320 Field Meetings. 



10th July, 1911. 



LIXCLUDEX MAIXS. 



On the in\'itation of Miss Dudgeon the members visited Lin- 

 cluden Mains to inspect the experiments being made in plant 

 culture by electricity. Miss Dudgeon explained her metliods and 

 showed the results of the treatment on potatoes and turnips. A 

 detailed report will be included in the next volir"e of the 

 Transactions. 



Provost Lennox moved a vote of thanks to Miss Dudgeon, 

 and Mr S. Arnott seconded. The Secretary proposed Mr Edward 

 Cornet as a member, and this was seconded bv Mr John Barker. 



23rd Sejytemher, 1911. 



CASTLEMILK. 



(From the Dumfries and Gallotvay Standard, 27th September, 



1911.) 



About twenty members visited Castlemilk on the in\-itation of 

 Sir Robert and Eady Buchanan Jardine, and had an opportunity 

 ol seeing the fine collection of pictures in the castle and the 

 beautiful and extensive gardens. In the gallery are examples of 

 the work of Tenniers, Morland, Sidney Cooper, Troyon, Herring, 

 Sam. Bough, and other celebrated painters ; and two well-known 

 Jacobite pictures of T. Duncan (Prince Charlie entering Edin- 

 burgh and Flora Macdonald watching over his sleep in a High- 

 land hut). The family portraits include full lengths of Sir Robert 

 and Lady Jardine and their son and daughter, by Ellis Roberts; 

 and the presentation portrait of the late Sir Robert subscribed for 

 by the Liberal electors of Dumfriesshire. The extensive conser- 

 vatories contain manv fruits and flowers of exceptional interest, 

 one striking object being a banana tree weighted with heavy 

 bunches of fruit. The bed of the Water of Milk, in which sand- 

 stone, whinstone, and breccia are exposed, attracted the atten- 

 tion of the geologists ; and opposite the gardens the remnants were 

 pointed out of the piers of a bridge which carried the old Carlisle 



