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from Locharbriggs showing rain-drop markings : he exhibited 

 also a specimen of obscure footmarks upon sandstone from 

 the Wood-end Quarry. 



May M, 1864 



Sir WILLIAM JAEDINE in the Chair. 



There was a very full attendance of Members. 



Mr. Sloane, ^Merchant, Dumfries ; Mr, Blacklock, Timber 

 Merchant, Dumfries ; Mr. Witham, Kirkconnell ; Mr. Coup- 

 land, Hairdresser, Dumfries ; Mr. G. Clarke, Speddoch ; Sherif 

 Trotter, Dumfries, were elected Ordinary Members. 



Sir William Jardine then presented the Society with the 

 published Journal of the Proceedings of the Society's first 

 session. It was arranged that the journal should be distri- 

 buted free to all the Ordinary Members on the roll up to May 

 1864 Members admitted after that date to pay Is. 6d. The 

 price to non-Members was fixed at 2s. 6d., and to correspond- 

 ing Members Is. 6d. It would be expected of new Members 

 that they should take the Transactions of the past year, as this 

 would assist considerably towards iucreasing the funds of the 

 Society. Sixty copies of the journal were then placed in the 

 hands of the Secretary, to be followed by 240 more on the 

 following day. 



It was then agreed that the open-air meetings of the 

 Society should commence upon the first Tuesday in June, and 

 that the first excursion should be made to the ruins of Tibbers 

 Castle, near Drumlanrig. The principle of last summer- 

 session was adopted of selecting the locality for next excursion 

 at the previous meeting. 



The following communications wci-e read : — 



Translation from the writings of Hector Boethius, " On the 



Terrestrial Winged and Aquatic Animals of Scotland." By 



Mr. I). Biggar, Drumlanrig. 



