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eyes iigaiii. A friend of mine had a spill, but a schoolboy care- 

 fully gathered up the larger spelks of the tram of the broken 

 vehicle and made me a present of them, as he said, for my 

 museum. My bad debts in the long period of my residence might 

 all be paid with that current coin of the realm upon -which is 

 engraved the figure of th(^ war-like saint vanquishing tlie dragon. 



bth April, 1895. 

 Mr Thomas M'Kie, F.S.A., Vice-President, in the Cliair. 



New Members. — Messrs John M. Aitken, Norwood, Lockerbie ; 

 J. H. Edmondson, Riddingwood ; and William M. Maxwell, 

 Bank House. 



Donations. — The Bulletin of the Geological Institution of the 

 University of Upsala, 1893-4 ; the Annual Report of the 

 Smithsonian Institution, 1893. 



Exhibits. — Mr James Barbour, on behalf of Captain R. C. 

 Fergusson of Craigdarroch, exhibited 13 burgess tickets held by 

 the Captain's predecessors, and also a diploma of admission to the 

 Revolution Club, Edinburgh, 1755, to James Fergusson of 

 Craigdarroch. 



Communications. 



1. Troqueer in the Olden Time. 



By J. G. Hamilton-Starke, M.A., F.S.A. 



The annals of the parish of Troqueer are to be gathered chiefly 

 from the memoirs of the Rev. Mr Blackader, who was ordained 

 its minister in 1653 ; from the Kirk -session records, which begin 

 in 1698; and from the "Old and New Statistical Accounts" 

 written in 1791 by the Rev. Mr Ewart, and in 1844 by the 

 Rev. Mr Thorburn, two of its parish ministers. 



But these accounts are more or less fragmentary, and the 

 fullest history of the parish appeared in the columns of the 

 Dumfries and Galloway Courier during the months of July, 

 August, and September, 1878, in which the old authorities were 

 revised, the minutes of the Kirk-session carefully deciphered, and 

 for the first time most of them published, together with full 

 information up to that year upon almost every subject of public 

 interest within the parish. 



