Nicholls; Secretary and Treasurer, George Calderwood, 151 Tantallon Road, Glasgow, S.1. 183-LONDONDERRY BURNS CLUB AND CALEDONIAN SOCIETY : instituted 1907; federated 1909; 29 members.; President, George Sidebottom; Secretary~ William A. Dickie, 32 Great James Street, London derry; Treasurer, John Murray, Glencairn, 39 Aberfoyle Cres cent, LondondeiTy; Burns Uhronicle official, George P. Findlay, 37 Marlborough Street, Londonderry. · • 184-BLAIRADAM SHANTER BURNS CLUB : instituted 1907; federated 1909; 30 members; President, Thos. Brown; Secretary, Thos. C. Anderson, Rowan Cottage, Main Street, Kelty, Fife; Treasurer, John Clarkson, 50 Blair Street, Kelty. 190-PORT GLASGOW BURNS CLm : instituted 1910; federated 1910; 50 members; President, Peter Slater; Secret,ry, Cornelius Young, Benclutha, Clune Brae, Port Glasgow; Treasurer, James Lowe, 24 John Wood Street, Port Glasgow. 192-AYisHJRE ASSOCIATION OF FEDERATED BURNS CLUBS : inotituted 1908; federated 1910; 19 clubs; President, James Dunlop ; Secretary and Treasurer, John M. Irving, 20 Melville Street, Kilmarnock. 197-WINNIPEG BURNS CLUB : instituted 1905; federated 1911, 30 mem bers; President, James M. Brown; Secretary, Robert A. Sloan, 150 Garfield Street, Winnipeg, Man., Canada; Treaeurer, David Burnside, 266 Simcoe Street, Winnipeg. 198--GOREBRIDGE TWENTY-FIVE JOLLY BEGGARS BURNS CLUB : instituted 1906; federated 1911; 50 members; President, Alexander Juner; Secretary, Thomas Rutherford, 35 Hunterfield Terrace, Gore bridge; Treasurer, John Watson, New Hunterfield, Gorebrldge. 199-NEWBATTLE AND DISTRICT BURNS CLUB : instituted 1910; federated 1911; 166 members; President, Robert Knight; Secretary, Robert McCathie, 3 Mansfield Place, N ewtongrange; Treasurer, George Temple, 30 Galadale Crescent, N ewtongrange. 207--0AMBUSLANG WINGATE BURNS CLUB : instituted 1908; federated 1912; 20 members; President, Robert Forrester; Secretary, Allan M. Hartley, 1 Berwick Drive, Burnside, Rutherglen; Treasurer, Robert Dalrymple, 18 Church Street, Cambuslang ; Burna Uhronicle official, GeOJ'ge Anderson, 34 Bankhead Road, Ruther glen. ~OLORADO SPRINGS AND DISTRICT CALEDONIAN SOCIETY : instituted 1897; federated 1912; 12 members; President, John Ferguson; Secretary, John B. Wemyss, 1720 N. El Paso Street, Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S.A.; Treas1J¥r, Chas. S. Hamilton, c/o Enterpriae Tent and Awning Co., Colorado Springs, Colorado, ~a~ . BURNS CLUBS ANl> SCOTTISH SOCIETIES 105 ~11.EENOCK ST. JOHN'S BURNS CLUB: instituted 1909; federated 1912; 180 members; President, William Brown; Secretary, John Camp bell, 33 Lyle Street, Greenock; Treasurer, John Monteith, 'Z1 Nelson Street, Greenock. 212-POB.TOBELLo BURNS CLUB : instituted 1892; federated 1913; 74 members; President, R. M. Cavaye; Secretary, J. M. Bell, 38 Durham Sq_uare, Portobello, Midlothian; Treasurer, A. Ha.rrie Horne, British Linen Bank, Portobello, Midlothian ; Burna Ohronicle official, Treasurer. 213--KINGSTON BURNS CLUB : instituted 1912; federated 1913; 90 members; President, Robert Armour; Treasurer, Alex. C. Smith, 150 Arisaig Drive, Glasgow, S.W.2; Burna Ohronicle official, Mrs. J. Somerville, 124 Pollok Street, Glasgow, C.5. 217-ESKDALE BURNS CLUB: federated 1913; 43 members; President, ProVO!lt J. Ewart; Secretary and Treasurer, R. Dalgleish, 1 Eskdaill Street, Langholm. 218-BANNOCKBURN EMPIRE BURNS CLUB : instituted 1912; federated 1913; 36 members; President, Thomas Hood; Secretary and Treasurer, Andrew M'Gilchrist, 18 Bruce Street, Bannockburn. 220-BUB.NS CLUB OF ST. LOUIS : instituted 1904; federated 1913; 31 members; President, Alexander M. Buchan; Secretary and Treasurer, William Charles, 1221 Locust Street, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A. 225-HELENSBURGH BURNS CLUB : instituted 1911; federated 1913; 100 members; President, Robert Brown; Secretary, Thomas Ferguson, 104 West Princes Street, Helensburgh; Treasurer, Alex. GOodlet, 45 East Princes Street, Helensburgh. 226-DUMFRIES BURNS CLUB : instituted 1820; federated 1913; 76 members; President, James Denniston; Joint Secretary and Treasurer, William Black, Cardean, Eaetfield Road, Dumfries (Interim), and G~orge McKerrow (On Service). 236-WHITEHAVEN BURNS qLUB : instituted 1914; federated 1914; 60 members; President, R. T. Bell; Secretary and Treasurer, Duncan Jamieson, 25 Lowther Street, 'Whitehaven. 237-UDDINGSTON MASONIC BURNS CLUB : instituted 1914; federated 1914; 30 members; President, Ben. McJ)ougall; Secretary, David N. Miller, 41 Glen Road, Springboig, Shettleston; Treasurer, Arthur Downie, 89 Woodlands Crescent, Bothwell. 238-BURNS CLUB OF ATLANTA (GEORGIA) : instituted 1896; federated 1914; 58 members; President, Dr. R. E. Latta; Secretary, Robert Macdonald, 1024 Los Angeles Avenu~, N.E., Atlanta, Geori;ia, U.S.A.; Treasurer, Eugene F. King, 10 Pryor Street Building, Atlanta. 239--BAWICX BURNS CLUB : instituted 1878; federated 1914; 472 mem bers; President, David Lyon; Secretary, John E. Carlyle, 77 Longcroft Crescent, Hawick; Treasurer, Alexander Prh1gle, 14 Wellington Street, Hawick. 106 BURNS CLUBS AND SCOTTISH SOCIETIES 242-MONTROSE BURNS CLUB : instituted 1908; federated 1915; 100 members; President, James Christison; Secretary and Treasurer, Duncan Fraser, 66 High Street, Montrose. 244-DALMUIR BURNS CLUB : instituted 1914; federated 1916; 80 mem bers; President, Wm. Boyle; Secretary and 'l'reasurer, John R. S. Lockhart, 41 E. Thomson Street, Clydebank. 250--coWDENBEA'l'H TAM o' SHANTER BURNS CLUB : instituted 1917; federated 1917; 20 members; President, John Duff; Secretary, William _Easton, 2 Prospect Street, Cowdenbeath Fife; Trea surer, George ~o:ffat, 162 Faulford Road, t:owdenbeath, Fife. 252-ALLOWAY BURNS CLUB : instituted 1908; federated 1918; 77 mem bers; President, William Reid, F.1.A.A. ; Secretary and Treasurer, W. B. Campbell, Alloway Schoolhouse, Ayr. 254-GREENOCK VICTORIA BURNS CLUB : instituted 1915; federated 1918; 80 members; President, Alexander Burns; Secretary, James T. Tomlinson, 17 Auchmountain Road, Greenock; Treasurer, Frank Cavers, 5 Moreton Terrace, Greenock. 256-NEWTON-ON-AYR BURNS CLUB : instituted 1904; federated 1919; re-affiliated 1943; 93 members; President, Andrew Taylor; Secretary, Edward Leggat, 15 Back Hawkhill, Ayr; Treasurer, \ Alexander Borland, 31 Church Street, Ayr. 262-l'Il'ESHIRE BURNS ASSOCIATION : instituted 1919; federated 1919; 9 members (clubs); President, John M. Thomson; Secretary, Thos. C. Anderson, Rowan Cottage, Main Street, Kelty, Fife; Treasurer, Thos. Bain, 7 Union Street, Kelty, Fife. 263- 26~NEWTON JOLLY BEGGARS BURNS CLUB : instituted 1910; federated · 1920; 10 members; President, Wm. Mcintosh; Secretal'I, A. Lightbody, 60 Pitt Street, Newton, Camb\lslang; Treasurer, Thoe. Hynd, 30 Dunlop Street, Newton, Cambuslang. 271-TRENTON BURNS CLUB : instituted 1919; federated 1920; 25 mem bers ; President, John Macfarlane ; Secretary, Robert Cunning ham, 718 Hoffman Avenue, Trenton, N.J., U.S.A.; Treasurer, David Waugh, 267 Clover Avenue, Trenton. 274-TROON BURNS CLUB : instituted 1920; federated 1920; 110 members; President, Ian Mackintosh; Secretary, Robert Wallace, " Drum lanrig," Dallas Place, Troon; Treasurer, Norman D. McPherson, Bank of Scotland, Troon. 275-AYR BURNS CLUB : instituted 1886; federated 1920; 200 members; President, John Neill; Secretary, D. J. Willison, Gearholm, Ayr; Treasurer, Norman MacKinnon, C.A., 23 Barns Street, Ayr. 278-cLAN STEWART NO. 50 ORDER OF SCOTTISH CLANS : instituted 1888; federated 1920; 180 members; President, P. M. Young; Secre tary, William Morrison, 1130 East 3rd Street, Duluth, 5, Minn., U.S.A.; Treasurer, Archie Brown, 108 Eden Lane, Duluth. BURNS CLUBS AND SCOTTISH SOCIETIES 107 282--GLASGOW AND DISTRICT BURNS CLUBS' BOWLING ASSOCIATION : inati ~uted 1899; federated 1920; President, John Dunlop; Secretary and Treasurer, David Mackin, 3 Millikin Place, Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire. 283-SINCLAmTOWN BURNS CLUB : instituted 1920; federated 1920; 32 members; President, James D. Henderson; Secretary, John D. Bease, 1 Dysart Road, Kirkcaldy; Treasurer, George S. Nicol, 198a St. Clair Street, Kirkcaldy. 