6 Proceedings of the Dumfriesshire and Oalloway 



Mr. Stark, Troqueer Holm ; Mr. Thorburn, Barukin, were 

 elected ordinary Members. 



Mr. E. Gray, City of Glasgow Bank ; Dr. Herder, were 

 elected Corresponding Members. 



January (5th, 1863. 

 Mr. M'DIAEMID in the Chaii-. 



This may be considered as the first regular Meeting of the 

 constituted Society. 



Eector Cairns, Dumfries Academy ; Mr. Jackson, Mth 

 Place ; Mr. Hastings, Taxidermist ; Mr. William Allan, 

 Druggist ; Dr. P. Murray ; all of Dumfries. Mr. Lennon, 

 Crichton Institution ; Mr. Mackenzie, Barn Hill ; Mr. Cor- 

 diner, Fraserford ; Eev. G. Laing, Penpont ; Eev. William 

 M'Donald, Burnhead ; Eev. James Hutton, Manse, Close- 

 burn ; Eev. H. Barclay, Manse, Dunscore, were elected 

 ordinary Members. 



Mr. James C. Whyte Douglas ; Dr. C. F. Sloane, Ayr ; 

 Eev, William Grant, Ayr ; Professor Harkness, Cork ; Pro- 

 fessor OgUvie, Aberdeen ; Mr. William C. Aitken, Birming- 

 ham ; Mr. James Keogh, Troon, were elected corresponding 

 Members. 



The following communications were read : — 



The Eev. William Fraser, Colvend, read the first paper sub- 

 mitted to the Society, " On the re-discovery of Scutellaria 

 minor on Laggan Hill, Colvend." — See Transactions. 



Mr. Eraser took the opportunity of congratulating the members 

 on the success which had thus far attended their meetings, and of 

 expressing the hope that the Society now constituted would in 

 future be the " rallying point" for the zoologist, botanist, geologist, 

 archseologist and the scientific and hterary men of Dumfriesshire 

 and Galloway. 



On Anthoceros 2^ii'nctatus. By Mr. CroaU, Sunnyside. 

 Montrose. Communicated by Dr. Gilchrist. 



