iv. Index. 



Evolution, The Ideas of — Professor Scott-Elliot 257 



Comyn, The Assassination of the Red, from Contemporary Records — 



E. J. Chinnock, LL.D 263, 298 



The Sparrow Hawk— i?o6er< .Serwce, il/. 5.0. C''. 273 



.Scottish Life in the 17th Century — W.Dickie 279 



Burial Mound at Bogrie—7?o6e?-< .S'eri'ice, 71/. 5.0. £7 309 



Arrow Heads and Stone Whorls from Townhead of Closeburn — Robert 



Service, M.B.O.U. 309 



Pre-historic RedDeer of Solway— 7?o?)ert 5'e)-m-e, J/.S.O.U" 309 



Merkland Cross and the Rere Cross — Georrje Irving ... ... ... 310 



Trees — Professor Scott- Elliot ... ... ... 314 



Edward I. at Sweetheart Abbey — E. J . Chinnock, LL.D. 318 



How the Royal Burgh of Annan built a Bridge — James Barbour, 



F.S.A. (Scot.) 320 



Diurnal and ISIocturnal Raptorial Birds of the Solway Area — Robert 



Service, M.B.O.U. 327 



The^nowdi-o^—S. Arnott, F.R.H.S. 339 



Laws of Fines for the Pi-esbytery of Dumfries- -i?er. /?. W. Weir ... 358 



Scottish Words found in Old English Writers — E. J. Chinnock, LL.D. 358 



Geological Notes — James Watt ... .. ... ... 3f>9 



Vestiges of the Castle of Dumfries — James Barbour, F.S.A. (Scot. J ... 362 



Chi\e— Professor Scott- Elliot 368 



Eorests : Wild and Cultivated — Augustine Henry, M.A., F.L.S., <SsC... 375 



Biblical Money, and Coins of the Holy Land — Rev. H. A. Whitdaw ... 376 



Burial Urns found in Maxwelltown Park ... ... ... ... ... 377 



Japanese Larch and Larch Fungus — W.Murray ... ... ... 386 



Birds observed on Solway— 5. J/' Ca« 388 



Annan, Extracts from Burgh Records of — James Barbour, F.S.A. 



(Scot.) 390 



Sedum Telephium— IF. il/'dtdcAeon, 5.S(- 394 



An Antiquary's Notes — George Neil son, IjL.D. ... ... ... ... 395 



Some Local and other Popular Plant Names — .S'. Arnott, F.R.H.S. ... 404 



Declaration of Loyalty by Inhabitants of Closeburn 410 



Letter from Francis Carlyle, grand-uncle of Thomas Carlyle ... ... 411 



The Weavers' Incorporation of Dumfries — W.Dickie ... ... ... 411 



Kinnelhead, Notes on the Ruins at — J. T. Johnstoi'e ... 421 



Rarer Birds of the Solway Aren—Robert Service, M.B.O. U. 423 



Experiments with Cutting the Leaves of Plants— Mrs Atkinson ... 436 



