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at the Midsteeple indicating the distance to Huntingdon, wliich 

 had a famous market. The best Scotcli tokens of all were those 

 of Dundee, which were remarkable for the way in which they 

 were struck, and which could not be surpassed by any English 

 ones that he knew of. (latehouse-of-Fleet was the only place 

 within the two counties (Kirkcudbriglit and Dumfries) which 

 issued a halfpenny of its own, and he exhibited a specimen, on 

 the one side of which was a view of the mill, and on the other 

 the arms of Murray Stewart of Gaily. In liis collection of tokens 

 some 70 belonged to the period between 1790 to 1797; four 

 belonged to a later period. He had many hundreds of the 

 English ones. He expressed the hope that he had given the 

 Society an interest in Scotch trade tokens. The extraoi'dinary 

 thing in connection with them was that, while there were many 

 records of the English issues, there was no record in Scotland. 



Mr James Watt described the proceedings of the Geological 

 Section of the British Association at Edinburgh, 1892. 



\Wi January, 1893. 



Rev. Wm. Andson, V.-P,, in the Chair. 



Donations. — A collection of Grasses and Rushes presented by 

 Mr Tom Brown, late of Auchenhessnane ; a collection of Mosses 

 presented by the Rev. George Wilson, of Glenluce ; a number of 

 Botanical Specimens presented by Miss Thompson, of Settle ; the 

 Essex Naturalist for November, 1892. 



COMMUNICATIOISS. 



1. Botanical Notes for 1892. 

 By Mr James M'Andrew, New-Galloway. 



Wigtownshire. 



The result of a week's botanizing at Cairnryan, Wigtownshire 

 in July 1892, was rather disappointing. The village is a very 

 desirable spot for spending a quiet holiday, and is not far from 



