CONTENTS. 



SESSION 1910-11. 



Page. 



Office-Bearers for 1910-11 3 



Annual Meeting ... ... ... ... 9 



Presidential Address — fftigh S. Gladstone ... ... .. ... ... 10 



The Gre3'friars' Convent of Dumfries — Jame-'^ Barbour ... ... ... 18 



The Drysdales of Dollar and their Dumfriesshire origin — Eei\ Robert 



Paul 36 



Communion Tokens, with Descriptive Catalogue of those of Dumfries- 

 shire— i?(?c. H. A. Whitelaw 36 



A Journey to London in 1840, by Thomas Murray — John A. Fairley ... 126 

 Notes on Buller's Ex]>eriments on the Ejection of the Spores of 



Hymenomj-cetes — R. B. Johnstone ... . ... ... ... 176 



Kenmure Castle— Jawes' ^j^€f A- ... ... ... 176 



The Dumfries Post Office, Part I., 1642-1848—/. M. Gome 194 



Local Plant Names -5^. ^r?io« 195 



The Market Cross of Dumfries •-(?. W.Shirley 201 



Note ou an Ancient Ash Tree near Dalswinton House known as 



" Cummin's Ash "— 7?. .9. Gladstone . 214 



The English Raids on Dumfries in 1570 — G. W.Shirley 217 



The Formation and Age of the Queensberrys, Illustrated by Grapto- 



lites — Rcberl Wallace 245 



The. 'Rh'mns oi QaWo-w&y— Andrew Donaldson ... ... ... .. 254 



Weather of 1910 in Relation to Health— Dr J. Maxtvell Rosa 255 



Weather and Natural History Notes, 1910— /. i??(^Aer/brd 263 



Rainfall Records of the Southern Counties for the year 1910 — And)-ew 



Watt 270 



Charters relating to Newabbey — Dr E. J. Ghinnock ... 272 



The Galloway Highlands — Rev. C. H. Dick 278 



Stoneykirk — Hints as to its History from Place Names — Rev. G. Philip 



Robertson ... ... ... ... ... .. ... 279 



Arboriculture as a Hobby — W. H. Whellens ... ... 284 



The Ballad of Kinmont Willie— i^mJiA; MiZfer 292 



Letters of Horning directed against the Armstrongs, 1582 — G. W. 



Shirley 298 



Bird Life in the South of Scotland— IT. /. Payne 302 



Thelsle of Saints— IF. J. ifacAJ?me?^ \ ...302 



Notes on the Hepaticte and Mosses of the Three South- Western Coun- 

 ties of Scotland — James M'Andreiv ... ... .-.. 306 



