SESSION 1885-86. 



Society's New Rooms, Id October, 1885. 



ANNUAL MEETING. 



Dr GUfcHRiST, President, in the Chair. Twenty members present. 



Neio Members. — Mr George Thomson, solicitor, Dumfries ; Mr 

 R. P. Fotheringham, Dumfries ; Rev. R. F. MuUins, Dumfries ; 

 Rev. J. H. Oswald, Miss Mounsie, Miss Nicholson, Thornhill ; 

 Mr J. R. Wilson, Sanquhar ; and Mr Lindsay, The Holm, 

 Sanquhar. 



Donations. — Rev. Mr Weir presented, on behalf of the Presby- 

 tery of Dumfries, two books, entitled " Scotia Illustrata sive 

 Prodromus Historiaj Naturalis" and "Insectorum sive Minimorum 

 Animalium Theatrum" (1634). The Secretary laid on the table 

 the Transactions of the Edinburgh Geological Society and of the 

 Edinburgh Geographical Society, donations from these Societies ; 

 Vol. V. of the United States Geological Survey, from the Smith- 

 sonian Institution ; one part of the Microscopical Journal, and 

 several parts of the Transactions of the Edinburgh Botanical 

 Society from Dr Allan. 



Exhibits. — The Cliairman exhibited a number of minerals and 

 specimens of rocks and some plants collected by him in the north 

 of Scotland in the preceding summer. 



Seci{Etaiiy's Report. 



The Secretary (Mr J. Wilson) submitted the following report: 

 — In presenting this general report for the past session, I am 

 happy to state that the Society has ever been mindful of the 

 objects for which it was instituted, and has attended to them 

 with some degree of success, as will be seen from the various 

 details which we now submit. 



At the Annual Meeting last year tliere were 204 names on the 

 roll, comprising 4 life, 182 ordinary, and 18 honorary members. 

 During the session I life member, 9 ordinary, and 2 honorary 

 members' names were added, but 26 were removed — 6 by death, 

 and 20 others due to removal from the district, resignation, or 



