moo flo BS. 
Ordinary Meetings of the Society are generally held on the 
Ist and 3rd Fridays of each month of the winter session, which 
begins in October. Papers on Natural History Antiquarian, and 
Scientific subjects, with occasional lectures, are given at these 
meetings. 
Exhibits cognate to the work of the Society are also shown 
at these Meetings, and the co-operation of members in increasing 
the number of exhibits is solicited. 
Field Meetings are held during the Summer Months as may 
be arranged. 
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The Society’s “Transactions ’’ are published annually, and 
are distributed among the members free of charge. Non- 
members can purchase copies from the Treasurer, Mr M. H. 
M‘Kerrow, 30 St. David Street, Dumfries, from whom any back 
numbers in stock can be purchased. 
The Society’s Library, which includes a number of Natural 
History, Archzeological, and Scientific Works, and a series of 
the “Transactions ’’’ of many of the leading learned societies, 
with which this society is in correspondence, is available for refer- 
ence in the Ewart Public Library, Dumfries. Members of the 
Society have the privilege of borrowing these books on applica- 
tion to the Librarian at the Library. 
The Society’s Museum and Herbarium, which contains an 
almost complete collection of specimens of the local flora, are 
available for reference in the Library. 
“The Reliquary,’’ “The Scottish Historical Review,’’ and 
“The Annals of Scottish Natural History ’’ are circulated quar- 