284-PHILADELPHIA NORTHEASTERN BURNS CLUB : instituted 1896; feder ated 1921 ; 60 members ; President, Robert Gardner ; Secretary, Henry Dollins, 6540 Marsden Street, Philadelphia, Penn., U.S.A.; Treasurer, Thomas Garland, 3415 N. Ella Street, Philadelphia; Burns Uhronicle official, Alexander MacDonald, 4203 E. Barnett Street, Philadelphia. 288-BEITH CALEDONIA BURNS CLUB : instituted 1911; federated 1921 ; 26 members; President, S. Mccutcheon; Secretary and Treasurer, Allan Gilmour, Muir Park, Beith. 292-GRAHAMSTON BURNS CLUB : instituted 1920; federated 1921; 40 members; President, William P. Tu!'llhull; Secretary, Robert Mackie, 91 Main Street, Bainsford, Falkirk; Treasurer, John S. Mcinnes, 23 Carronside Street, Falkirk; Burns Chronicle official, Treasiwer. 293-NEWCRAIGHALL DISTRICT POOBllY NANCY BURNS CLUB : instituted 1921 ; federated 1921; 36 members; President, Andrew King; Secretary, Thos. Sneddon, 16 Avenue Square, N ewcraighall, Musselburgh; Treasurer, Robt. B. Brown, 15 Park Terrace, Newcraighall, Musselburgh; Burns UhroniJcle official, Treasurer. 29fr-THE BURNS HOUSE CLUB LIMITED : instituted 1920; federated 1921 ; 127 members ; President, John Duncan; Secretary and Treasurer, John Grant, C.A., 200 St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, C.2. 296--WALSALL BURNS CLUB : instituted 1900; federated 1922; 50 mem bers; President, H. Harker; Secretary, Dr. D. M. Macmillan, Great Barr Hall, Birmingham, 22A; Treasurer, H. Myatt, "Ashleigh," Lichfield Road, Rushall, near Walsall. 303-VICTORIA BT. ANDREW'S AND CALEDONIAN socmTY: instituted 1872; federated 1922; 106 members; President, James Berwick; Secre tary, Miss Georgina Mackay, 1360 McNair Street, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada ; Treasurer, Mrs. Dirom, 830 Princess Avenue, Victoria, British Columbia. 305-NEW WATERFORD BURNS CLUB, CANADA : federated 1922, reaffiliated 1938;·Secretary, W.R. Cameron, 417-lOth Street, New Waterford, Cape Breoon, Nova Scotia, Canada. 307-EDINBURGH AYRSHIRE ASSOCIATION : instituted 1914; federated 1922; 230 members; President, Henry Barton; Secretary and Treasurer, John McVie, 13'Hillside Crescent, Edinburgh, 7. 309-ANNAN BURNS CLUB : instituted 1910; federated 1923; 75 members; President, Robert Latimer; Secretary and Treasurer, K. G. Sutherland, Royal Bank Buildings, Annan. 108 BURNS CLUBS AND SCOTTISH SOCIETIES 310-MAUCHLINE BURNS CLUB : inatituted 1923; federated 1923; 185 mem bers; President, John Kevan McDowall, F.S.A.Scot.; Secretary, James Dunlop, "Oakbank," Manchline; Treasurer, Andrew Smith, "Alveston," Mauchline. 314-SCO'!TISH BURNS CLUB, EDINBURGH : instituted 1920; federated 1923; 90 members; President, F. J. Belford, M.A.; Secretary, D. P. Allan, 86 Spottiswoode Street, Edinburgh, 9; Treasurer, Wm. Kinnear, 22 Newington Road, Edinburgh, 8. 319-FISllEBBOW IUSONIC BURNS CLUB : instituted 1924; federated 1924; 20 members; President, John Robb; Secretary and Treasurer, John Heron, 33 Wellington Street, Portobello. 320-'I'ROY B17RNS CLUB : instituted 1903; federated 1924; 175 members; President, John T. Campbell; Secretary, James H. Baxter, 21 Bleecker Avenue, Troy, New York, U.S.A.; Treasurer, William Miller; Burna OhTonicle official, John R. Phillips. 323-KIRKCUDBBIGHT BURNS CLUB : federated 1924; 64 members; President, Sheriff James W. Forbes; Secretary: and Treasurer, Norman C. Macmillan, 32 St. Cuthbert Street, Kirkcudbright. 324-STOCKTON (N.s.w.) BURNS CLUB: instituted 1923; federated 1924; 25 members; President, William Miller; Secretary, William Hamilton, Dunbar Street, Stockton, N.S.W.; Trea.tle.rer, Mrs. D. James, 51 Fullerton Street, Stockton, N.S.W. · 325-VANCOUVEB. BURNS FELLOWSHIP : instituted 1924; federated 1924; President, John Crawford; Secretary and Treasurer, Miss Jean Carrick, 5456 Blenheim Street, Vancouver, B.C., Canada. 326-BINGRY JOLLY BEGGARS LADIES' BURNS CLUB : instituted 1924; federated 1924; 50 members; President, Mrs. J. Wood; Secre tary, Mrs. M. Purdie, Ballengry Place, Lochore, Fife; Treasurer, Mrs. M. Dow, 170 Waverley Cottages, Lochore, Fife. 327-PEBTH sr. MARK'S BURNS CLUB : instituted 1924; federated 1924; . 40 members; Secretary, William Smith!,.. 4 Hawarden Terrace, Jeanfield, Perth; Treasurer, David M~ae, 33 Glover Street, Craigie, Perth. 329-NEWABK AND DISTRICT CALEDONIAN SOCIETY : instituted 1923; federated 1924; 90 members; President, Coun. Dr. P. Kinmont, J ..P.; Secretary, James R. Henderson, 14 Winchilsea Avenue, Newark; Treasurer, Iain McCrea, 13 Milner Street, Newark. 330-GLENCRAIG BONNIE JEAN BURNS CLUB : instituted 1925; federated 1925; 20 members; President, Mrs. John McCormack; Secretary, Mrs. John Lynas, Burns Cottages, Crosshill, Glencraig_, Fife; Treasurer, Mrs. W. Justice, 7 Benarty Avenue, Crosshill, Glen craig; Burns Uh.ronicle official, Mrs. John Carson, 110 North Glencrajg, Glencraig. 331-ROBEB.T BURNS SOCIETY OF BUFFALO (N.Y.): instituted 1913; feder ated 1925; 74 members; President, Thomas Jamieson; Secretary, John C. Benders.on, 120 Weyand Street, Buffalo, N.Y., U ..S.A.; Treasurer, William J. Key, 66 Buffam Street, Buffalo. BURNS CLUBS AND !:iCOTTISH SOCIETIES 109 336-PETERHEAD BURNS CLUB : instituted 1826 ; federated 1925; 130 members; President, Professor David Campbell; Secretary, John A. S. Glennie, 21 Broad Street, Peterhead; Treasurer, A. M. Ross, National Bank of Scotland, Peterhead. 338-DALKEITH AND DISTRICT BURNS CLUB : instituted 1925; federated 1925, re-affiliated 1945; 28 members; President, Alex. Dow; Secretary, W. L. Anderson, 38 Woodburn Drive, Dalkeith; Treasurer, David Adams, 8 Edinburgh Road, Dalkeith. 341-LEITH BURNS CLUB : instituted 1826; federated 1925; 77 members· President, Dugald Rose, S.S.C.; Secretary, J. S. Mackie, 6 Hop~ Street, Leith; Treasurer, R. L. T. Richardson, M.C., 26 Leith Walk, Leith. 345--DENBEATH AND DISTRICT BURNS CLUB : instituted 1925 ; federated 1925, re-affiliated 1938; 34 members; President, Robert Hudson; Secretary, David T. Paton, 46 West High Street, Buckhaven, Fife. 346-oAKBANK MOSSGIEL BURNS CLUB : instituted 1923; federated 1925 l 200 members; President, Robert. M. Jamieson; Secretary, James. Ovens, 165 Oakbank, Mid Calder, Midlothian; Treasurer, Thomas McLuckie, Oakbank, Mid Calder, Midlothian. 348-NEWTON JEAN ARMOUR BURNS CLUB : instituted 1924; federated 1925; 19 members; President, Mrs. P. Davie; Secretary, Mrs. C. Gilmour, 23 Clyde Street, Newton, Hallside; Treasurer, Mrs. J. Farrell, 24 Westburn Road, Cambuslang, near Glasgow. 350-MABKINCH BUR1"s CLUB : instituted 1899; federated 1925; 160. members; President, Dr. A. S. Gordon; Secretary and Treasurer, James Carnegie, 2 Mitchell Place, Markinch. 352-GRANGEMOUTH BURN.s CLUB : in!ltituted 1922; federated 1926; go. members; President, William Aitken; Secretary and Treasurer, R. C. Th?mson, 203 Bo'ness Road, Grangemouth. 354-ROYAL CLAN, ORDER OF SCOTTISH CLANS : instituted 1878; federated 1926; President, Alex. G. McKnight; Secretary, Thomas R. P. Gibb, 199 Washington Street, Boston 8, Mass., U.S.A.; Treasurer, William Reid, 500 Municipal Building, New York, N.Y. 355--cALCUTTA BURNS CLUB : instituted 1926; federated 1926; 90 mem bers; President, A. Fraser; Secretary, W. F. Howe, c/o Messrs. Bird & Co., Chartered Bank Buildings, Calcutta; Treasurer, J. Findlay, c/o Messrs. Bird & Co., Chartered Bank Buildings, Calcutta. 356--BURNBANK AND DISTRICT MASON\C BURNS CL\B : instituted 1926; federated 1926; 70 members; President, J. Gray; Secretary, Joseph Stannage, 20 High Blantyre Road, Burnbank, Hamilton; Treasurer, J. Prentice, 1 Reid Street, Bumbank, Hamilton. 363-BARROW ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY : inst~uted 1878; federated 1926; 130 members; President, SiJ- James Callander; Secretary, W. J. Liddle, F.R.C.S.Ed., Duke ,Street, Barrow-in-Furness; Treasurer, R. M. Robertson, Dunedin, 21 Grantley Road, Barrow-in-Furness. llO BURNS CLUBS AND SCOTTISH SOCIETIES 365-cATRINE BURNS CLUB : instituted 1925; federated 1926; re-affiliated 1945; 30 members ; President, Thomas Auld ; Secretary, David Paterson, 36 Som Street, Catrine; Treasurer, Hugh Ramsay 1 Ballochmyle Street, Catrina; Bwrna 366--LIVBRPOOL BURNS CLUB : inetituted 1925 ; federated 1926 ; members; Acting Preaident, John Findlater; Secretary, Hamish H. Rae, 30 Rodney Street, Liverpool, 1; Treasurer, D. C. Wright, 7 Meadway Spital, Bromborough, Cheshire. 