4 Annual Meeting. 



Account in conneclion with the Publication of " Birrens and its 

 Antiquities" for the year ending 30th September, i8g8. 



Balance due to the Treasurer as at 30th September, 1897 ... £15 12 3 



Ltss Copies of Book sold during the year, as follows :— 



15 Copies at 3s 6d each £2 11 6 



10 „ 3s „ 1 10 



1 „ 2s lid „ 2 11 



_ 4 4 5 



Balance due to Treasurer £11 7 10 



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DuMFMES, 28th December, 1898.— I have examined the foregoing 

 Accounts and compared them with the Vouchers, and find the Balances 

 stated to be due to the Treasurer to be correct. 



JOHN NEILSON. 



Election op Office-Beaeers. 



The following were elected Office-Bearers and Members of 

 Council for the ensuing session : President — Rev. Sir Emilius 

 Laurie, Bart. ; Vice-Presidents— hlx James Barbour, Mr W. J. 

 Maxwell of Terraughtie, Provost Glover, and Rev. J. Cairns ; 

 Secretary — Dr J. Maxwell Ross ; Treasurer — Mr John A. Moodie ; 

 Librarians and Curators of Musetitn — Rev. Mr Andson and Mr 

 James Lennox ; Curators of Herbarium — Mr G. P. Scott-Elliot 

 and Miss Hannay ; Council — Messrs William Dickie, Matthew 

 Jamieson, James Clark, James Davidson, W. J. Maxwell 

 (Terregles Banks), J. M'Gavin Sloan, R. Murray, Mrs Thompson, 

 Miss Hannay, and Miss M. Carlyle Aitken. 



Exhibits. — Mr James Barbour showed (1) a circular stone 

 from the neighbourhood of Birrenswark with indentations on two 

 sides foi finger and thumb supposed to be a hammer dating from 

 the Stone Age, (2) from the Roman Villa recently excavated in 

 Kent a piece of roof -tile with circular markings, tesserae from the 

 floor, and part of a tile from the hypocaust. 



Peesident's Addeess. 



Gleanings from Family Records. 



Tn the paper which I had the pleasure of reading before the 

 Members of this Society some years ago, I took as my subject 



