4 Proceedings oj tlie Dumfriesshire and Gallmmy 



Miss Mitchell, Montrose ; Mr. Croall, Montrose ; Mr. 

 Joseph Parker ; Mr. H. T. Wake ; Capt. Anderson ; Dr. J. C. 

 Browne, Derby Lunatic Asylum ; Dr. A. Mitchell, Depute- 

 Commissioner of Lunacy ; were elected corresponding Mem- 

 bers. 



December 4>th, 1862. 



Mr. M'DIAKMID in the Chair. 



The Committee appointed at the previous Meeting of the 

 Society submitted the draft of a set of rules, which having 

 been read and revised, were approved of, and ordered to be 

 engrossed in this Minute.* 



1. The Society shall be called "The Dumfriesshire and 

 Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society." 



2. The objects of the Society shall be to secure a more fre- 

 quent interchange of thought and opinion among those who 

 cultivate Natural History and Antiquities, to elicit and diffuse a 

 taste for such studies where it is yet unformed, and to afford means 

 and opportunities for promoting it ; the resources of Dumfriessliire 

 and Galloway for such objects being particidarly kept in view. 



3. The Society shall consist of Ordinary, Honorary and Cor- 

 responding Members. The Ordinary Members shall be persons 

 resident in the County of Dumfries and in Galloway, present and 

 admitted at the Meeting of the 20th November 1862, and those 

 who shall afterwards be proposed for admission by an Ordinary 

 Member, and be admitted at an Ordinary Meeting of the Society 

 by a ballot, in which three-fourths of the Members present vote for 

 the admission. The Honorary and Corresponding Members shall 

 consist of Gentlemen not residing in Dumfriesshire or Galloway 

 distiaguished for attainments connected with the objects of the 

 Society, who shaU be proposed and admitted at an Ordinary Meeting. 



4. The Ordinary Members shall contribute annually the sum 

 of 5 s., payable in advance, to the funds of the Society, or such 

 other sum as shaU from time to time be fixed upon as the annual 

 contribution of Ordinary Members. 



* These first rules were again revised at the opening of the Session 1863-64, 

 and are printed here as then agreed upon, and as they now stand the rules of 

 the Society. 