367-•0RNOCH BURNS . CLUB : instituted 1912; federated 1927, re affiliated 1938; Treasurer, R. A. Murray, High Street, Dornoch. 369-HAYBOLE 8T. CRISPIN's BURNS CLUB : instituted 1896; federated 1927; 50 members; President, John Fisher, J.P.; Secretary, James H. McKie, 31 Glebe Crescent, Maybole; Treasurer, Thomas Conkie, 11 Wellington Street, Maybole. 372-BAILLmSTON JEAN ARMOUR BURNS CLUB : instituted 1926; federated 1927; 50 members; President, Mrs. S. Spence; Secretary, Mrs. J. Chalmers, 75 Nelson Street, Bailieston ; Treasurer, Mrs. J. Gormley, 57 South Scott Street, Baillie~ton. 373-RED HILL BURNS CLUB : instituted 1921 ; federated 1927; 66 mem bers; Secretary and Treasurer, Harry Elliott, 50 Clyde Road, Red Hill, Natal, South Africa. 375-HOLYOKlll CALEDONIAN BURNS CLUB : instituted 1926; federated 1927 ; 54 members; President, Charles Lovie; j;ecretary, Andrew Dougherty, 10 Glen Street, Holyoke, Massachusetts, U.S.A.; Treasurer, James Nicol, 19 Liberty Street, Easthampton, Massa chusetts; Burns Uhronicle official, Treasurer. 377-KILBIRNIE ROSEBERY BURNS CLUB : instituted 1906; federated 1927; 56 members; President, James Hamilton; Secretary, James McCartney, 4 Craigton Road, Kilbirnie; Treasurer, William Shaw, Corra Linn, Kilbirnie; Burns Chronicle officlal, Treasurer. 378--BDINBURGH DISTRICT BURNS CLUBS' ASSOCIATION : instituted 1925; federated 1927; 9 clubs; President, Jo~m Mc Vie;. Secretary, Fred. J. Belford, M.A., 3 Park Grove, L1berton, Edmburgh, 9; Treasurer, Gavin W. Brown, 16 Mertoun Place, Edinburgh. 379-THB HARTLEPOOLS BURNS CLUB : instituted 1926; federated 1927; re-affiliated 1937; 42 members; Chairman of Committee, M. J. Lackie; Secretary and Treasurer, James Watson, 6 Shakespeare Avenue, West Hartlepool. 380-FALKIRK CROSS IEYS BURNS CliUB : instituted 1926; federated 1927 ; 48 members; President, Thomas Robertson; Secretary, Finl~ M:cRae, 3 Griffiths Street, Falkirk; Treasurer, John Rae, 79 Main Street, Bainsford, Falkirk. 381---0RBATBR NEW YORK MA!IONIC BURNS CLUB : instituted 1927; feder ated 1927; 100 members; President, Robert Graham; Secretary aad Treasurer, John Watson, 1960 50th Street, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A. BURNS CLUBS AND SCOTl'ISH SOCIETIES Ill 383-GBHNOCX R.N.r.11'. Hll:ArBE:a BURNS CLUB : instituted 1912; feder ated 1927; 50 members; President, James K. Martin; Secretary, 4rthur C. E. Lewis, Vallorbe, 16 Rodney Road, Gourock; Treasurer, Michael Ik>cherty, 15 Robertson Street, Greenock. 384-PUMPHERSrGN BONNIE DOON BURNS ~UB : instituted 1926. federated 1927; 85 members; President, Jamee Dunlop; Secretary; Wm. Gowans, 91 East Road, Pumpherston, Midcalder; Treasurer Thos. Stenhouse, New Rows, Pumpherston, Midcalder. ' 387-MARY CAMPBELL BURNS CLUB (CAMBUSLANG) : instituted 1927; federated 1927; 50 members; President, Mrs. Mary Thomson; Secretary, Mrs. D. M'Geoch, 5 Graham Avenue, Halfway, Cambuslang; Treasurer, Mrs. H. Hughes, 5 Gateside Buildings, Halfway, Cambualang; Burns Chronicle official, Treasurer. 388-KYLE LADIES' BURNS CLUB : instituted 1927; federated 1927; President, Mrs. Alex. Neilson; Secretary, Mrs. James Anderson 200 Springhill Road, Shotts; Treasurer, Mrs. William Roy' Springhill Buildings, Shotts. ' 390-MEIKLE EARNOCK JOLLY BEGGARS BURNS CLUB : instituted 1924; federated 1928; 32 members; President, Joseph Hillis; Secretary, Jacob Hodge, 31 Limekilnburn Road, Quarter; Treasurer, James Robb, 4 N ewlands Drive, Eddlewood, Hamilton; Burns Chronicle official, Treasurer. 391-WATERBURY BURNS CLUB : inatituted 1885; federated 1928; 54 members; President, William Boyd; Secretary, Robert Currie, 80 Pine Street, Waterbury, Conn., U.S.A.; Treasurer, James Littlejohn, 327 East Mam Street, Waterbury. 392-WH111'11'LEr BURNS CLUB : instituted 1920; fedPrated 1928; 34 mem bers; President, D. M. W. Ralston; Secretary, Wm. S. Strachan, 9 North Bute Street, Coatbridge; Treasurer, John A. W. Kirk, 6 Bank Street, Coatbridge. 393-ANNAN LADIES' BURNS CLUB : inatituted 1928.; federated 1928; 150 members; President, Mrs. J. Kirkpatrick; Secretary, Mrs. w. Simpson, 2 Thorburn Crescent, Annan; Treasurer, Mrs. .A. Irving, 9 Water~oot Road, Annan. 398-coLINrON BURNS CLUB : instituted 1907; federated 1928; 50 mem bers; President, J. Macphail Cant; Interim Secretary, John Millar, Torduff, 198 Colinton Road, Edinburg~ 11; Treasurer, William Swanson, The Garage, Colinton ·iram Terminus, Colinton, Edinburgh, 13. 399-sr. RINGANS BURNS CLUB : instituted 1920 ; federated 1928 ; 90 members; President, Wm. Nimmo; Secretar:v,_ George Newstead, 22 Polmadise Avenuii. Stirling; Treasurer, Wm. OOok, 47 Bore stone Creecent, St. Ninians. ' 400-HADDING'.rON BURN.S CLUB : instituted 1889 ; federated 1928 : 84 membe1·s; Preeident, John Cummin~; Secretary and Treasurer, David C. Young, Dunpender, Haddmgton. 112 BURNS CLUBS AND SCOTTISH SOCIETIES 400-mGBLAND MARy LADIES. BUB.NB CLUB : instituted 1928; federated 1928; 36 membe!'s; President, Mrs. James Reid; Secretary, Mre. A. Guthrie, 29 Woodhead Street, High Valleyfield, Newmills, Fife; Treasurer, Mrs. James Nicol, 2 Valleyfield Avenue, High valleyfield. I 403-FB.ABEBJIUBGH BURNS CLUB : federated 1928; Secretary, A. S. Kelman, Saltoun Chambers, Fraserburgh. 4~ALEDONIAN SOCIETY OF SHEFFIELD : instituted 1822; federated 1929; 790 members; President, Dr. James Mackinnon, D.S.O.; Secre tary, W. Gregor McGregor, 49 Nether Edge Road, Sheffield, 7; Treasurer, Albert Forsyth, 91 J>inslone Street, Sheffield, 1. 406-DUBLIN BENEVOLENT SOCIETY OF ST. ANDREW : federated 1929; 203 members; President, John Russell, F.C.A.; Secretary, W. Morrison Milne, 4 Cremore Road, Glasnevin, Dublin; Treasurer, J. Hubbard Clark, J.P .. , Inverclyde, Iona Park, Dublin. 409-STENHousEMUIB. AND DISTRICT PLOUGH BURNS CLUB : instituted 1929; federated 1929; 110 members; President, John C. Reid; Secretary and Treasurer, John McMahon, 122 King Street, Stenhousemuir, Larbert. 412--GARY BURNS CLUB : instituted 1928; federated 1929; 34 members; President, Wallace Bache; Secretary, George H. Knight, 829 Johnston Street, Gary, Indiana, U.S.A.; Treasurer, Wilfrid Bell, 765 Virgina Street, Gary. 413----ST. ANDREW SOCIETY OF SAN FRANCISCO : instituted 1863; federated 1929; 200 members; President, John Craig; Secretary, Thomas C. Hunter, 414 Mason Street, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.; Treasurer, Wm. R. Carswell, 2076 Oakland Avenue, Pudmont Road, San Francisco. 414-DALKEJTH FOUNTAIN BURNS CLUB : instituted 1928; federated 1929; President, William M. Linton; Secretary, W. M. Linton, Relief Cottage, Dalkeith, Midlothian; Treasurer, Charles Dickson, 5 Elmfield Park, Dalkeith, Midlothian. ' 417-BUB.NLEY AND DISTRICT CALEDONIAN SOCIETY : instituted 1924; federated 1929; 71 members; President, Dr. J. B. Aitken; Secretary, T. P. Butcher, 12 Rossendale Avenue, Burnley, Lanes.; Treasurer, Mrs. Horner, 21 Rosehill Avenue, Burnley. 418-SXEGNESS SCOTTISH SOCIETY : instituted 1928; federated 1929. 68 members; President, Major F. Conway Gordon ; Secretary 'and Treasurer, J. Macdonald, Moray Hotel, North Parade, Skegness Lincolnshire. ' 421-ABROCllAR AND TARBET BURNS CLUB : instituted 1929; federated 1929; Secretary and Treasurer, Rev. R. D. E. Stevenson The Manse, Tarbet, Dumbartonshire. · ' 424-cAMBUELANG TAM o' BRANTER BURNS CLUB : instituted 1928; feder ated 1929; 20 members; President, George Johnstone; Secretary George McLellan, 33 Park Street, Cambuslang; Treasurer, Joru;_ Fowler, 35 Westburn Road, Cambuslang. BURNS CLUBS AND SCOTTISH SOCIETIES 113 426-sAuCHIE BURNS CLUB : instituted 1929; federated 1929; 50 members; President, James Wallace, J.P.; Secretary and Treasurer, George Galloway, 56 Main Street, Sauchie, Alloa. 427-GOREBRIDGE GLENCAIRN BURNS CLUB : instituted 1928; federated 1929; 50 members; President, David Scott; Secretary, James Munro, Deanbank Cottage, Vogrie Road, Gorebridge, Midl-Othian; Treasurer, Hugh Bernard, 36 Birkingside, Gorebridge. 36 mem 428-cHn.YSTON BURNS CLUB : instituted 1924; federated 1929; bers; President, David Jackson; Secretary and Treasurer, Allan McPherson, 72 Cumbernauld Road, Muirliead, Chryston. 