lU Trai/ndclioitn. 



1st Fdtruary, 1884. 



Dr Gilchrist, President, in tlie Chair. Tliirty 

 members present. 



The Secretary intimated that the Society was about to lose one 

 of its energetic members — INIr J. M'Meekan — who would in a 

 few days leave this country for Tasmania, and moved that Mr 

 M'Meekan's name be transferred from the Roll of Ordinary to 

 that of tlie Corresponding Members. The Chairman seconded 

 the motion, and remarked that Mr M'Meekan was one of the 

 few young men who had taken an active interest in the Society 

 for several years. He liad done what all young men ought to do 

 — he had never missed an opportunity of gaining knowledge and 

 information, and he would find now that there was nothing to 

 him so important. The motion was unanimously agreed to. 



Donations and Uxhibits. — The Secretary laid on the table 

 Vol. II., Part III., of tlie Proceedings of the Pertlisliire Society 

 of Natural Science, and Vol. II., Part III., of the Transactions 

 of the Glasgow Archseological Society, as donations from these 

 Societies. Dr Gilchrist exhibited a small chicken that had been 

 born blind, and remarked that this malformation was of rare 

 occurrence in ornithology. He also exhibited a piece of slate 

 from Keswick, containing vestiges of the original stratification. 



Communications. 



I. The Founder of Lincluden AJ>hey and his Relatives. 

 By Mr W. M'Dowall. (Abstract). 

 In this paper Mr M'Dowall stated tliat Galloway at the 

 Lincluden era was not only Celtic in its population, insti- 

 tutions, and language ; it was besides, all but independent 

 of the Scottish Crown. It was in the neighbourhood of 

 Northallerton, amid conditions of battle and slaughter, that 

 we get our first reliable glimpse of Ulgric and Dovenald, the 

 founders of the family to whom we owe the erection not only of 

 Lincluden Abbey, but also of many other edifices, chiefly ecclesi- 

 astical, in our own locality. The name Owen Galons appears in 

 the early part of the eleventh century annals as a ruler over some 

 Celtic ti'ibes ; and, says Mr M'Kenzie, in his valuable History of 

 Galloway — " There is a considerable probahility that this chief 

 was descended from Duuvvallon — the British form of the Irish 



