PROCEEDINGS AND TRANSACTIONS 



OF TUE 



DUMFRIESSHIRE AND GALLOWAY 



NATURAL HISTORY AND ANTIQUARIAN 

 SOCIETY. 



SESSION 1886-8 7. 



Isi Ocfnhpr, 1886. 

 ANNUAL MEETING. 



Dr Griersox, President, in tlie Cliair. Twenty-three 

 members present. 



Neio Member — Mr "W. J. Maxwell of Terraughtie, Dumfries. 



Donations. — The Secretary laid on the table the 5th Annual 

 Report of tlie United States Geological Survey ; the Annual 

 Report of the Smitlisonian Institution for 1884 ; Report of the 

 Peabody Museum, 1885, as donations from the Smitlisonian 

 Institution ; and two numbers of the Pliytologist containing lists 

 of local liepatics and mosses from Mr Peter Gray. A land-rail 

 (Crex pratensinj from Mr W. J. Maxwell, Terregles Banks. 



Exhibits. — Mr George Johnstone exhibited two pieces of the 

 sandstone rock from Corseliill Quarry, near Annan, in the shape 

 of a man's foot and leg, and remarked that they were of this 

 shape when quarried. The Chairman explained that he believed 

 these two curiously shaped stones to be the casts of plants, (fee, 

 formed at the time of the deposition of the rock by the removal 

 of the original substance, the sand filling the vacant places. 

 There were no characteristic markings to enable the determining 

 of the species. The Chairman exhibited several specimens of the 

 Cotton Moth, which had been sent him by Dr Grant Bei/, of 

 Cairo. This moth (Farias LisulanaJ was first discovered in 

 Madagascar, and is known to be very destructive to the cotton 