429--BATHGATE JOLLY BEGGARS BURNS CLUB : instituted 1928; federated 1929; 40 members; President, Capt. James Ritchie; Secretary and Treasurer, Patrick Glen, 41 Torphichen Street, Bathgate. ; 103 430-GOUROCK BURNS CLUB : instituted 1887; federated 1929 members; President, George Webster; Secretary, F. T. Tarbet, 11 Bath Street, Gourock; Treasurer, W .. A. Thomson, Union Bank of Scotland, Gourock. 20 431-INVERKIP BURNS CLUB : instituteq 1907; federated 1929; members; President, George Wylie; Secretal"y, George R. Wylie, Clydeview, Inverkip; Treasurer, John R. McFarlane, Sea View, Inverkip. 1930; 432-WINCHBURGH LEA RIG BURNS CLUB : instituted 1930; federated 110 members; President, Alexander Taylor; Secretary, Robert Findlay.J... 72 Main Street, Winchburgh, West Lothian; Treasurer, James m.cPhie, Canalside, Winchburgh, West Lothian. federated 1930; ~AYR TAM o' SHANfER BURNS CLUB : instituted 1906; President, Alex. F. Dunbar; Secretary and Treasurer, Henry Baxter, 11 Rozelle Cottages, Maybole Road, Ayr. 1930; 436-WALNEY JOLLY BEGGARS LADIES' BURN.S CLUB : instituted federated 1930; 60 members; President, Mrs. Jackson; Secretary, Mrs. McMahon, 8 Hastings Street, Walney, Barrow-in-Furness; Treasurer, Mrs. McGibbon, 38 Bristol Street, Walney. LADIES' BURNS CLUB, NO. 1 : instituted 1930; federated 437-DUMFRIES D. 1930; 122 members; Presidept, Mrs. Hanby; Secretary, Mrs. Bell, 52 Aldermanhill Road, Dumfries; Treasurer, Mrs. McCrorie, "Burns House," Dumfries. AND DISTRICT CALEDONIAN ASSOCIATION : instituted 438--CBESTERFIELD J. 1910; federated 1930; 260 members; President, Kenneth B.A. (Lond.); Secretary, Mrs. M. Nicholson, 3 Gold Nicholson, W. well House, Goldwell Hill, Chesterfield ; Treasurer, Mrs. F. Broom, 12 Whitecotes Lane, Chesterfield. 441-TEMPLE BURNS CLUB : instituted 1930; federated 1930; 40 members; Alexander Neilson; Secretary, Mrs. M. Tennant, 33 President, 21 Easter Road, Dykehead, Shotts; Treasurer, John Canning, Bon Accord Crescent, Dykehead, Shotts. 442-PBNICUIK AND DISTRICT BURNS CLUB : instituted 1929; federated 1930; 100 members; President, William M. Watt; Secretary and Treasurer, Richard M. Young, Eskvale Cottages, Penicuik. H 114 BURNS CLUBS AND SCOTTISH SOCIETIES 443-VICTORIA BURNS CLUB : instituted 1922; federated 1931; 142 mem bers; President, Edward M. Whyte; Secretary, Harry Wood, 2058 Neil Street, Victoria., B.C., Canada; Treasurer, John Grant, 460 Moss Street, Victoria. 444-sw ANSEA AND WEST w ALES CALEDONIAN SOCIETY : federated 1931 ; 250 members ; President, Hon. Laurence P. Methuen ; Secretary, Alex. Kinloch Miller, 49a Bryn Road, Swall.!lea; Treasurer, K. J. Stewart, 10 Woodlands Terrace, Swansea.. 445----BUXTON CALEDONIAN SOCIETY BURNS CLUB : instituted 1927; federated 1931 ; 71 members; President, Gilbert Johnston, M.A. ; Secrstary and Treasurer, J. H. Gilfillan, Lyndrum, Park Road, Buxton. 446--HEREFORDSHIRE BURNS CLUB : instituted 1910; federated 1931; 81 members; President, Dr. J. R. Bulman; Secretary and Treasurer, J. S. Wilcox, 258 Ledbury Road, Hereford. 449--WELLINGTON (N.z.) BURNS CLUB : instituted 1931; federated 1931; 120 members; President, R. H. Nimmo; Secretary and Treasurer, A. F. Dickson, 24 Evans Bay Road, Wellington, E.1, N .z. 452---AUCHTERDERRAN BONNIE JEAN BURNS CLUB : instituted 1929; federated 1931; 50 members; President, Mrs. Burns; Secretary, Mrs. G. Ritchie, 18 Ba.lgreddie Park, Ca.rdenden, Fife; Treasurer, Mrs. Murdoch, 35 Denfield Gardens, Ca.rdenden. 453-NORTH-EASTERN BURNS CLUB OF PHILADELPHIA LADms' AUXILIARY : instituted 1927; federated 1931; 62 members; President, Mrs. Mary Wylie; Secretary, E. Hunter, 2033 68th .Avenue, Phila delphia, Pa., U.S.A.; Treasurer, Mrs. Margaret Wallace, 6550 Hegerman Street, Philadelphia.. 454--ROTHERHAM AND DISTRICT SCOTTISH ASSOCIATION : instituted 1924 ; federated 1931; 160 members; President, Dr. W. Crera.r; Secre tary, Robert Reid, Tankersley House, Broom Lane, Rotherham; Treasurer, J. C. MacKenzie, Harmby, Boswell Street, Rother ham. 456--TROON MASONIC BURNS CLUB : instituted 1931; federated 1932; 97 members; President, Edward G. Galt; Secretary, Malcolm H. Black, 13 Muirhead Crescent,· Troon; Treasurer, David McClure, 911! East Crescent, Troon. 457-KINGLASSIE LADms' HIGHLAND MARY NO. 2 BURNS CLUB : instituted 1932; federated 1932; 11 members; President, Mrs. Dewar; Secretary, Mrs. W. Driscoll, 91 Milna. Crescent, Kingla.ssie, Fife; Treasurer, Mrs. J. Luth, 37 Milna Crescent, Kinglassie. 458-STONEHAVEN (FATHERLAND) BURNS CLUB : federated 1932; 100 mem bers; President, Harcourt L. Christie, M.A. ; Secretary and Treasurer, A. Hardie, 2 Fetteresso Terrace, Stonehaven. 459--cowDENBEATH WEST END JOLLY BEGGARS BURNS CLUB : instituted 1931 ; federated 1932; 44 members; President, Wm. Duncan; Secretary, Peter Falconer, 47 Primmer Place, Cowdenbeath, Fife; Treasurer, R. Walker, 6 Glenburn Place, Cowdenbeath; Burns Uhronicle official, John Bell. BURNS CLUBS AND SCOTTISH SOCIETIES 115 461-LEICESTER CALEDONIAN SOCIETY : instituted 1877 j federated 1932 j 240 members; President, James Hobbs; Secretacy1 Donald Cum ming, 188 Branstone Lane, Leicester; Treasurer, W. A. Campbell, 106 Colchester Road, Leicester. 462--0HELTENHAM SCOTTlSH SOCIETY : instituted 1930 j federated 1932 j 180 members; President, Dr. David Clow; Secretary, Mrs. J. E. Webster, Handley Cross, Cheltenham; Treasurer, A. Milne, Fairlands, Leckhampton Road, Cheltenham. 464-YAKIMA VALLEY BURNS CLUB : federated 1932 j President, Wm. Tweedie; Secretary, Archie Wilson, 1211 Cherry Avenue, Yakima, Washington, U.S.A.; Treasurer, Thos. Jackson. 466--DYKEHEAD AFTON WATER LADIES' BURNS CLUB : instituted 1932; federated 1932; 36 members; President, Mrs. J. Scullion; Secre tary, Mrs. H. Kerr, 9 Nithsdale Street, Dykehead, Shotts; Treasurer, Mrs. A. Stewart, 153 Shotts Kirk Road, Dykehead, Shotts. 467-GILBERTFIELD HIGHLAND MARY LADIES' BURNS CLUB : instituted 1932; federated 1932; 50 members; President, Mrs. E. Russell, J.P.; Secretary, Mrs. Hardie, 7 Dechmont Place, Lightburn, Cambuslang; Treasurer, Mrs. Napier. 468-HIGH BLANTYRE BURNS CLUB : instituted 1932; federated 1932; 5~ members; President, Hugh Gibson; Secretary, James McLean, 374 Main Street, High Blantyre; Treasurer, Thomas Crane, 6 Douglas Street, High Blantyre. 469-DENNY CROSS BURNS CLUB : instituted 1932; federated 1932 j 37 members; President, Joseph Graham; Secretary, Thomas Bryson, Holehouse Farm, Denny; Treasurer, William Bryson, Wallace Crescent, Denny. 470-sT. GILES BURN.S CLUB : instituted 1923 j federated 1932 j 120 members; President, W. Scott; Secretary: and Treasurer, Bailie Robert Farquhar, Ingleside, West Road, Elgin. 471-ROSE OF GRANGE BURNS CLUB : federated 1932; Secretary and Treasurer, John Lapsley, 7 Dugald Stewart Avenue, Bo'ness. ·472-RENFRE\••sumE ASSOCIATION OF BURNS CLUBS : instituted 1929; federated 1932; 41 members; President, R. Elder Cunningham; Secretary and Treasurer, Arthur C. E. Lewis, Vallorbe, 16 Rodney Road, Gourock. 475-TWEEDDALE LADIES' BURNS CLUB : instituted 1932; federated 1933; SO. members; President, Mrs. C. C. Turnbull; Secretary, Mrs. E. Smith, 21 St. Andrew's Road, Peebles; Treasurer, Mrs. G. Davidson, Bridgegate. 476--BORDER CITIES BURNS CLUB : instituted 1929 j federated 1933 j 115 members; President, James Clark; Secretary and Treasurer Alexander Barron, 462 Hall Avenue, Windsor, Ontario, Canada.' 116 BURNS CLUBS AND SCOTTISH SOCIETIES 477-BELLAHOUSTON BURNS CLUB : instituted 1929; federated 1933; 94 members; President, R. Douglas Wellwood; Secretary and Trea surer, Robert S. Frame, 207 Paisley Road West, Glasg<>w, S.W.1; Bums Chronicle official, Mrs. William Dick, 89 Kenmure Street, Glasgow, S.1. 478-BONNIE DOON LADIES' BURNS CLUB : instituted 1933; federated 1933; 60 members; President, Mrs. T. Pryde; Secretary, :t.lrs. T. Penman, 96 Blair Street, Kelty, Fife; Treasurer, Mrs. I. Morris, Grievesland Terrace, Kelty. 479--QUEEN OF THE SOUTH LADIES' BURNS CLUB : . instituted 1932; federated 1933; 100 members; President, Mrs. R. Wright; Recretary, Mril. J. Clark, 64 Friars Venne!, Dumfries; Treasurer, Mrs. 0. Ross, 5 Crathie Avenue, Dumfries; Burns Chronicle official, Mrs. A. Martin, College Street, Dumfries. 