20 ProccecUnrjs oj the Dum/riegshire and GaUoicay 



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The Annual Meeting Ijegiuning the Session of 1878-79 

 was held in the Mechanics' Institute — Mr Rutherford in 

 the chair. 



Rev. W. Lytteil, M.A., Kirkmahoo Manse, and Mr 

 Murdoch, Rosemount Terrace, were elected Ordinary Mem- 

 bers. Mr P. Cameron, jr., Glasgow, and Mr J. Thomson, 

 Gatelawbridge, were elected Corresponding Members, the 

 latter being transferred from the list of Ordinary Members 

 iintd his return from Africa, whither ho is about to proceed 

 with an Exploring E.xpedition. 



Mr F. W. Grierson exhibited a large Herbarium of 

 Phanerogamic and Cryptogamic Plants collected during the 

 past season, and also an Instrument to explain the changes 

 of tlie seasons, which he named the Horitphraziter. 



The Secretary read his Annual Report, which showed 

 that the Society had a very successful session. The Member- 

 ship was now 100, and the average attendance at the Ordi- 

 nary Meetings had been 27, and at the Field Meetings 16. 

 The Treasurer read his annual statement, showing a 

 balance of £3 17s 5kl in favour of the Societ}''. 



Mr Grierson read the report from the Botanical Section, 

 enumerating the plants and their habitats, which had been 

 met with when at the Field Meetings and elsewhere. 



Mr Glover Anderson read the report of the Archaeological 

 Section, briefly going over the objects of Antiquarian interest 

 tliat had been visited by the Society. 



The Chairman made some remarks explanatory of two 

 beautiful Micro-photographs executed by himself of a fly's 

 tongue, and a specimen of Pediculus vestimenti 



Mr Hastings read some "Ornithological Notes," in which, 

 after stating that although he had few opportunities of seeing 

 for himself what is to be seen in wild nature, still many 

 interesting birds that had been collected in the district were 

 sent to him for preservation, he said that last August a young 

 Crossbill had been sent to him from Palgowan, a sheep farm 

 in Penpont, and which no doubt had been bred io that part of 



