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Pipes," was next read, and a large number of these ancient 

 smoking tubes were exhibited in illustration. 



Bat; and Voles. — Mr R. Service laid on the table specimens of 

 Dauben ton's Bat ( Vespertilio Daubentonii, Leister), which he had 

 captured at Loch Arthur, Lochaber, and other localities in the 

 Stewartry. He found it to be much commoner and of more 

 general distribution than had previously been suspected. He 

 also exhibited several Bank Voles (Arvicola glareola, Schreiber), 

 from Mabie, where these animals were not uncommon. The 

 species had not hitherto been recorded from Kirkcudbrightshire. 



Liticluden Excavations. — The President read a paper descrip- 

 tive of recent excavations at Linchiden Abbey, not yet completed, 

 and of the objects of interest thereby brought to light. Among 

 the latter is what Mr Starke believes to be the effigy, in a broken 

 condition, of Lady Margaret Douglas, daughter of the Scottish 

 king — the figure life size, the costume that of a person of rank of 

 the period, and the head reposing on a cushion. 



1st Ajjril, 188L 



Mr Gibson Starke, President, in the Chair. 



Large attendance. 



New Members. — Mr T. Brown, Auchenhessnane, and Mr Andrew 

 M'Kie of Anchorlee, Kirkcudbright. 



Exhibits. — By the Secretary, specimens recently captured of the 

 black variety of the Water Vol (Ariocula am]}hibius) ; by Sheriff 

 Hope, a remarkable example of vegetable ternatology (procured 

 at Drumlanrig), in the shape of what was said to be a round 

 cluster of the cones of the pinaster, there being upwards of fifty 

 cones in the bunch, and all growing from a central point ; by the 

 Secretary, a curious mushroom, or rather trio of mushrooms, one 

 of the heads being of the usual size, and two others being inverted 

 in the cap of it, on each side of the apex ; by Dr Grierson, a very 

 fine bronze goblet, recently acquired for his Museum, and which, 

 he said, was found thirty years ago, along with two bronze plates 

 and another goblet now irrecoverably lost, — the manufacture 

 Romano-British, similar examples of which have been found in 

 Wigtownshire and Wales. Dr Grierson also exhibited a very 

 fine example of the nest of a trap-door spider from Australia. 



