TRflNSflCTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



DUMFRIESSHIRE AND GALLOWAY 



llatural Historn \ Untipnrio JoGietif. 



SESSIOIsr ISQS-Q-i. 



IMh October, 1893. 



ANNUAL MEETING. 



Mr James Gibson Hamilton Starke, M.A., Vice-President, 

 in the chair. 



Donations. — A Collection of Bees, presented by Mr G. F. 

 Scott-Elliot ; a Wasps' Nest, presented by Miss A. Wedderburn ; 

 the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1891-2 ; 

 Proceedings of the Rochester (New York) Academy of Science, 

 Vol. II. ; North American Fauna, No. 7 (from the United States 

 Department of Agriculture) ; Transactions of the Geological 

 Society of Glasgow, Vol. IX., Part 2 ; Proceedings of the Holmes- 

 dale Natural History Club, 1890-2 ; Essex Naturalist, April-May, 

 1893; Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society, 1892 

 (Chapel Hill, North Carolina); Transactions of the New York 

 Academy of Sciences, Vol. XI., pp. 49-58 ; Reports of the Botany 

 and Geology of Sierra Leone, presented by Mr G. F. Scott-Elliot ; 

 Report of the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club, 1892-3 ; Notes on 

 Potamogetons, by Mr Arthur Bennett ; Insecta, by Dr David 

 Sharp, F.R.S, 



