G Proceedings of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway 



From that number the following were chosen as office- 

 bearers and committee of management, and were instructed 

 to meet on November 10th to draw up a constitution and 

 rules, choose a name for the Society, &c., and report to a 

 subsequent meeting : — 



President — 

 Dr Gilchrist, Crichtoii Royal Institu- 

 tion. 



Vice-President — 

 J. Rutherford, Esq. of Jardineton. 



Secretary — 

 R, Service, Maxwelltowu. 



Treasurer — 

 J. Moudie, Geddes Place, Maxwell- 

 town. 



Members of Committee— 

 J. Glover Andersou, 138, High St., 



Durnfiies. 

 Dr Griersoii, Thnrnhill. 

 W. G. Gibson, C.R. Institution. 

 J. Rfid, Irish Street, Dumfries. 

 R. W. Macfadzean, Buccleuch Street, 



Dumfries. 

 F. W. Qrierson, Chaplemount, Max- 



welitown. 

 D. B. Hart, raerchanl-, Dumfries. 

 J. G. Scott, chemist, Dumfries. 



Xovemher 17th, 1876. 

 Dr Gilchrist in the Chair. 



At this meeting, held in the Town Hall, the Chairman 

 submitted the following Rules, prepared by the Committee, 

 and Revised by a Sub-Committee, which were unanimously 

 approved of. 



1st. The Society shall be called the Dumfriesshire 

 AND Galloway Scientific, Antiquarian, and Natural 

 History Society. 



2d. The aims of the Society shall be to secure a more 

 frequent interchange of thought and opinion among those 

 who devote themselves to Scientific, Archaeological, and 

 Natural History studies ; to elicit and diffu.?e a taste for 

 such studies where it is yet unformed ; and to afford increased 

 facilities for its extension where it already exists. 



3d. The Society shall consist of Ordinary, Honorary, and 

 Corresponding Members. The Ordinary Members shall be 

 persons resident in Dumfriesshire and Galloway, present and 

 admii-ted at a Public Meeting called lor the purpose on 3rd 

 November, 1S7(3, and those who shall afterwards be pro- 

 posed by two Members ''to one of whom the candidate shall 

 be personally known) and admitted at an Ordinary Meeting 

 of the Society by a vote of the majority present The 

 Honorary and Corresponding Members shall consist nf per- 

 sons distinguished for attaiauieuts connected with the objects 

 of the Society, who cannot attend as Urdinavy Members, and 

 who sliali be propoised and admitted at au Ordinary Meeting 

 in the f-m\G way as Qiiimiy Meujl'yrjj, 



