DUMFRIESSHIRE & GALLOWAY 



Scientific, Natural History, and 

 Antiquarian Society. 



TRANSACTIOKS. 



SEssionsr issa-ss. 



6th October, 1882. 



ANNUAL MEETING. 



Mr Rutherford, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



J!^ew Me7nhers. — Messrs J. Grierson, solicitor ; J. G. Laidlaw, 

 Bank of Scotland ; W. Bailey, Herald Office ; J. Smellie, Queen's 

 Place. 



Donations. — Picked dog-fish, from Mr BiiTell ; flounder having 

 both sides dark, caught at Carsethorn, 22d Sept., from Mr James 

 Lennox ; Vendace, together with a block of wood of supposed lake 

 dwelling at the Castle Loch, from Mr P. Waugh, Lochmaben ; 

 impression in wax of " Great Seal" of Queen Aiine, from Mr 

 Davidson of Summerville ; coin of James I. of Scotland ; bottle 

 containing young cod-fish taken ofi* Girvan, from Mr Moodie; 

 annual report for 1880 of Smithsonian Institution, from the Secre- 

 tary of the Interior, U.S.A. ; four parts of Annals of New York 

 Academy of Sciences ; two parts of Transactions of Epping Forest 

 and County of Essex Field Club, from said Club ; one part Trans- 

 actions of Edinburgh Geological Society ; three numbers of the 

 Field Naturalist, from Publisher. 



Exhibits. — Mr F. W. Grierson exhibited the following plants 

 beautifully mounted and hung round the walls of the room : — 

 Manunculas peltatus — Maxwelltown Loch. Drosera ang lica 



