PROCEEDINGS AND TRANSACTIONS 



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DUMFRIESSHIRE AND GALLOWAY 



NATURAL HISTORY & ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY. 



SESSION 1894-95. 



I8th October, 1894. 



ANNUAL MEETING. 



Mr William J. Maxwell, M.P., in the Chair. 



New Members. — Colonel Edward Blackett of Arbigland and 

 Mr William Barber of Terreran. Mr Frederick R. Coles, of 

 Edinburgh, was elected an honorary member. 



Donations. — Cooke & Berkeley's Fungi, presented by Mr 

 William Thomson, Kirkcudbright ; Annals of the New York 

 Academy of Sciences, 1894 ; Report of the British Association, 

 1893 ; Catalogue of Grierson's Museum, presented by Mr J. R. 

 Wilson; Belfast Naturalists' Field Club, 1894; Report of 

 Marlborough College Natural History Society, 1893 ; Proceed- 

 ings of Natural Science Association of Staten Island, 1893 ; 

 Transactions of Canadian Institute, 1894; Report of Kirkcaldy 

 Naturalists' Society ; Cystopteris Montana in Stirlingshire and 

 Records from the Scilly Isles, by A. Somerville. 



Secretary's Report. 



The Secretary (Dr E. J. Chinnock) read the Annual Report : — 

 There are 182 members of the Society, of wliom 19 are honorary 

 and 8 life members. Ten new members were elected during the 

 year. The Society sustained a loss by the removal from the 

 town of two active members, Mr Robert M'Glashan and the 

 Rev. Robert Macintosh. This was somewhat counterbalanced 

 by the accession to our working membership of Mr Peter Grav, 