480-GLENCAffiN BURNS CLUB OF CORNWALL: mstituted 1923; federated 1933; 100 members; President, The Lord Semphill; Secretary, J. A. Donald, Glencairn, .Falmouth; Treasurer, W. Cameron, Popplewell Royal Hotel, Falmouth. 481-LONDON AYRSHIRE SOCIETY : instituted 1897; federated 1933; President, Alexander Belch; Secretary, Robert Kean, Romney House, Tufton Street, London, S.W.1; Treasurer, John A. D. Paton, 105 Canfield Gardens, Hampstead, London, N.W.6. 484--SHEDDENS LADIES' BURNS CLUB : instituted 1931; federated 1933; 15 members; President, Mrs. Jack; Secretary, Mrs. Donaldson, 8 McEwan Street, Glasgow, E.1; Treasurer, Mrs. Paul. 486-JEAN ARMOUR BURNS CLUB : federated 1934; President, Mra. Duffin; Secretary, Mrs. J. Duffy, Sunnybraes Terrace, Steelend, Saline, by Dunfermline ; Treasurer, Mrs. Pallan. 492--HARROW AND DISTRICT CALEDONIAN SOCIETY : instituted 1928; federated 1934; 271 members; President, C. P. L. Anderson; Secretary, James Taylor, B.Sc., F.R.I.C., 108 Northumberland Road, North Harrow, Middlesex; Treasurer, A. G. Esslemont, 114 Kenton J:,ane, Harrow. 493-AKRON BURNS CRONIES : instituted 1934; federated 1934; 22 mem bers; President, Mrs. Peter F. Young; Secretary, Mrs. George Bosomworth, 81 Sand Run Road, Akron, 13, Ohio, U.S. .A.; Treasurer, Mrs. James Youngson, 453 S. Firestone Boulevard, .Akron. 494-:MOTHERWELL UNITED SERVICES BURNS CLUB : federatecl 1934; 60 members; President, Robert K. Hamilton; Secretary, Geoffrey Plumb, 41 Waverley Terrace, Motherwell; Treasurer, John Ormiston, Glencairn Street, Motherwell. 495-BAGHDAD CALEDONIAN SOCIETY : instituted 1922; federated 1934; 70 members·; President, J. Gilroy Baillie; Secretary, H. Camp bell, c / o Stephen Lynch & Co., Ltd., Baghdad, Iraq ; Treasurer, W. T. Kellie, c/o The Imperial Bank of Iran, Baghdad, Iraq. llURNS CLUBS AND SCOTTISH SOCIETIES 117 '196---THE .AULD HOOSE BURNS CLUB : instituted 1931; federated 1934; President, Ex-Provost Kinninmonth; Secretary and Tl'll&surer, Thomas Chalmers, 1 Rossend Park, Burntisland, Fife. 497-ST. ANDREW BURNS CLUB {WELLINGTON, N.z.) : instituted 1934; federated 1934; 160 members; President, H. McWhinnie; Secretary, Miss B. Clark, 282 Lambton Quay, Wellington, New Zealand; 'freasurer, C. G. Cattanach. 498-l'LINT BURNS CLUB : inatituted 1931; federated 1934; 65 members;- · President, Alexander Burnside; Secretary, Jos. M. Graham, 2617 Sloan Street, Flint, 4, Mich., U.S.A.; Treasurer, Geo. Hill, 702 Mason Street, Flint; l:Jurns Vhronicle official, Geo. B. MacGregor, 1049 Chevrolet. Avenue, b'lint. 500--NBW CUMNOCK BURNS CLUB : instituted 1924; federated 1934; 60 members; President, A. W. Mackay, B.Sc.; Secretary and Trea surer, Dr. William Edgar, Oakdene, New Cumnock, Ayrshire. 501-GALT BURNS CLUB : federated 1935; President, A. E. Martin; Sect>etary, H. E. Rosenberg, 70 Birch Street, Galt, Ontario, Canada; Treasurer, F. Hutchison, 13 Barrie Lane, Galt. 603-DUNBLANE BURNS CLUB : instituted 1923; federated 1935; President, John Stewart; Secretary and Treasurer, W. D. Menzies, Com mercial Bank of Scotland, Ltd., Dunblane. 505-WISHAW MASONIC BURNS CLUB : instituted 1935; federated 1935; 100 members; President, Godfrey Hill ; Secretary, Alexander Reid, 95 Netherton Road, Wishaw; Treasurer, Robert Soott, Waverley Drive, Wishaw. ~EAN ARMOUR LADllllS' BURNS CLUB : instituted 1934; federated 1935; 34 members; President, Mrs. Haddow; Secretary, Mrs. J. Moore, 87 Shottskirk Road, Dykehead; Treasurer, Mrs. J. Patterson, Shottskirk Road, Dykehead. 507-BURNS SOCIETY OF Oii.ANGE COUNTY (CALIFORNIA) : instituted 1935; federated 1935; 60 members ; President, Robert L. Brown ; Secretary, Alex. Brownridge, 1414 N. Main Street, Banta Ana, California; Treasurer, B. Jas. Tufiree, Placent.ia. 508-AuCHTERDERRAN BURNS CLUB : instituted 1905; federated 1935; 35 members; President, John Dick; Secretary, Mrs. R. Morgan, 32 16th Street, Bowhill, Cardenden, Fife; Treasurer, Stuart Boyd, Jamphlars Cottage, Cardenden. 509-MOTHERWELL MASONIC BURNS CLUB : instituted 1911; federated 1935; re-affiliated 1945; 400 members; President, John Liddell; Secretary, G. S. Barrie, 125 Camp Street, Motherwell; Treasurer, G. Gray, Brownside Cottage, Manse Road, Motherwell; Burns Vhronicte official, J. Clapperton, Macdonald Street, Motherwell. 510-SCOTTISH DYES RECREATION CLUB : federated 1935; President, Dr. W. G. Hiscock; Secretary, J. A. Robertson, Scottish Dyes Limited, Grangemouth; Treasurer, R. R. Taylor, Scottish Dyes Limited, Grangemouth. ll8 BURNS CLUBS AND SCOTTISH SOCIETIES 511-PBRTH {WEST AUST&ALIA) BURNS CLUB : instituted 1935; federated 1~; 80 members; President, Dr. T. C. Boyd, M.A.; Secretary, Mrs. Jessie Reid, 166 Seventh Avenue, Maylands, Perth, Weatern .Australia; Treasurer, Mrs. M. Thompson, 317 'Vincent Street, Leederville, Perth. 513--l'RBDBRICTION SOOIBTY 01' ST. ANDRBW : instituted 1845; federated 1935; Secretary, John H. Malcom, Bank of Nova Scotia, l!'redericton, New Brunswick, Canada. 514-sHANGHAI BURNS CLUB : federated 1936; Secretary, William Lyle, 51 Canton Road, Shanghai, China. 515-cALEDONIAN SOCIB'l'Y 01' AllADAN : instituted 1924 ; federated 1936 ; 160 members; President, A. D. Foster; Secretary and Treasurer, William Jamieson, c/o Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., Ltd., Abadan, Iran.. 516-THE AIRTS BURNS CLUB : instituted 1933; federated 1936; 25 members; President, John McLurg; Secretary, Charles Plain, 96 Northfield, Tranent; Treasurer, ;r'homas Davidson, 16 Schaw Road, Prestonpans. 518--YE AULD CRONIES MASONIC BURNS CLUB (CLEVELAND, OHIO) : instituted 1935 ; federated 1936 ; 15 members ; Presidenti._'!'homas H. Reid; Secretary and Treasurer, Thomas Hair, ;QSO East 218th Street, Euclid, Ohio, U.S.A. 520-UDDINGSTON LOCHLIE LADIES' BURNS CLUB : instituted 1935; federated 1936 ; 65 members ; President, Mrs. Sarah McBride; Secretary, Mrs. Isobel Downie, 89 Woodlands Crescent, Bothwell; Treasurer, Mrs. Janet Frew, 7 Russell Place, Tannochside, U ddingston. 521-WARATAH-MAYFIELD BURNS CLUB : instituted 1935; federated 1936; 50 members; President, Angus Smith; Secretary, James McGirvan, 13 Burnett Street, Mayfield West, Newcastle, N.S.W., Australia ; Treasurer, Robert Bell. 522-GLENLEE BURNS CLUB : instituted 1933; federated 1936; 25 mem bers; President, James Allan; Secretary, Murdoch Dyet, 9 Glenlee Street, Burnbank, Hamilton; Treasurer, George Orr, 10 King Street, Burnbank, Hamilton; Burna Chronicle official, James Allan, 58 Sempie Street, Burnbank, Hamilton. 523--HIGHLAND SOCIETY OF NEW SOUTH WALES : instituted 1877; fede rated 1936; 1399 members; President, Captain James R. Patrick; Secretary, James Mackint?~h, Scottish House, 19 Bridge Street, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia; Treasurer, Jas. G. MacKee, C.A., 44 Margaret Street, Sydney. 524-THE CRONIES BURNS CLUB : instituted 1935; federated 1936; 30 members; President, James McDonald; Secretary and Treasurer, A. H. F. Marshall, 8 Moss Street, Paisley. 525-FLINT JOLLY BEGGARS BURNS CLUB : instituted 1935; federated 1937; 24 members; President, William Piercy; Secretary and Treasurer, John R. Hurry, 9271 Neff Road, Rl Clio, Michigan, U.S.A. BURNS CLUBS AND SCOTTISH SOCIETIE8 119 526-DYXEHBAD Till o' SHANTBB BURNS CLUB : instituted 1935 ; federated 1937; 44 members; President, Alex. Rae; SecrPtar~, John C. Weir, 33 Wilson Road, Allanton, Shotts; Treasurer,". Galloway, 47 Manse Road, Stane, Shotts. 528-LOUGHBOROUGH SCOTTISH ASSOCIATION : instituted 1930; federated 1937; 100 members; President, Alderman A. Y. McElvie, J.P.; Secretary, A. D. Telfer, 87 Middleton Place, Loughborough; Treasurer, D. M. Lawson, C.A., Windyridge, Pantain Road, Loughborough. 5~TEE WILLIAM MlTOHELL BURNS CLUB : instituted 1 q37; federated 1937; 27 members; President, William Kilpatrick; Secretary, Robert Cook, 27 Calder Drive, Mossend, Bellshill; Treasurer, James B., Mitchell, 609 Maiii Street, Bellshill. 630-SOUTHERN SCOTTISH COUNTIES BURNS ASSOCIATION : in~titutfld 1937; federated 1937; President, M. H. McKerrow; ~ecretary and Treasurer, William Black, Cardean, Eastfield Road, Dumfries. 