Proceedings and Transactions 



OF TIIK 



Dumfriesshire and Galloway 



NATURAL HISTORY &>NT1QUARIAN SOCIETY, 

 Session, 1895-96. 



23th Octoher, 1895. 



ANNUAL M E E T I N G. 



Mr .lAMES G. IT. Starke, M.A., in llie chair. 



NriV AIc7nbei-s. — Mr William Mair (iraham, Mossknowe ; 

 (';ilonol Edward JNIackenzie, Auchenskeocli ; Dr James Maclachlaii, 

 Lockorbie. Mr William Galloway, Whithoru; and Dr James 

 ^racdonald, Edinburg-h, were also elected honorary members. 



Donations and Exhilnfs. — The following- pul)lications [u-e- 

 sented by the curators of the Smith.sonian Institution : — Archfeo- 

 log-ical Investig-ations in the James and Potomac Eivers ; Siouan 

 Ti'ibes of the East ; Chinook Texts ; An Ancient Quarr}' in Indian 

 Territory ; List of Publications of the Bureau of Ethnology ; U.S. 

 Geological Survey*. 1 892-93 ; Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 

 2 vols., 1889-91 ; Survey of the Rocky ]Mountains, vol. ix. ; 

 Xorth American Fauna, No. 8. The Proceedings of the Academv 

 of Sciences, Philadelphia, lS9.j ; Pi-oceedings of the Society of Anti- 

 quaries of Scotland, 1894 ; Report of Marlboroug-h Colleg-e Natural 

 Ilistorv Societv. 1891 : Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific 



