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there was some reeog-nition of an unnamed Almig-lity Deity, who 

 was uncreated and self-existent, but that in course of time the 

 attributes of this one God were represented and symbohzed by 

 natural objects, which became themselves the objects of super- 

 stitious reverence, and were worshipped as separate deities. It is 

 interesting to find, however, that in this very ancient religion 

 there was a belief in the immortality of the soul, in a judgment 

 after death, and in a future state of rewards and punishments 

 according to the deeds done in the body. 



13th November, 1896. 



Mr James G. H. Stakke, V.-P., in the Chair. 



Donations and Exchanges. — The Chairman presented three 

 Dumfries bi'oadsheets of 1863 and 1865, and also copies of the 

 Society's Transactions for 1876-1880. 



The Secretary laid the following on the table : — Annals of 

 the New York Academy of Sciences ; Proceedings of the Man- 

 chester Microscopical Society ; Proceedings of the x\.cademy of 

 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia ; Proceedings of the Sheffield 

 Naturalists' Club ; Proceedings of the Cardiff Naturalists' Society ; 

 Proceedings of the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club. 



Communications. 



I. — Botanical Records for 1896. By Mr James M'Andkew, 

 New-Galloway. 



During my lasD summer holidays (1896) I botanized in three 

 different localities, viz., Carsethoru, in Kirkcudbrightshire, and 

 Glenluce and Sorbie, in Wigtownshire. In the hope that, as on 

 former similar occasions, the results of my work may be interesting 

 to other botani.>ts of the Society, I would now desire to make the 

 following few remarks : — 



The three south-western counties have now been so fully 

 botanized and the results publicly recorded that comparatively 

 few new plants are likely to be met with in the district embraced 

 in the field of our Society's operations. My list of new finds for 



