•410 Exhibits. 



has a considerable number of other names, such as soursauce, 

 greensauce, soursuds, sourgrabs, sourdock, and soursabs. 



Others must be left for another time, if you should care to 

 have them, and, if so, I would bespeak your assistance and that 

 of others in endeavouring to compile a complete list of local 

 plant names. 



24th March, 1905. 



Chairman — Mr James Barbour, Vice-President. 



New Members.- — Mrs Wilson, Castledykes Cottage, Dum- 

 fries, and Mr Robert Service, jun., Janefield, Maxwelltown. 



Exhibits. — From Mr Beattie, of Davington, Eskdalemuir, 

 a finely-designed flint arrow-head and a bead, found when digging 

 foundations of new Magnetic Observatory at Eskdalemuir. Mr 

 Service explained that the bead was apparently of the kind found 

 in the grave mounds of the Saxon period. From Mr Thomson, 

 Hole-i'-the-wa' Inn, silver chain worn by Deacon of Weavers; 

 from Mr George Irving, Corbridge-on-Tyne, parchment, dated 

 1794, being a declaration of loyalty signed by inhabitants of the 

 parish of Closeburn, and a document from Francis Carlyle, 

 grand-uncle of Thomas Carlyle, to the trustees of Mr Sharpe of 

 Hoddom. The following are copies of Mr Irving's exhibits: — 



(a) Declaration of Loyalty by the Inhabitants of Closeburn 

 Parish. 

 " We whose names are hereunto subscribed do solemnly 

 declare that we are firmly attached to our present happy constitu- 

 tion as established in King, Lords, and Commons; that we 

 detest all those principles which of late have been attempted to 

 be disseminated in this kingdom by wicked and designing men 

 tending to subvert all regular government and to introduce 

 anarchy, and that we will assist the Government in repelling all 

 foreign enemies and assisting the civil magistrates whenever 

 called upon for suppressing of riots and tumults within the county 

 of Dumfries." Endorsed on the Declaration there was the 

 following note by Thomas Kirkpatrick, D.L. : — " None of the 



