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were collected iii localities in the east of the Stewartiy of Kirk- 

 cudbright : — 



Sialis lutaria, Linn. 



,, fuliginosa, Pict. 

 Micromus paganus, Znnn. 

 Hemorobius micans, Oliv. 



,, humuli, Linn. 



„ nervosus, Fab. 



Hemorobius limbatus, Wesm.. 

 Chrysopa flava, Scop. 



„ vittata, Wesm. 



,, alba, Lian. 

 Panorpa germanica, Linn. 



Ajiril 23rd, 1880. 



The Seventh and last Meeting of the Winter Session was held 

 in the Mechanics' Institute — Mr Neilson in the chair. 



The Secretary explained that in the ordinary course this meeting 

 should have been held on the 2nd inst., but owing to the General 

 Election he had taken the responsibility of postponing it till 

 this date. 



Messrs K W. Miller, Queen Street ; J. Wilson, Inland 

 Revenue ; Alan B. Crombie and James Crombie, architects, were 

 duly elected Ordinary Members. 



The Secretary announced that he had received four parts of the 

 Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences ; three Annual 

 E.eports by the Comptroller of the Currency of the United States ; 

 two pamphlets from Mr E. S. Morse, Salem, Mass. — one on 

 Traces of an Early Race in Japan ; the other on Dolmens in 

 Japan — and two papers on "The Salmon Disease," read before 

 the Royal Society of Edinburgh, by Mr A. B. Stirling, curator of 

 the Anatomical Museum — all of which donations were laid on the 

 table. Mr W. G. Gibson sent a Radiometer for exhibition, and 

 the Chairman explained its construction and its scientific value. 



The following list of Field Meetings was then agreed to : — Eirst 

 Saturday of May, Thornhill Museum ; First Saturday of June, 

 Colvend ; Second Thursday of July, Enterkin Pass ; Second 

 Thursday of August, Annan District ; First Saturday of Septem- 

 ber, Criffel. 



A proposal by Dr Gilchrist, of which consideration had been 

 delayed from the February meeting, to have a Map of the Society's 

 District printed, was taken up ; but, after some discussion, it was 

 agreed that owing to the state of the Society's funds the matter 

 should be adjourned sine die. 



In the absence of Mr Rutherford, through serious illness, the 

 Secretary read a communication from that gentleman, entitled 



