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Starke, read a notice of some ancient relics found in the 

 parish of Dahy communicated in letters from Dr Robert 

 Trotter to Mr Starke. The relics were— 1, A large spear head, 

 7i inches in length, found in a moss when casting peats. 2, 

 A large and heavy stone hammer, 13 inches long by 5 broad 

 at the aperture for the shank, found iu a large Cairn. 3, 

 An arrow or dart head of red coloured flint found near the 

 Cairn when making a drain. 4, Three large round water- 

 worn stones, one of them hard millstone grit, part of a large 

 pavement of similar stones turned up by the plough in the 

 parish near the ruins of a building at a place called Chapel 

 Leys, sometimes Chapelyard, similar to a pavement found in 

 the Cheviots, described in the Border Sketches by Mr Hardy 

 as the floor of an ancient house of the Britons. 



Dr Gilchrist presented the Society a copy of the Meteoro- 

 logical Report kept at the Crichton Royal Institution for the 

 year 1867. 



February Uth, 1868. 



The Society held the Third Meeting of the Session in the 

 Assembly Street Club Rooms, 



Mr M'DIARMID in the Chair. 



The minutes of last Meeting were read and approved of 

 Mr Corrie presented to the Society a Stone Hammer re- 

 cently found on the lands of the Moat of Troqueer, with a 

 notice of the circumstances of its discovery and the locality. 



Mr M'Diarmid exhibited part of a stone celt sent to him 

 by Mr Hamilton, Steward-Clerk, Kirkcudbright, and which 

 had been found in the neighbourhood of Kirkcudbright, on the 

 rising ground overlooking the eastern side of the River 

 Dee. 



Dr Gilchrist read a paper on the physical geography of 

 the Southern Alps, as illustrative of modern geographical 



