PROCEEDINGS AND TRANSACTIONS 



OF THE 



DUMFRIESSHIRE AND GALLOWAY 



NATURAL HISTORY I ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY. 



SEssionsr, isoo-i. 



26th October, 1900. 



ANNUAL MEETING. 

 Mr James Barbour, F.S.A., Architect, in the chair. 



JVeiv Me7nbers. — Mr R. Y. Pickering of Conheath ; Mr Eobert 

 G. Mann, Cairnsmore, Dumfries ; Mr W. H. Veitch, Hoddom 

 Estate Office ; Mr Charles Watson, Solicitor, Anuan ; Mr James 

 Ballautyne, Editor, Courier and Herald ; and Mr Bertram M'Gowan, 

 Solicitor, Dumfries. 



Donations and Exchanges. — Memoirs of Peabody Museum I., 

 1, 2, 3, 4. New York Academy of Sciences, the Devonian Lam- 

 prey. Transactions of Canadian Institute, semi-Centenuial Memorial 

 Volume ; Bulletin of the Geological Institution of the University 

 of Upsala; Communicaciones del Museo Nacional de Buenos 

 .Ayres, Tomo I., 6 ; Year-book of the Department of Agriculture, 

 U.S.A., 1899 ; Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scot- 

 land, 1898-99 ; Proceedings and Transactions of the Nova Scotian 

 Institute of Science, X., 1 ; U.S. Department of Agriculture, 

 Legislation for Protection of Birds, Revision of American Voles 



