I 



PROCEEDINGS AND TRANSACTIONS 



OF THE 



DUMFRIESSHIRE AND GALLOWAY 



NATURAL HISTORY & ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY, 



SESSION 1897-9 8. 



22nd October, 1897. 



ANNUAL MEETING. 



Mr Robert Muruay, V.P., in the Chair. 



New Members. — Mr James Clark, M.A., rector, Dumfries 

 Academy ; Rev. Wallace M'Cubbin, Wendover ; Rev. Joseph 

 Hunter, M. A , F.S. A. Scot., Cookburnspath, Dunbar ; Mr J. 

 M'Gavin Sloan, editor, Dumfries Courier and Herald ; Mr Miles 

 Leighton ; Provost Glover ; and Mr Hope Bell of Morrington. 



Donations and Exchanges. — The following were laid on the 

 table : — Fourteenth and Fifteenth Annual Reports of the Bureau 

 of Ethnology, U.S.A.; Report of Smithsonian Institute for 1895 ; 

 Year-Book of U.S. Department of Agriculture for 1896 ; 

 Proceedings of Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences, Vol. VI., 

 1895-6; Transactions of the N.Y. Academy of Sciences, January, 

 1897 ; Proceedings of Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia, Part III., 1896, and Part I., 1897 ; Journal of the 

 Elislia Mitchell Scientific Society for 1896, Parts I. and II.; 

 Proceedings of Canadian Institute, February, 1897 ; U.S. 

 Department of Agriculture, Farmer's Bulletin, No. 54 ; Some 

 Common Birds in their relation to Agriculture, by F. E. Beal, 

 assistant ornithologist ; Proceedings of the Natural Science 

 Association of Staten Islands, Vol. VI., Nos. 5, 6, 7, and 8 ; 

 Ulster Journal of Archajology, Vol. III., Part 4 ; Proceedings of 

 Belfast Naturalists' Field Club for 1896-97; Report of the 

 Marlborough College Natural History Society for 1896-97 ; 



