CODSTTEITTS. 



SESSION 1909-10. 



PAGE. 



Office-Bearers for 1909-10 3 



Annual Meeting 9 



Dust and its Importance to Plant Life — Pr-ofessor G. F. Scott-EUiot ... 9 



The History of the Scottish Peat Mosses — Professor F. J. Lewis ... 19 



The Place Names of Irongray — Bev. S. Dtmloj) ... ... ... ... 20 



The Natural Regeneration of Forests — Frank Scott ... ... ... 24 



Presidential Address — Htigh S. Gladstone .. ... ... .. ... 31 



Notes on the Sex Problem in Birds— Hn/jh S. Gladstone ... ... ... 35 



Rev. James Thomson of Quarrelwood Reformed Presbyterian Church — 



Bev. W. M'Dowall 43 



Dry Rot in Timber — James Barbour ... ... ... ... 49 



The Scalacronica (Sir Thomas Gray), II. —Dr ^. J. C/iinnof^' ... ... 56 



Charters relating to Lincluden College — Dr E. J. Chinnock .. 83 



Notes on the British Starling — Bohert Service 100 



Some Wild or Common Fragrant Plants— & ^r??o« 103 



J. R. Wilson, Sancjuhar, Memorial Notice ... ... ... ... ... 108 



The Ruthwell Cress and the Story it has to Tell — Ber. J. L. Dinwiddie 109 



Weather and Natural History Notes for 1909— /. 7?M<Ae»;/brd 122 



Scenes from the Northern Sagas — B. Bremner ... 126 



The Geology of the Cluden Basin and its Relation to the Scenery — 



B. Wallace 128 



X-Rays Photography— X)r /. Z). i?o?wo»i 137 



Notes on Out-door Plant Photography— & ^r«o<< 137 



Some Incidents in Troqueer, 1690-1710— G. W.Shirley 138 



Autobiographical Notes by Thomas Murray, with Further Notes— 



J. A. Fair ley ... 162 



Eskdale and the Western Border— /. W. Beid 192 



