PROCEEDINGS AND TRANSACTIONS 



OF THE 



DUMFRIESSHIRE AND GALLOWAY 



NATURAL HISTORY & ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY. 



SESSION 1899-1900. 



Idth October, 1899. 



AXXUAL MEETIXG. 



Rev. Mr A NM) s n in the Chair. 



A^eio Mfi.mhpr. — Dr Alexander Trotter, Dalshangan, Dairy. 



Donations and Exdianyes. — "A Country Schoolmaster — James 

 Shaw," presented by Professor Wallace ; Transactions of the 

 Edinburgh Geological Society, Vol. XII., Part IV. ; Proceedings 

 of the Natural Science Association of Stateu Island ; Life History 

 Studies of Animals, by L. C. ^liall ; The Royal Menagerie of 

 France, by E. T. Hamy ; The Law which underlies Protective 

 Coloration, Ijy Abbot A. Thayer ; on Soaring Flight, by E. C. 

 Huffaker; North American Fauna, No. 14, from U.S. Department 

 of Agriculture — Biological Survey ; No. 1 -5, Revision of Jumping 

 Mice of genus Zapris ; Report of 7th Meeting of Australa.sian 

 Association, 1898 ; Transactions of Canadian Institute, Supple- 

 ment to No. 9, Vol. v.. Part I. ; Journal of E. Mitchell's 

 .Scientific Society, 1898, 15th year, Part.s I. and II. ; Year Book 

 of the Department of Agriculture, U.S.A., 1898 ; Report of 

 Marlborough College Natural History Society, 1898 ; Annals of 

 New Y'ork Academy of Sciences, Vol. XL, Part III. ; Recent 

 Research in Egypt, by W. F. Petrie ; A Preliminary Account of 

 Archaological Field Work in Arizona in 1897, by J. W. Fewkes; 

 A new group of Stone Implements from Lake Michigan, by W. A. 

 Phillips ; A Study of the Omaha Tribe, by Alice C. Fletcher ; 



