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PRESENTATIONS. 



October 6th, 1909.— Mr Thomas Henderson of Afton Lodge, 

 Lockerbie — Ancient Boat or Canoe, found in the Castle Loch, 

 Lochmaben, near its outlet. Length, 12 feet; greatest breadth, 

 3 feet ; flat bottomed. 



February 18th, 1910.— Mr S. Arnott -Cooke's Topography of Great 

 Britain. Part 49. 



EXHIBITS, 



December 3rd, 1909. — Mr R. Service — A number of specimens of 

 Birds to illustrate Mr Gladstone's Lecture, " The Sex Problem 

 in Birds." 



December 17th, 1909. — Mr W. Bell Common — Several New Zealand 

 Photographs, including views of the Pink Terraces. 



Mr John Cowan — Photograjjh of the Old Church of Quarrel- 

 iv'ood and the " Theological Discourses," 1808-9, 2 vols., by the 

 Rev. James Thomson. 



January 28th. 1910. — Mr James M'Cargo, Kirkpatrick-Durham — A 

 Sketch of a Sword, a recent antiquarian find, may be of interest 

 to some of the members, who, perhaps, may be able to throw 

 some light on the subject as to how it came to be there and the 

 peculiarity of its shape. It was found in the parish of Cars- 

 phairn on the farm of Brownhills, situate near the head of the 

 water of Deugh. Its position was on a bed of sand and gravel, 

 on which was super-imposed between two and three feet of peat 

 moss on the edge of a burn, which had been in spate previously, 

 and washed away a portion of the sides of the channel, thereby 

 exposing the white handle, casually observed by the finder when 

 passing. The sword is in very good condition all things con- 

 sidered. Its dimensions are about 3 f*t in length with white 

 bone handle, on which are some indistinct markings as if done 

 with a hot iron. The blade is corrugated or waved on back and 

 edge like a common bread knife within 4 inches of the ex- 

 tremity, where it shapes into two straight edged points. There 

 is no date or figures of any kind to be seen on the blade, but 



