berwick-1909/01_007

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vi HISTORICAL MONUMENTS (SCOTLAND) COMMISSION.

in imminent risk of demolition or decay. It has not been considered
necessary to furnish the Inventory with illustrations or plans, as
these already exist in the case of almost all monuments, etc., of
importance in Berwickshire, and are referred to in the Inventory.
Your Commissioners propose in the current year to review the
monuments in the county of Sutherland, and also, if possible, those
in the county of Caithness, and lists have been distributed and other
preparations made with that object.
It is very gratifying to your Commissioners to state that your
Majesty’s Commission has everywhere been fully appreciated and
favourably received, and that the greatest assistance has been given to
your Commissioners in carrying out the work with which you have
entrusted them. The fact that the Corporation of Edinburgh have
recently caused to be compiled and have published an Inventory of
the older structures in the central part of the Old Town is an
encouraging action that merits record. In the court of the year various
cases in which interesting monuments were threatened with injury
or destruction have been brought informally to the notice of your
Commissioners, and it is gratifying to record that representations
made by your Commissioners have met with consideration from
proprietors and others interested.
Your Commissioners desire to make grateful acknowledgment of
the manner in which the work has been facilitated by the clergy and
schoolmasters of Berwickshire. Special thanks are due also to the
Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, whose Council has placed the
valuable archaeological library of the Society at your Commissioners'
disposal and furnished them with a complete set of the Society’s
Proceedings, thereby enabling your Commissioners to avoid much
expense in the purchase of books, etc. Many Fellows of the Society,
also, have rendered valuable assistance individually, all of which
your Commissioners humbly submit to your Majesty’s gracious
consideration.
Your Commissioners cannot conclude this their first Report
without making cordial acknowledgment of the degree in which their
labours have been facilitated by the unremitting energy and special
knowledge of their Secretary, Mr A. O. Curle. They feel that
without the assistance of one so well skilled in archaeology they
could not have accomplished nearly so much as they have done.
L.S.
HERBERT MAXWELL. FRANCIS C. BUCHANAN.
CHARLES J. GUTHRIE. W. T. OLDRIEVE.
G. BALDWIN BROWN. THOMAS ROSS.
THOMAS H. BRYCE. ALEXANDER. O. CURL, Secretary.
June 1909.