SESSIO^sr, lQOl-2. 



18th OCTOBER, 1901. 



ANNUAL MEETING. 



The Rev. John Caiens, M.A., in the Chair. 



Nezv Members. — Mr William M'Cutcheon, B.Sc, Assistant 

 Science Master, The Academy ; Mr Laidlaw, Plasterer, Loclcerbie. 



Donations and Exchanges. — Annual Report of the Barrow 

 Naturalists' P'ield Club for 1899. Communications of the National 

 Museum of Buenos Ayres, 1901, Vol. 1. Proceedings of the Nova 

 Scotia Institute of Science, X., Part 2. The Session Book of 

 Bunkle and Preston, 1665-1690, printed for the Berwickshire 

 Naturalists' Club. Annual Reports of the Smithsonian Institute 

 for 1897 and 1899. 



Exhibits. — Dr Martin, Holywood, showed (1) specimen of a 

 Lamprey (Petromyzon marinus), caught on the rocks at East 

 Cluden this summer, 22 inches in length, and evidently a female; 

 (2) male and female purple saw fly (Sirex purpureus), taken at 

 East Cluden in August of this year; (3) white variety of Knap- 

 weed (Centaurea nigra), found in a field at Upper Cluden ; and (4) 

 Phallus or Stinkhorn in fluid, with section to show the bursting of 

 the young phallus and its relation to the older plant. 



Mr Moodie, on behalf of Mr James Barbour, exhibited the 

 following articles, discovered at the bottom of the fosse of 

 Comlongon Castle which had been recently excavated, (1) a 



