PROCEEDINGS AND TRANSACTIONS 



OF THE 



DUMFRIESSHIRE AND GALLOWAY 



NATURAL HISTORY & ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY. 



SESSION 1892-9 3. 



1th October, 1892. 

 Rev. Wm. Andson, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Neio Meiiihers. — Miss Wallace and Miss Amy Wallace, Loch- 

 maben. Sir Herbert E. Maxwell, Bart., M.P., was elected an 

 Honorary Member. 



Donations. — The Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of 

 Scotland, 1891 ; Contributions to North American Ethnology, 

 Vol. II. (tAvo parts), and Vol. VI., presented by the United 

 States Government ; the Testimony of Tradition and the Journal 

 of the Gypsy Lore Society, Vol. II., presented by Mr David 

 MacHitchie, of Edinburgh; Bibliography of the Algonquin 

 Languages (Smithsonian Institute) ; the Essex Naturalist, 1884- 

 87 ; also, December, 1891-August, 1892 ; Report on the Pile- 

 Structures in Naaraan's Creek (Peabody Museum) ; the Belfast 

 Naturalists' Field Club, 1891-92 ; the Proceedings of the Natural 

 History Society of Glasgow, 1890 ; the World's Columbian 

 Exposition at Chicago, 1 893 ; Dr Sharp's Scheme of Old Age 

 Pensions ; list of Birds of Connecticut, prepared for the Bridge- 

 port Scientific Society ; the Transactions of the Canadian 

 Institute, 1892 ; the Archjeological Report of the Canadian 

 Institute, 1891 ; an appeal to the Canadian Institute on the 

 Rectification of Parliament ; the Proceedings of the Rochester 

 (New York) Academy of Science, 1891 ; Proceedings of the Nova 

 Scotian Institute of Science, 1891 ; Index Armorial by A. D. 

 Weld — French. 



