CO^STTEnSTTS. 



Office-Bearers for 191112 3 



Annual Meeting ... ... .. 9 



Presidential Address— Huyh S. Gladstone ... ... ... 9 



Addenda and Corrigenda to " The Birds of Dumfriesshire" — Hugh S. 



Oladntcne ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 13 



The Dumfries Post Office, 1642-1910— /. J/. Oorrie 38 



The Scottish Parliament and the Sanquhar Representation Therein — 



Rev. W. McMillan 119 



Glenluce Abbey as it was and is— i?ec. A. Taylor Hill ... 129 



The Kirkcudbrightshire Coast— A'er. C. .CT. DiVi .. 135 



The Application of Electricity in Agriculture— Pro/e-jso)' /. W. Priestley 140 

 Electrical Treatment on Potato Crop.s, 1911 — Mia.-i E. C. Dudgeon ... 143 

 Some Notes on Estate Management in the Eighteenth Century — R. W. 



Milne 146 



The Blacklock Manuscripts at Annan— i^raM^• Jl/iWer 155 



The Carlyle Farm and Dwelling-place at Birrens ; Agricola's Well on 



Birrenswark Hill ; and a German Company's Copper Mine at 



Torbeckhill — all in the Parish of Middlebie — James Barbour ... 163 

 The Development of Modern Fish Culture, with Special Reference to 



the Salmonidte — Wilson H. Armistead . ... ... ... 169 



Notes on the Parish of Kirkgunzeon — Rev. J. E. Gillespie .. ... 177 



Scotch Forestry — The Romance and Business Side of it— (?. F. Scott 



Elliot 181 



John Welsh, the Irongray Covenanter— iJey. S. Dwiiloji ... ... ... 190 



Weather of 1911 in Relation to Health — Dr J. Maxwell Ross .. ... {101 



Rainfall Records for the Southern Counties for the year 1911 — Andrew 



Watt 210 



Abstract of Meteorological Observations taken at Crichton Royal 



Institution, Dumfries, 1911 212 



Weather and Natural History Notes for 1911 — J.Rutherford 214 



Some Local and other Plant Names — S. Arnott 223 



The Origin of the Name Dumfries— /. W. Whitelaw 229 



On the Name Dumfries— 6. W.Shirley ... 231 



The Crannogs in Carlingwark Loch — James Affleck 235 



The Market Cross of Sanquhar— if er. IF. iliikfiYtoi 241 



