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the Episcopal Chapel, but is now the Wesleyan Chapel. He found 

 a description of the chapel proposed to be erected in Dumfries 

 mentioned in one of Mr Hunt's letters, and he could not find the 

 description to correspond with any other place. Mr Hunt spoke 

 of the great window in the chapel facing Castle Street. 



1st Afril, 1892. 



Mr James Barbour, V.-P., in the chair. 



Nev; Member. — Mr John K. Eogerson of Gowanlea, Holywood. 



Donations and Exhibits. — Vol. 27 of the Zoological Record 

 containing Dr David Sharp's work on " Insecta," presented by the 

 author, together with his paper (reprinted from the Entomological 

 Journal) on Entomological Pins ; the Report of the British 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, 1891 ; the Trans- 

 actions of the Minnesota Academy of Natural Sciences, 1887-89; 

 two Whorls picked up on the farm of Knockneen, and also two 

 ancient Flints found in the same place, presented through Mr 

 Murray, by Mr John M'Meekan, Knockneen, Stranraer. Mr 

 Frank jMiller exhibited a bronze spear-head, the property of Mr 

 Charles Baxter, High Street, Annan, found in a garden there. 



Communications. 



I. — " Some Curious Place Names." By Mr Patrick 

 Dudgeon, F.S.A. 



A large proportion of our existing surnames, as most are 

 aware, derive originally from local names, as for example Under- 

 wood, Oxley, Woodburn, &c., &c., the name having been given to 

 some person from or living near some such place, and afterwards, 

 when surnames came into common use, adopted by the individual 

 as his surname, as we now recognise the term, so also with such 

 names as Scott, Inglis (English), French, London, Glasgow, Man- 

 chester, and thousands of others deiiviug from similar sources ; on 

 the other hand, many names of places derive from names of 

 persons, such as Williamfield, Robertlaiid, Jock's Lodge, Johns- 

 burn, Robinfield, Charlesfield, and so on, all evidently being named 

 from persons who were somehow or other at one time identified 



