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gentlemen who take an active interest in the objects for which the 

 Society was instituted, and who fom a valuable addition to its 

 strength and capability for carrying out its aims. The meetings 

 have been with one exception— the September field meeting, 

 which did not take place— very well attended ; there having been 

 an average attendance of 22 at the winter meetings and 21 at the 

 summer field meetings, not taking the September meeting into 

 account. The publication of a "Flora of Dumfriesshire and 

 Kirkcudbrightshire" marks an important advance in the work of 

 the Society. The volume has attracted considerable notice from 

 botanical students, and obtained favourable comments in some of 

 the scientific periodicals. The members are under gi-eat obliga- 

 tions to Mr M'Andrew for the laborious work he undertook in Its 

 compilation. The arrangement with the management of the 

 Observatory, whereby the articles belonging to the Society have 

 been deposited in the Museum, in return for which the members 

 enjoy certain privileges, has wrought very well during the past 

 year, and has conferred a mutual benefit on each institution. 

 The articles sent to the Museum since our last ordinary meeting 

 in April are as follow : — 



No. 159, April 28, Vendace from Major Bowden ; No. 160, 

 do.. Albino flounder, from Mr Ballantine, Carsethorn ; No. 17?! 

 June 1st, Group of Zoophytes and Sponge, Southerness • No ITs' 

 do.. Pipe fish from Mr Black ; No. 179, do. Egg from inside of an 

 ordinary domestic hen's egg, from Mr R. Maxwell; No. 180, do., 

 Small Drawing of Kirkcudbright Castle, from Mr Thomson / No.' 

 184, June 21st, Tiger python, shot in Cachar by Mr Inglis 'from 

 Mr Service ; No. 187, July 18th, Sepia officinalis, caught at Loch 

 fishery, Gretna, 'from Mr Irving; No. 191, Aug. 30th, Thirty- 

 four specimens of Carices; No. 193, do.. Centipede from Mozam- 

 bique, from Mrs Aitken, Church Crescent ; No. 194, do.. Adder 

 Mabie, from Mr Service; No. 19.5, do., Slow-worm caught on 

 MiUgreen, from Mr Service; No. 196, Broad nosed eel; No. 197, 

 Sharp nosed eel; No. 198, Jar with three roach; No. 199, ditto ' 

 No. 200, Jar with one roach ; No. 201, Jar with perch ;-^all got 

 at Kirk Loch on the occasion of the field meeting at Lochmaben. 

 These articles bring up the total number of specimens belonging 

 to the Society deposited in the Observatory to 137. 



We would like to direct attention to the desirability of members 

 doing something to form a collection of our local fishes, a nucleus 



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