PROCEEDINGS AND TRANSACTIONS 



OF THE 



DUMFRIESSHIRE & GALLOWAY 



NATURAL HISTORY &>NTIQUAI[IAN SOCIETY. 



SESSIOI^r 1891-OS. 



■2nd October, 189L 

 Rev. William Andson in the chair. 



A'ew Members. — Dr John Maxwell Wood, Irish Street. Mr 

 E. G. Baker, F.L.S., of the British Miiseum, was elected an hono- 

 rary member on the ground of the interest he had displayed in the 

 presentation of the botanical specimens to the Society by Mr 

 Carruthers, F.K.S., and the labour he had expended in arran»ino' 

 them. 



/Jonrt<i"oHS.— Richard Rimmer, Esq., F.L.S., the President of 

 the Society, presented a copy of his Book, " The Land and Fresh 

 Water Shells of the British Isles ;" the Transactions of the Geo- 

 logical Society of Glasgow, 1888-90; the Report of the Manchester 

 Museum; the Transactions of the Botanical Society, V^ol. 18- 

 Simple Method of taking Phenological Observations ; Entomolo- 

 gist's Record, Nos. 4 and 10; Belfast Naturalists' Field Club, 

 1890-91; Essex Naturalist, January to May, 1891; Transactions 

 of the Meriden Scientific Association, 1889-90 ; Report of the 

 British Association, 1890; the Report of the Smithsonian Museum 



1889 ; Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, Nov., 



1890 to March, 1891 ; Proceedings of the East of Scotland Union 

 of Naturalists' Societies, 1890 ; Time Reckoning for the 20th 

 Century (from the Smithsonian Report for 1886); Report of the 

 Canadian Institute, Toronto, 1891; Spear-Throwers of the Ancient 



