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APPENDIX B. 



Minute of Agreement between Patrick Dudgeon of and residing at 

 Cargen, in the Parisli of Ti-oqueer and .Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, Presi- 

 dent of the Dumfries and Maxwelltown Astronomical Society, and the said 

 Patrick Dudgeon and David Barker of Woodlands, residing at Arundel 

 House, Maxwelltown, in said Parish of Troqueer ; William Halliday, 

 Cabinet-maker, Maxwelltown ; James Sloan of Barbeth, residing at Elm- 

 bank, Dumfries ; James Hairstens M'Gowan, James M'Whir Hairstens, 

 and Henry Gordon, all Writers in Dumfries ; James M'Gill, Banker, tliere; 

 and James Hutton, sometime residing at Charter House, Maxwelltown, now 

 at Glencaple, Dumfries, the Members of tlie Committee of Management of 

 said Society, and Robert Shai'pe, Writer in Maxwelltown, the Secretary 

 thereof, all for and on behalf of, and as rcprcsentmg said Society, of the 

 first pai-t, and James Gibson Starke of and residing at Troqueer Holm, 

 Maxwelltown, President of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Scientific, 

 Natural History, and Antiquarian Society, and the said James Gibson 

 Starke, William Lennon, residing in Brooke Street, Dumfries ; Thomas 

 Jackson, Nith Place, Dumfries ; Peter Stoliliie, Nith Street, Dumfries ; 

 William Adamson, Brooke Street, Dumfries ; George Robb, Rhynie House, 

 Dumfries : James Lennox, Edenl)ank, Maxwelltown ; James Hutton, Glen- 

 caple, Dumfries ; John Maxwell, King Street, Maxwelltown ; James 

 Watson Kerr, The Academy, Dumfries ; James Moodie, David Street, 

 Maxwelltown ; and James Gilchrist, Doctor of Medicine, Linwood Villa, 

 Dumfries, the Members of the Committee of Management of said last- 

 mentioned Society, and Robert Service, Laurieknowe, Maxwelltown, the 

 Secretary thereof, all for and in behalf of, and as representing said last- 

 mentioned Society, of the second part. 



The parties hereto considering that negotiations have for some time 

 been in progress between the two above-mentioned Societies for depositing 

 in the Museum of the said Astronomical Society of certain Antiquarian and 

 Natural History Specimens and Books, at present belonging to, or in the 

 possession of, or which may during the suljsistence of this Agreement come 

 into the possession of the said Natural History and Antiquarian Society ; 

 that on Sixth August, Eighteen Hundred and Eighty, a deputation from 

 the said Natural History and Antiquarian Society attended a Meeting of 

 the Committee of Management of the said Astronomical Society, at which 

 Meeting Draft Proposals for the carrying out of the said object were sub- 

 mitted and considered, and the parties having now arrived at an agreement 

 regarding the matter, it is right and proper the same should be reduced to 

 wiiting, and made Ijinding on both sides. Therefore it is agreed between 

 said Societies as follows : — 



First. — Tliat tlie said Natural History and Antiquarian Society shall 

 deposit in the Museum of the said Astronomical Society (the buildings 

 containing which Museum are commonly known and called Ijy the name of 

 "The Observatory ") such of the Antiquarian and Natural History Speci- 

 mens and Books presently belongmg to, or in the possession of, or which 

 may during the subsistence of this Agreement come into the possession of 

 the said Natural History and Antiquarian Society, as sliall be selected by 

 the President for the time being of the said Astronomical Society, for 

 exhibition or perusal in the same way and under the like conditions as 

 articles of a similar nature at present in the Museum, the property of the 

 said Astronomical Society, a duplicate list of said Specimens and Books 

 shall, when the same are selected and deposited in the said Museum, be 

 prepared and signed by tlie Presidents or Secretaries of the two Societies, 