531-TEES-SIDE CALEDONIAN SOCIETY : instituted 1899 ; federated 1937 ; 120 members; President, A. H. Merrie; Secretary, Mrs. N. Leslie, Dunottar House, Dunottar A venue, Eaglescliffe, Co. Durham; Treasurer, N. E. Wallace, 3 Grantham Road, Norton, Stockton-on-Tees; Burns Chronicle official, W. G. Wishart, Grangeholme, Imperial Avenue, Norton, Stockton-on-Tees. 532-cESSNOCK BURNS CLUB, N. s. w. : instituted 1935; federated 1937; members; President, J. Tomlinson; Secretary, Walter W. Robertson, 63 Melbourne Street, .Aberdare, Cessnock, New South Wales, .Australia; Treasurer, A. Harrower. 533--l'AULDHOUSE CALEDONIAN BURNS CLUB : instituted 1937; federated 1937; 50 members; President, Douglas Stirrit; Secretary, John Malcolm, 99 Barton Terrace, Fauldhouse; Treasurer, George Malcolm, 21 Scott Place, Fauldhouse. 534-BEDLINGTON BURNS CLUB : instituted 1937; federated 1937; 84 members; President, Jas. W. Pooley; Secretary, S. Pattinson, Stayros, Clovelly Gardens, Bedlington, Northumberland; Trea surer, William Craigs, Sub-Postmaster, Post Office, Barrington, Bedlinirt.<>n Station; Burns Chronicle official, Christopher Bergen, 1 Jubilee Terrace, Bedlington Station. · 536-PLYMOUTH AND DISTRICT CALEDONIAN SOCIETY : inFt1tuted 1927; federated 1937; 70 members; President, R. McDcnald; Secretary, John Common, Cluden, Torland Road, Hartley, Plymouth; Treasurer, John Hutcheson, 37 Lynwood Avenue. J'.farsh Mills, Plymouth. 536-wmTHORN AND DISTRICT BURNS CLUB : instituted 1937; federated 1937; 50 members; President, Rev. Harry Law, M.A.; Secretary, and Treasurer, Thomas Latimer, The Clydesdale Bank Ltd., Whithorn. 537-HARTHILL AND DLSTRICT YOUNG CRONIES' BURNS CLUB : instituted 1935; federated 1937; 30 members; President, Thomas Cunningham; Secretary, Charles Grahame, 18 Dunn Terrace, Harthill, Lanarkshire; Treasurer, David Grahamt>, 2 Muirhead Place, Eastfield, Harthill. 120 BURNS CLUBS AND SCOTTISH SOCIETIES 538--GREENOCK AND DISTRICT BURNS CLUBS' PAST PRESIDENTS' ASSOCIA TION : instituted 1937 ; federated 1937 ; 40 members ; Pre&ident, Neil McGilp; Secretary and Treasurer, Arthur C. E. Lewis, Vallorbe, 16 Rodney Road, Gourock. 540-JOHNSTONE MASONIC BURNS CLUB : instituted 1930 ; federated 1937 ; 95 members; President, David W. Steel; Secretary, Archd. H. Caldwell, 12 MacDowall Street, Johnstone; Treasurer, Hugh McQueen, 12 (Jollier Street, Johnstone. 541-DOUNE AND DISTRICT BURNS CLUB : instituted 1937; federated 1938; 60 members; President, Bailie Masterton; Secretary and Treasurer, Councillor John McTurk, Northlea, Doune. 542-WHITE HEATHER BURNS CLUB : instituted 1936; federated 1938; 76 members; President, James Cowan; Secretary, Archibald Armstrong, 64 Beechworth Drive, Newarthill; Treasurer, William Johnstone, 350 High Street, N ewarthill. ' 543--ABBEY CRAIG BURNS CLUB-: instituted 1935; federated 1938; 30 members ; Secretary, George Marshall, Grocer, Cowane Street, Stirling. 544-ASHINGTON BURNS CLUB : instituted 1890; federated 1938; 40 mem bers; President, J. F. R. Gairdner, M.B., M.R.C.S.; Secretary, J. Hudson Ogle, 7 Ingleby Terrace, Lynemouth, Morpeth; Treasurer, R. Tweddl~. 545-PARRAMATTA AND DISTRICT BURNS CLUB (NEW SOUTH WALES) : instituted 1934; federated 1938; 53 members; President, Colin Cameron; Secretary, John Howie, 12 Gore Street, Parramatta, N.S.,W., Australia; Treasurer, James Rusaell, 10 Isabella Street, North Parramatta. 546-THE OAK BURNS CLUB (HAMILTON) : instituted 1937; federated 1938; 40 members; President, John Kane; Secretary, Robert Ritchie, 43 Bent Road, Hamilton; Treasurer, James Ritchie, 47 Bent Road, Hamilton. 548-LEEDS CALEDONIAN SOCIETY : instituted 1894; federated 1938; 650 members; President, Col. A. D. Sharp, C.B., C.M.G., T.D., F.R.C.S.; Joint-Secretaries, W. Strachan, Drumnagarrow, Wel lington Hill, Shadwell, Leeds, and W. Morgan, 39 Ridge Way, Leeds, 8; Treasurer, H. A. Gordon, Clynder, Creskeld Lane, Bramhope, Leeds. 549--BOTHWELL BONNIE LESLEY LADIES' BURNS CLUB : instituted 1937; federated 1938; 22 members; President, Mrs. Miller; Secretary, Mrs. Mary Duff, 8 Griqua Terrace, Bothwell; Treasurer, Mrs. May Chapman, 16 Croftbank Crescent, Bothwell. 650-DUNOON MARY CAMPBELL BURNS CLUB : instituted 1938; federated 1938; 30 members; President, Kenneth Bruce; Secretary and Treasurer, D. M'Laren, 33 Park Terrace, Dunoon. 551-SCARBOROUGH CALEDONIAN SOCIJ:TY : instituted 1934; federated 1938; 115 members; President, W. Simpson Murdoch Ewing; Secretary, William Littlefair, Warrender, 23 Newlands Park Grove, Scarborough; Treasurer, John Wilson Matthews, 84 St. Thomas Street, Scarborough. BURNS CLUBS AND SCOTTISH SOCIETIES 121 552-FAWSIDlll BURNS CLUB : instituted 1938; federated 1938; 45 members; President, P. Muirhead; Secretary, R. Hamilton, 80 Northfield, Tranent; Treasurer, A. Davanna, Northfield, Tranent; Assistant Treasurer, J. McDonald, c/o Cross Keys Inn. 553---WOLVERHAMPTON AND DISTRICT CALEDONIAN SOCIETY : instituted 1938 ; federated 1938 ; 200 members; President, W. A. Allan ; Secretary, W. R. Robertson, 61 Birches Barn Avenue, Wolver hampoon; Treasurer, J. R. McEwan, 87 Allen Road, Wolver hampton; Burns Chronicle official, Treasurer. 554-BRUCE BURNS CLUB : instituted 1938; federated 1938; 50 members; President, Bailie D. Riley; Secretary, Charles Ross, 4 Back Dykes Terrace, Falkland, Fife; Treasurer, Councillor Charles F. Hawkins, Bruce Arms Hotel, Falkland. 555-HARROGATE ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY : instituted 1921; federated 1938; 90 members; President, Rev. Peter McCall; Secretary and Treasurer, Geo. S. M. Edward, 10 Woodlands Drive, Harrogate, Yorkshire. 556-CALEDONIAN SOCIETY OF DONCASTER : federated 1938; President, Dr. J. M. Hair; Secretary, A. G. Simpson, 33 Harrowden Road, Doncaster; Treasurer, W. Hall, 15 Manor Drive. 557-LADIES' BURNS CLUB OF ATLANTA, GEORGIA : instituted 11137; fede rated 1938; 25 members; President, Mrs. Jo:oiah T. Rose; Secre tary, Mrs J. H. Christian, 846 Penn Avenue, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.; Treasurer, Mrs. Troy Chastain, 2875 Habersham Road, N.W., Atlanta. 558-CAMBUSBARRON BURNS CLUB : instituted 1936; federated 1938; re-affiliated 1943; 40 members; President, Alexander Wilson Johns; Secretar;Y, William Miller, 27 North End Road, Stirling; Treasurer, David Webster, Ellangowan Buildings, Main Street, Cambusbarron. 559-COVENTRY AND DISTRICT CALEDONIAN SOCIETY : federated 1938; 450 members; President, Dr. Stuart Smith; Secretary, Robert S. Miller, 211 Leamington Road, Coventry; Treasurer, William Hill, 9 Queens Road, Coventry. 560--cALEDONIAN SOCIETY, CAWNPORE : instituted 1936; federated 1939; 121 members; President, W. H. Morgan, M.B.E. ; Secretary and Treasurer, W. Taylor, Strowans, Civil Lines, Cawnpore, India. 561-LONDON (ONTARIO) BURNS CLUB : instituted 1939; federated 1939; 58 members; President, Eldon Mitchell; Secretary and Treasurer, Arthur G. Lemery, 113 Elmwood Avenue, London, Ont., Canada. 563---NORFOLK CALEDONIAN SOCIETY : instituted 1934; federated 1939; 100 members; President, Miss J. A. Morton; Secretary, D. A. Grant, 36 Eaton Road, Norwich; Treasurer, W. M. Robson, Dunedin, Hillside A venue, Thorpe, Norwich. 564--,-WINSOME WILLIE BURNS CLUB : instituted 1939; federated 1939; 60 members; President, James Hendry, Sen. ; Secretary and Treasurer, George Douglas, 53 Main Street, Ochiltree; Burns Chronicle official, D. McNeil, Jun., M1ll Street, Ochiltree. 12'l HURNS CLUBS AND SCOTTISH SOCIETIES 565-ROBERr BURNS CmCLE OF NEW YORK : instituted 1934 ; federated 1939; 140 members; Preeident, Robert MacGowan, M.A., D.D.; Secretary, Miss Jessie Strachan, 20-42 32nd Street, Astoria, Long Island, N.Y.; Treasurer, Mrs. J. D. Hughes, 1825 Riverside Drive, New York. 566-SC01"l'ISH SOCIErT AND BURNS CLUB OF AUSrB.ALIA : instituted 1939; federated 1939; 80 members; President, R. M. Baxter; Secretary, Miss M. G. Barclay, 23 Bon Accord Avenue, Boudi Junction, Sydney, N.S.W.; Treasurer, Laurence Macaulay, 109 Elizabeth Street, Sydney. 567-NEwrowN BURNS CLUB (PAISLEY) : instituted 1938; federated 1939; 60 members; President, William Robertson; Secretary William Struthers, 10 New Street, Paisley; Treasurer, Robert Eaglesom, 17 Baron Road, Gallowhill, Paisley; Burns Chronicle oflicial, Robert Scott, 96 Causeyside Street, Paisley. 