Proceedings and Transactions 



OP THE 



DUMFRIESSHIRE AND GALLOWAY 



NflTURflL HISTORY X ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY. 



SEsszonsr iqoq-io. 



20th October, 1909. 



ANNUAL MEETING. 



Chairman— Mr William Dickie, V.P. 



The Secretary and Treasurer submitted their annual reports 

 which were approved of. ' 



As Professor Scott-Elliot desired to be relieved of the duties 

 of President, Mr Hugh S. Gladstone was appointed to that posi- 

 tion. ^ 



On the recommendation of the Council the Olfice-bearers 

 were appomted for the Session (See p. 3). 



Dust and its Importance to Plant Life. By Professor G. F. 

 Scott-Elliot. 



In some parts of Switzerland, and at certain seasons of the 

 year enormous clouds of pollen are blown from the pine forests ■ 

 much of this falls into the lakes, and great quantities are carried 

 up to the snowfields and black rocky precipices of the Alps, so 

 that one would think at first that there must be an appalling wasie 

 o pollen, for surely but one pollen grain in a hundred thousand 

 lulhls the purpose for which it was made. 



But a very sure rule in the working of plant life is that anv- 



