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illness compelled him to relinquish the active duties of the 

 ministry, and a colleague was appointed in 1884 • but the 

 pastoral tie with Kirkmahoe was only dissolved by death, having 

 subsisted for sixty-five years. He also acted for half-a-century 

 as clerk to the Free Church Presbytery of Dumfries, an appoint- 

 ment which evinced the confidence reposed in him by his clerical 

 brethren, and for which he was well qualified by his intimate 

 knowledge of ecclesiastical law and forms of procedure, and by 

 his clear intellect. Mr Andson was a man of cultured mind and 

 studious habits. He took a special interest in meteorology, and 

 for a period of twenty-two years he took daily observations with 

 the most painstaking care, which were published weekly in the 

 press and communicated to the Scottish Meteorological Society 

 and to this society. He also, at the request of the Scottish 

 Meteorological Society, conducted and superintended an extended 

 series of observations on river and estuary temperature, in 

 the Nith and the Galloway Dee ; and he was the local observer 

 for the British Rainfall Association. Archjeological studies 

 appealed to him, and he contributed several papers in this depart- 

 ment to our Transactions. In the proceedings of the Society he 

 took a constant and helpful interest. He held for some years the 

 office of Vice-President, and was until his death Joint Librarian 

 and a member of the Council. His colleagues in the society and 

 friends beyond it will long cherish the fragrant memory of his 

 kindly presence and unvarying courtesy. 



The Second Romantic Period of English Literature. By 

 Mr Wm. Learmonth, F.E.I.S. 



In the year 1740 there was published Warton's poem, " The 

 Enthusiast, or The Lover of Nature," and I choose to see in it 

 the starting point of the Romantic Revival, expressing as it does 

 that love of solitude, and that yearning for the spirit of a bye- 

 gone age which are especially associated with the genius of the 

 Romantic School of Poetry. 



One critic will not allow to any poetry before 1780 the name 

 of romantic. A number choose 1765, the date of the publica- 

 tion of Percy's " Reliques," as the beginning of the period. And 

 there are some — and Mr Theodore Watts Dunton is of the number 



