8 Transactions. 



Covenanters in subsequent times. He should like to know more 

 than we do know about those events and the part which our fore- 

 fathers played in them. He should like to know what they really 

 did in 1745, and why they did it. These were considerations 

 which would go entirely beyond the scope of the address which 

 he was now offering to them. But if antiquarian zeal would direct 

 itself — as indeed it had, he knew — would direct itself fully and 

 sedulously in these paths, he believed that it would furnish most 

 valuable and most interesting materials for the future historian 

 and in the meantime for the present literary student, to whom such 

 efforts should be communicated. In conclusion, the hon. and 

 learned gentleman said what he had done had been merely to try 

 and show them what he should be were he an antiquarian, and the 

 lines on which he should study; which was indeed presumptuous on 

 his part. He hoped, therefore, they would not imagine, when he : 

 had been endeavouring to point out the interest which these 

 subjects had to him, that he meant to disparage the other avenues! 

 of antiquarian interest, which he knew abounded, and in which,] 

 probably, this district was equally fertile. All that he wished to | 

 convey was that, even apart from personal and individual interest i 

 attaching to inquiry and research, there was a real future — a great 

 future, he believed — which might be appreciated, and the import- 

 ance of which might be understood and ascertained even now, for 

 antiquarian studies of the character which bound this society! 

 together. 



10th JYovemher, 1893. 



Mr Thomas M'Kie, Vice-President, in the chair. 



New Members. — Mr A. W. Findlay, Solicitor; Mr John] 

 Halley, Inland Revenue ; Mr John R Wilkinson, Annan. Mr] 

 Alexander D. Murray, of Newcastle, formerly Secretary of the| 

 Society, was elected an honorary member. 



Donations. — The Proceedings of the Nova Scotian Institute of 

 Science, 1891-2 ; Eeport of the Geological Survey of the United 

 States, 2 vols., 1889-90; Eeport of the Bureau of Ethnology, 

 1886-7 ; Prairie Ground Squirrels of the Mississippi Valley ; The 

 Bibliography of the Cliiu'iokian Languages ; Omaha Indian Music 



