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ings of the Society should terminate with the next, or May 

 meeting, and that summer excursions should then commence. 

 The following communications were read : — 

 On a Submerged Forest in Galloway. By Dr. A. Mitchell, 



CM. 



The observations were confined almost entirely to the number 

 of large trunks of trees found imbedded in the banks of the Cree 

 near Newton-Stewart, and the peculiarity of the locality in which 

 they were found* 



On some of the rarer Lepidoptera of the district. By ISIr. 

 William Lennon, Crichton Institution. Eead by Dr. Gilchrist. 

 Some fine and carefully-prepared specimens were exhibited.— 

 See Transactions. 



May 5th, 1863. 



Dr. GEIEESON in the Chair. 



The Eev. Eobt. Wishart, Thornhill; Mr. Mitchell, Courier 

 Office, Dumfries, were elected Ordinary ISIembers. 



Mr. G. C. Dybdahl, Copenhagen; and Mr. M'llraith, 

 Canada, were elected Corresponding Members. 



The Secretary reported that the Council had met Sir W. 

 Jardine upon the 30th, relative to the management of the 

 summer excursions, and the maimer in which the proceedings 

 and transactions of the Society might be most fitly embodied 

 and preserved for its use. 



As the publication of these proceedings would be of great 

 importance to the Society, and would enable them to exchange 

 their Transactions with other kindred bodies, the President 

 proposed to undertake the printing of the Transactions of the 

 Society during its first session, and present them to the Mem- 

 bers as Ms contribution for the first year, and requested that 

 the Minutes should be placed in his hands for that purpose, 

 and to enable him to prepare an address to be read at the 

 next Anniversary Meeting. This was agreed to. 



* This paper had been previously read before the Antiiiuarian Society of 

 Edinburgh. The locality will be visited in the summer excursions of the 

 Society, and further reported on. It is extremely interesting. 



