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PRESENTATIONS. 



3r(l November, 1911. — Mr M. H. M'Kerrow — Engraving of Sir 

 Thomas Kirkpatrick of Closeburn ; Copy of the Catalogue of the 

 Scottish Historical Exhibition, Glasgow, 1911. 



17th November, 1911— Mr R. C. Reid of Mousv.ald Place— Perforated 

 Stone Axe found on Drummuir Farm, Torthorwald Parish, in 

 Aug-ust, 1911. Measurements: 11 in. bj- 3f in. (at broadest part 

 in centre) by 2^ in. in thickness. Perforation, 1| in. across. 



Dr Rutherford of Mountainhall — ^Camden's "Britannia," 

 ed. by Edward Gibson, 1722. 2 vols., folio. 



]9th January, 1912. — Anonymous — Four Charters relating to the 

 Lands of Glengaber and Morrington. The first of these, dated 

 20th May, 1556, was granted by Thomas Campbell, Commen- 

 dator of the Abbey of Holy wood, to John and Cuthbert Morrin. 

 and was signed by the Commendator and by David Welclie, John 

 Lytill, and Kenneth M'Gee, brothers in the monastery. The 

 other charters are dated 5th Feb., 1574; 31st May, 1593; 12tli 

 April, 1595. 



Rev. Henry Paton, Edinburgh — " Register of the Rev. 

 John Macmillan. Being a Record of Marriages and Baptisms 

 solemnised by him among the Cameronian Societies,'' edited by 

 Rev. Henry Paton, M.A., Edinburgh. 1908. 



Mr Clement Reid, F.R.S.— " The Irish Naturalist," Vol. 

 XX., No. 12, containing article on " The Relation of the Present 

 Plant Population of the British Isles to the Glacial Period," by 

 the donor. 



16th February, 1912.— Mr Robert Wallace— Collection of Fossil. 

 Plants : 



Upper Cauboniferous. 



Crichope Burn — Jockie's Syke, Netherbie— 

 6 Specimens Neuropteris ovato. -' Specimens Annularia. 



12 Do. Neuropteris (?). 2 Do. Lepididendron. 



3 Do. Fern Stems. 3 Do. Fern Stems. 



2 Do. of Rootlets. 5 Do. Neuropteris SchiKeri. 

 1 Do. of Ironstone. 



Byreburnfoot (R. Esk)— 



3 Grey Shales. 



5 Black Shales, containing Neuropteris Pinnuli. 



Ml- Wallace said: — I wish to draw your attention to the economic 

 aspect of the Closeburn Basin in its relation to coal. The 

 memoir of the geological survey describes the rocks of that basin 

 as belonging whoUv to the lower Carboniferous formation ; but 



