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Sheriff Hope, Mi- T. R. Bruce of Slogarie, and Mr J. Neilson, 

 M. A., Dumfries ; Secretary, Mr R. Service ; Assistant Secretary, 

 Mr James Lennox ; Treasurer, Mr Adamson ; Committee (in 

 addition to above), Dr Grierson, Messrs Watt, Lennon, Maxwell, 

 Halliday, A. B. Crombie, and J. W. Kerr. Messrs Moodie and 

 Kerr were appointed Auditors. 



Draft minute of agreement between the Observatory share- 

 holders and this Society (as proposed by the former) was next 

 considered. 



JVote. — The agreement effected subsequently between the two 

 bodies is printed in Appendices to last published "Transactions." 



5th JVovember, 1880. 



Sheriff Hope, Vice-President, in the chair. Twenty- 

 four present. 



Ifew Members. — Rector Chinnock, Dumfries; and Mr Milne, 

 Cintra Yilla. 



Bonatio7is. — By Mr W. Gibson, a number of pieces of Samian 

 ware found in an ash-pit of a Roman \T[lla near Cai-lisle, at a 

 depth of 10 feet. 



Exhibits. — By Mr M'Meekan, piece of fossil sandstone ; by Mr 

 J. Wilson, the cast skin of an adder found by him at Woodhead 

 of Troqueer ; by Mr John Fairley (a young Dumfriesian located 

 on the West Coast of Africa), specimens of native workmanship 

 procured in the Ashantee and Niger countries, and which he 

 described ; from Mrs Gilchrist Clark of Speddoch, a splendid 

 portfolio of 36 original coloured drawings of local fungi, represent- 

 ing nearly 100 species; from Mr Milne, fine gold coin (larger but 

 thinner than a sovereign) of the reign of James I. of Scotland ; 

 by Mr Gibson, a Scoto-Scandinavian silver brooch, found at Drum- 

 coltran, Kirkgunzeon, with reference to which a paper was read, 

 stating that it was got under a stone at a depth of three feet, 

 together with a thick plain silver ring, one inch in diameter, and 

 a silver coin of JuUus Csesar, the whole being embedded in a black 

 soft pulp, evidently decomposed leather. 



Papers. — A paper was read from Dr Gilchrist on " The Peat 

 Formation at Newall TeiTace, Dumfries," in which the wi-iter 

 enumerated the objects found in the peat by Mr F. W. Grierson 



