162 ANNAN REFERENCE IN Diary OF GEORGE Fox. 
Scotland where Quakerism at that time had made considerable 
progress, Principal Robert Bailie, of Glasgow, in one of his 
letters specially mentions Douglas, and it will be remembered 
that Fox was on his way to Douglas when he had this very inter- 
view. Now, Lord Hartfell’s wife was a daughter of the first 
Marquis of Douglas, and it may quite well have happened that 
on one of his visits to Douglas Castle he had heard of this strange 
new sect that had so many quaint usages, that took literally 
Christ’s precept to “resist not evil,’’ and that set forth such a 
high and beautiful standard of Christian living, and that, owing 
to his interest having thus been aroused, he was eager to see and 
talk with its founder. 
Those considerations are, I admit, by no means conclusive, 
and they are only offered by way of suggestion. But until a 
better solution offers itself, I think we are entitled to say that 
there is a considerable degree of probability in the identification 
of the Earl with whom George Fox had this interview with James, 
second Earl of Hartfell, and of the house where it took place 
with the old Tower of Newbie. 
NATURAL History NOTES. 
Mr J. W. Payne submitted some notes on the natural history 
of the Annan district. | One of the most important discoveries of 
recent years, he said, was the finding in the sand of the Solway 
of a handsome specimen of the antlers of the large red deer which 
existed in the country about a thousand years ago, and was now, 
of course, extinct. |The specimen belonged to Mr Rutherford, 
Scott’s Street, Annan. He also shewed another specimen, hardly 
so fine as the first, belonging to Mr Watson, Greencroft, Annan. 
The antlers, he said, showed what a handsome animal the red 
deer had been. He also gave a few notes on the birds of the 
locality. |Last year he saw an interesting early nesting of the 
short-eared owl. This season a friend and he had found an 
early nest of the grey wagtail. He then showed various speci- 
mens of butterflies and moths, taken by Mr Douglas Watson, 
Greencroft. Included in the collection was a specimen of the 
convolvulus hawk moth, which had been caught in the neigh- 
bourhood of Annan during the year. He had received anony- 
mously from Australia a box containing one of the famous stick 