568-DARVEL BURNS CLUB : federated 1939; President, W. Auld; Secre tary and Treasurer, D. Hamilton, 57 West Main Street, Darvel. 57~HE scorrISH CLANS ASSOCIArION OF LONDON LrD. : instituted 1898 ; federated 1939; President, Wm. Stewart Allan; Secretary, D. Campbell Thomson, Benachie, 35 Medway Gardens, Wembley, Middlesex; Treasurer, G. S. Bonnyman, 27 Munster Road, London, S.W.6. · i11-EDMONrON BURNS CLUB : instituted 1918; federated 1939; 30 members; President, J. Boyd McBride, K.C.; Secretary, Hamish H. Gillespie, 11648 95a Street, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Treasurer, Frank Heron, 7028 lllth Avenue, Edmonton. i72--cm:srEB. CALEDONIAN ASSOCIATION : instituted 1885; federated 1939; 120 members; President, Chas. Cooper; Secretary, Walter Fergusson, 65 Parkgate Road, Chester; Treasurer, Alan M. Miln, St. Werburgh Chambers, Chester. 573-cROFr SPRINGSIDE BURNS CLUB : instituted 1938; federated 1939; 20 members; President, Frank E. Irvine; Secretary, William Williamson, 21 Springhill Terrace, Springside; Treasurer_, Thomas McMillan, 43 Station Drive, Spril1gside; Burns Chronicte· o:llicial, Archie Johnstone, 23 Springhill Terrace, Springside. 574--HOLY'rOWN BLAm ArHOLE BURNS CLUB : instituted 1939; federated 1939; 46 members; President, John Blair; Secretary and Trea surer, Samuel Cowan, 37 Church Street, N ewarthill. 575--WINDSOR (oNrARio) JEAN ARMOUR BURNS CLUB: instituted 1939; federated 1940; 31 members; President, Mrs. Margaret Wilson; Secretary, Mrs. Mary Lauder, 385 Elm Avenue, Windsor, Ontario, Canada; Treasurer, Mrs. Margaret McKenzie, 914 Monmouth Road, Windsor. 576-FORr MATILDA BURNS CLUB : instituted 1934 ; federated 1940; 100 members; President, A. Thomson Wood; Secretary and Treasurer, R. E. Cunningham, Elbar, 19 Madeira Street, Greenock. BURNS CLUBS AND SCOTTISH SOCIETIES 123 577-DALSERF AND CLYDESDALE BURNS CLUB : instituted 1939; federated 1940; 30 members; PresidentJ George Speirs; Secretary, Hayden McFadden, 1 Muir Street, Larkhall; Treasurer, Alex. Wilson, 4 Prospect Drive, Ashgill, Lanarkshire. 578-LANARKSHIRE ASSOCIATION OF BURNS CLUBS : instituted 1924; federated 1942; 43 clubs; President, James Mathew; Secretary, Mrs. Mary Thomson, 21 Gilbertfield Road, Cambus lang; Treasurer, James McLean, 374 Main Street, High Blantyre. 579-BATHGATE TAM o' sHANTER BURNS CLUB : instituted 1941 ; federated 1942; 45 members; President, Simon Terrett; Secretary, Jasper Thomson, 18 Wallace Road, Bathgate; Treasurer, Charles Aitchison, c/ o Barr, Bathgate Inn, George Street, Bathgate; Burns Chronicle official, Robert Young, 36 Edinburgh Road, Bathgate. 580---CUMBRAE BURNS CLUB : instituted 1896; federated 1942; 101 members; President, Alexander Findlay; Secretary, Jack Barclay, 17 Crosbie Street, Glasgow, N.W.; Treasurer, Thomas Shields, 29 Glasgow Street, Millport. 681-CUMBERNAULD AND DISTRICT BURNS CLUB : instituted 1943; fede rated 1943 ; 35 members; President, Daniel Millar ; Secretary, William Fergus, 65 Roadside, Cumbernauld; Treasurer, James Goodwin, Masonic Lodge, Cumbernauld. 582-HIGGINSNEUK BURNS CLUB : instituted 1942; federated 1943; 22 members; President, George Jenkins; Secretary, Matthew Watson, 43 Quarrolhall Crescent, Blackmill, Falkirk; Treasurer, Joseph Forsyth, 22 Bothkinnar Road, Carronshore, Falkirk. 583--LOCHGELLY PIPE BAND BURNS CLUB : instituted 1943; federated 1943; 40 members; President, R. Garmony; Secretary, George Findlay, 17 Walker Street, Lochgelly; Treasurer, J. C. Watson, 4 Bain Street, Lochgelly. 584---coRBY BURNS CLUB : instituted 1943; federated 1943; 40 members; President, W. McShane; Secretary, D. Marrs, 8 Kelvin Grove, Corby, Northants; Treasurer, George Marwood, 108 Stephenson Way, Corby; Burn• Chronicle official, J. Black, 85 West Glebe Road, Corby. 585---QUEEN's PARK CLARINDA BURNS CIRCLE : instituted ; federated 1943; 159 members; President, F. P. McLennan; Secretary and Treasurer, Wm. Y'Dung, 50 Deanwood Avenue, Glasgow, S.4. 686-BARRHEAD BURNS CLUB : instituted 1942; federated 1943; 35 members; President, Tom Begg; Secretary, John Dalziel, 35 Commercial Road, Barrhead; Treasurer, Andrew Allan, 7 Paisley Road, Barrhead; Burns Chronicle official, Robert Duncan, Cross Arthurlie Street, Barrhead. 587-BUDHILL A:lfD SPRINGBOIG BURNS CLUB : instituted 1943; federated 1943; 20 members; President, Peter Brewster; Beere~, Alex ander Crum, 44 Threestonehill Avenue, Glasgow, E.2; Treasurer, John Scott, 73 Budhill Avenue, Glasgow, E.2; Burns Chronicle official, President. l24 BURNS CLUBS AND SCOTTISH 80CIETIES ~ An.As rill o' SHANTBB. BURNS CLUB : instituted 1943; federated 1943; 25 members; President, Thomas Russell; Secretary, .Andrew Cunningham, 56 Mount Pleasant, Armadale; Treasurer, John Smart, 66b West Main Street, Armada.le. 589-sOLWAY BURNS CLUB : federated 1944; President, O. Gibbs; Secre tary and Treasurer, G. Beattie, 5 Hallmeadow Place, .Annan. 590-cRAIGS CRONIES BURNS CLUB, STIRLING : instituted 1935 ; federated 1944; 40 members; Presiaent, James Gilmour; Secretary and Trea11urer, Wm. Sewell, 8 George Street: Stirling. . 591-LUGAR WArBR BURNS CLUB : instituted 1944; federated 1944; 60 members; President, David Geekie; Secretary, James Fleming, Jun., 14 Craigston Holm, Lugar; Treasurer, Duncan Brodie, Brick Row, Lugar; Burn3 ()hronicle official, John Lindsay, Craigston Holm, Lugar. 592-11ENWHAr BURNS CLUB : federated 1944; President, David Dun• muir; Secretary, Andrew Galloway, 112 Benwhat, .Ayr; Treasurer, William McFadzean, 114 Benwhat, Ayr. 593-BARRMILL JOLLY BEGGARS BURNS CLUB : instituted 1944; federated 1944; 30 members; President, John Cashmore; Secretary, Edward B, Anderson, The Blocks, Barrmill, Beith; Treasurer, William McBeth, McHardy Crescent, Barrmill, Beith; Burns Chronicle official, Peter Connelly, Barrmill, Beith. 594----'.L'HE BURNS CLUB OF CUYAHOGA COUNrY, CLEVELAND, OHIO: insti tuted 1934; federated 1944; 72 members; President, John Wintour; Secretary and Treasurer, Mrs. Donald C. Noble, 146fi E. llOth Street, Cleveland, 6, Ohio, U.S.A. 595-ALLANrON " BRIG o' DOON .. LADIES' BURNS CLUB : instituted 1944; federated 1944; 58 members; President, Mrs. Robert McCue; Secretary, Mrs. Marion Forsyth, 6 Houldsworth Crescent, Allan ton, by Shotts; Trea11urer, Mrs. Emily Buchanan, 2 Springhead Road, Allanton, by Shotts. 596-GLAISNOCK BURNS CLUB: instituted 1944; federated 1944; 38 members; President, Robert Boyd; Secretary: and Treasurer,· James McKechnie, 18 .Glaisnock Street, Cumnock; Burna ()hronicle official, James Gordon, Keir Hardie Hill, Cumnock. 597-BURNS SOCIErY OF rHE CITY OF NEW YORK : instituted 1870; fede rated 1944; 100 members; Preaident, Edward B. Mackenzie; Secretary, Robert Graham, 105 East 22nd Street, New York 10, N.Y., U.S.A.; Treasurer, James M. Forbes, 2 Park .Avenue, New York 16, N.Y. 598-FORrH JOLLY BEGGARS BURNS CLUB : instituted 1944; federated 1944; 30 members; President, Richard Friel; Secretary, James Douglas, 25 The Neuk, Forth, Lanarkshire; Treasurer, William Hamilton, 19 The N euk;, Forth. 599-LARKHALL RAPLOCH BURNS CLUB : instituted 1944; federated 1944; 54 members; President, James Craw; Secretary, William Dickson, 13 .Albert Drive, Larkhall; Treasurer, J. S. Simpson, Machan Road, Larkhall. BURNS CLUBS AND SCOTTISH SOOIETIES 125 60G-MILLERHILL BURNS CLUB : instituted 1944; federated 1944; 30 members; President, Andrew Davidson; Secretary, David Moffat, 6 Dauderhall, Dalkeith; Treasurer, Andrew Davidson. 601-oALEDONIAN SOCIETY OF PALESTIN11l: federated 1944; Secretary, H. V. Gibson, P.O. Box 4, Haifa, Palestine. 602-THORNTREE BURNS CLUB : instituted 1943; federated 1945; 21 members; President, Abraham Brown; Secretary, George Thom son, 52 High Street, Cockenzie; Treasurer, Adam Peden, Crown Square, Prestonpans. 603-THE TOWER BURNS CLUB, TRANENT : instituted 1938; federated 1945; 40 members; President, Capt. Thinald Scrimgoour; Secretary and Treasurer, William Wood, 27 Muirpark Terrace, Tranent; Burns Chronicle official, President. 604-BELLSHILL BURNS CLUB, NO. 1 : instituted 1925; federated 1945; 70 members; President, .Alexander Bassett; Secretary, Robert Thomson, 76 North Road, Bellshill ; Treasurer, Samuel Cowan, 26 North Road, Bellshill. 6Cl5---0RAIGMARK AND' BURNTON BURNS CLUB : instituted 1944; federated 1945; 60 members; President, Robert Findlay; Secretary, George Dougan, 58 Burnton, Dalmellington, Ayrshire; Treasurer, William Henderson, 24 Burnton, Dalmellington. 606---ROCKINGHAM BURN.$ CLUB : instituted 1945; federated 1945; 40, members ; President, William Montgomery ; Secretary and Treasurer, S. Jeffrey, 96 Westfields Road, Corby, Northampton shire. 607-HADRIAN BURNS CLUB : instituted 1945; federated 1945; 43 mem bers; President, A. McKay; Secretary, A. Sneddon, 37 March lands Avenue, Bo'ness; Treasurer, A. Wright, 21 Cadzow Cres cent, Bo'ness. 608--RICCARTON WALLACE BURNS CLUB : instituted 1945; federated 1945; 54 members; President, Joseph Carrick; Secretary, Alexander Livingston, 41 Caprington Avenue, Kilmarnock; Treasurer, John Paterson, 33 Gilmour Street, Kilmarnock. 609--SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS ASSOCIATION {AYRSHIRE BRANCH) BURNS, CLUB : instituted 1945; federated 1945; 200 members; President, Thomas Rodger; Secretary and Treasurer, Robert Erskine, 50• Mackinlay Place, Kilmarnock. 610-THE " ROYAL ARCH " BURNS CLUB : instituted 1945; federated 1945; 75 members; President, Thomas Dickie; Secretary, George J. Barr, 74 Gelston Street, Glasgow, E.2; Treasurer, William Steele, 5 Rowchester Street, Glasgow. 611-BLACKRIDGE, WESTRIGG AND' DISTRICT BURN.s CLUB : instituted 1945; 30 members; President, Robert McLauchlan; Secretary, Walter Sneddon, 58 Bedlormie Drive, Blackridge; Treasurer, James. .Adamson, 32 Bedlormie Drive, Blackridge; Burns Chronicle· official, Angus McMillan, 66 Bedlormie Drive, Blackridge. 126 BURNS CLUBS AND SCOTTISH SOCIETIES 612-TORRANCE MASONIC SOCIAL AND BURNS CLUB : instituted 1928; federated 1945; 55 members; President, C. 0. J. Cook; Secretary, Andrew Sherriff, 5 Viola Place, Torrance; Treasurer, John Gibson, 5 Campsie Road, Torrance. 613-TB.ANRNT NO. 1 BURNS CLUB : instituted 1945; federated 1945; 32 members; President, R. Dow; Secretary, James Grant, 32 New Row, Tranent; Treasurer, John Herk011, 17 Lammermuir Terrace, Tranent. 614-BELLSHILL CALEDONIAN BURNS CLUB : instituted 1945; federated 1945; 50 members; President, David Anderson; Secretary, James McCart, 213 Motherwell Road, Bellshill; Treasurer, John Wyper, 50 Glebe Street, Bellshill. 615-WEST LOTHIAN DISTRICT BURNS ASSOCIATION : instituted 1945; federated 1945; 10 clubs; President, Ex-Provost Thomas Russell; Secretary, Robert Findlay, 12 Main Street, Winchburgh; Treasurer, Robert S. Brodie, c/o Meikle, 15 Academy Street, Bathgate. . 616-KmKCONNEL AND SANQUHAR BURNS CLUB : instituted 1917 ; fede rated 1945 ; 56 members ; President, William .Black ; Secretary and Treasurer, John Loan, 59 High Street, Sanquhar. ALPHABETICAL LIST OF CLUBS ON TCIE ROLL No. No. 515 Abadan 549 Bothwell Bouie Lesley Ladies 543 Abbey Craig 76 Brechin 40 Aberdeen 49 Bridgeton 20 Airdrie 120 Bristol 516 Airts 554 Bruce 493 Akron 5ti7 Budhill and Springboig 2 Alexandria 331 Buffalo 595 Allan ton '' Brig o' Doon " Ladies 356 Burnbank 252 Alloway 417 Burnley 309 Annan 295 Burns House 393 -- Ladies 112 Burns Howff 82 Arbroath 445 Buxton 421 Arrochar & Tarbet 355 Calcutta 544 Ashington 4 Callander 238 Atlanta 558 Cambu.barron 557 -- Ladies 424 Cambuslang Tam o' clhanter 588 Atlas Tam o' Shanter 207 -- Wingate 508 Auchterderran 71 Carlisle 452 -- Bonnie Jean 34 Carrick 496 Auld Hoose 365 Catriue 566 Australia, Scot. Soo. of 560\Cawnpore 275 Ayr 532 Cessnock 435 -- Tam o' Shanter 161 Charleston 192 Ayrshire Assoc. 171 Chattanooga 495 Baghdad 462 Cheltenham 157 Baillieston Caledonian 572 Chester 372 -- Jean Armour 438 Chesterfield 218 Bannockburn 428 Chryston 586 Barrhead 278 Clan Stewart 593 Barrmill Jolly Beggars 398 Colinton 363 Barrow 208 Colorado Springs 429 Bathgate Jolly Beggars 584 Corby 579 -- Tam o' Shanter 559 Coveutry 534 Bedlington 1150 lJowdenbeath Tam o' Shanter 288 Beith 459 -- West End 15 Belfast 6tl5 Craigmark and Burnton 477 Bellahouston 590 Craige Cronies 614 Bellshill Caledonian 573 Croft Springside 604 -No. 1 524 Cronies 592 Benwha.t 581 Cumbernauld 326 Bingry Ladies • 580 Cumbrae 167 Birmingham 45 Cumnock 125 Blackburn-on-Almond 62 Cupar 611 Blackridge, W esJ;rigg and 594 Cuyahoga County District 338 Dalkeith 184 Blairadam 414 -- Fountain 478 Bonnie Doon Ladies 244 Da.lmuir 476 Border Cities (Ont.) 35 Dairy 128 ALPHABETICAL LIS'f OF CLUBS No. No. 577 Da.lserf ~ Grabamston 158 Da.rlington 352 Graugemouth 568 Da.rvel 21 Greenock 345 Denbeath 538 -- Past Pres. Assoc. 469 Denny Cross 383 -- R. N. T. F. Heather 55 Derby 209 -- Ht. John's 37 Dolla.r 254 -- Victoria 556 Doncaster 400 Haddington 367 Dornoch 607 Hadrian 541 Donne 33 Haggis 406 Dublin 152 Hamilton 10 Dumbarton 121 -- Junior 226 Dumfries 100 -- Mossgiel 437 -- La.dies No. l 555 Harrogate 503 Dunblane 492 Harrow 14 Dundee 537 Harthill 85 Dunfermline 379 Hartlepools 550 Dunoon Ma.ry Ca.mpbell 239 Ha.wick 466 Dykehead Afton Water 2'25 Helensburgh 506 -- Jea.n Armour 446 Herefordshire 526 -- Ta.m o' Sha.nter 582 Higginsneuk 108 East Calder 468 High Blantyre 22 Edinburgh 40:! Highland Mary Ladies 307 -- Ayrshire Assoc. 375 Holyoke 378 -- District Assoc. 574 Holytown 571 Edmonton 431 Inverkip 149 Elgin 173 Irvine 217 Eskdale 372 Jean Armour (Bailliesto11} '126 Falkirk 506 - (Dykehead) 380 - Cross Keys 348 -- (Newton) 533 Fauldhouse 486 -- (Steelend) 552 Fawside 575 -- (Windsor, Ont.) 262 Fifeshire Assoc. 96 Jedburgh 319 Fisherrow 540 Johnstone 498 Flint 377 Kilbirnie 525 -- Jolly Beggars 0 Kilmarnock 44 Forfar 457 Kinglassie La.dies !i76 Fort Matilda 2l:l Kingston 5118 Forth Jolly Beggars 616 Kirkconnel and Sanquha.l" 403 Fraserburgh 323 Kirkcudbright. 513 Fredericton 75 Kirn 501 Galt 388 Kyle Ladies 412 Gary 578 Lanarkshire B.C.A. 467 Gilbertfield Highland Mary 599 La.rkhall Raploch 596 Glaisnock 548 Leeds 169 Glasgow Assoc.. 461 Leicester 282 --Howling Assoc. 341 Leith 263 -- Masonic 366 Liverpool 3 -- Tam o' Shanter 583 Lochgelly Pipe Band 480 Glencairn 520 Lochlie Ladies 330 Glencraig Bonnie Jea.n 1 London 522 Glenlee 481 -- Ayrshire Soc. 427 Gorebridge Glenoairn 570 --Clans Assoc. 198 --Jolly Beggars 561 London (Ontario) 430 Gourock 183 Londonderry 59 -- Jolly Beggars 528 Loughborough 53 Govan Fairfield 591 Lugar Water ALPHABETICAL LIST OF CLUBS 129 No. No. 350 Markinch 36 Rosebery (Glas.) 387 Mary Campbell 454 Rotherham 310 Mauchline 610 " Royal Arch" 369 Maybole St. Crispin's 354 Royal Clan 390 Meikle E&J"Ilock 9 Royalty 600' Millerhill 470 St. Giles 242 Montrose 220 St. Louis 509 Motherwell Masonic 327 St. Mark's 494 -- United Services 399 St. Ringans 56 Muirkirk 413 San Francisco 139 National 68 Sandyford 74 National Memorial 426 Sauchie 500 New Cumnock 551 Scarborough 523 N.S.W. Highland Soc. 314 Scottish (Edin.) 305 New Waterford 153 Scottish (Glas.) 381 New York Masonic 510 Scottish Dyes Club 597 -- Burns Society 609 Seaforth Highlanders Assoc. 565 -- Robert Burns Circle (Ayrshire Branch) 329 Newark 514 Shanghai 133 N ewarthill 484 Sheddens Ladies 542 -- White Heather 405 Sheffield 199 Newbattle 91 Shettleston 156 Newcastle 283 Sincl&irtown 293 Newcraighall 418 Skegness 348 Newton .Jean Armour 589 Solway 266 - Jolly Beggars 530 Southern Scot. Counties 256 Newton-on-Ayr 486 Steelend Jean Armour 567 Newtown 409 Stenhousemuir 124 Ninety 50 Stirling 563 Norfolk 324 Stockton 17 Nottingham 458 Stonehaven 546 Oak 89 Sunderland 346 Oakbank 444 Swansea 564 Ochiltree 3 Tam o' Shanter (Glas.) 507 Orange County 531 Tees-side 48 Paisley 441 Temple 601 Palestine Caledonian Soc. 7 Thistle 545 Parramatta 602 Thorntree 135 Partick Western 612 Torrance Masonic 442 Penicuik 603 Tower 26 Perth 613 Tranent No. I 511 Perth (West Australia) 271 Trenton 336 Peterhead 274 Troon 284 Philadelphia Northe&stern 456 -- Masonic 453 -Ladies 320 Troy 535 Plymouth 475 Tweed.dale Ladies 190 Port-Glasgow 520 Uddingston Lochlie Ladies 212 Portobello 237 -- Masonic 181 Primrose 325 Vancouver Fellowship 384 Pumpherston 443 Victoria (B.C.) 479 Queen of the South Ladies 303 --St. Andrew's Soc. 585 Queen's Park Clarinda 165 Wallsend 373 Red Hill 436 Walney Ladies 472 Renfrewshire Assoc. 296 Walsall 608 Riccarton Wallace 521 Waratah-Mayfield 606 Rockingham 391 Waterbury 471 Rose of Grange 449 Wellington (N.Z.) 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