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ARCH^OLOGICAL DIVISION. 

 (Xamts of Exhibitors arc ijinn in Italics.) 

 Books. — Burns' Poems, 1st Edinlnirgh Edition (1787) ; a folio 

 Bible Concordance, which belonged to Burns when at EUisland 

 (1788); Carlyle's French Revolution, 1st Edition, -with autograph ; 

 twenty volumes by local authors in prose and poetry — Mr J. 

 Gibson Starke. Twenty-three volumes by local authors — Mr 

 James Lennox. History of Dumfries, Copy of Dr Burnside's 

 MS. History— J/r W. M'Math. Lectures by Dr Wightman 

 (Oliver ik Boyd, 1834) ; Sketches from Nature, by J. M'Diarmid 

 (1830); Collection of Reels, .fee, by James Porteous (1820); 

 George Thomson's Collection of Scots Songs, 4 vols. (1803) — Mr 

 F. Gilruth. Mr M'Diarmid's Scrap-book, 1 vol.; Sermons by Dr 

 Thomas Mutter, of the New Church ; Burns in Dumfries, by 

 M'Dowall ; Burns' Poems (small 8vo.); Observatory Catalogue ; 

 Burns, the Ploughman Poet — Mr Wellit-ood Anderson. Burns' 

 Poems, Kilmarnock Edition, complete — Mr J. R. Wilson. A 



large Bible that belonged to Allan Cunninghanj's fatiier Mrs 



Aitken. Philip INI'Cubbin's Bible— il/^r James M^Cubbin, El van- 

 foot. Several old books by local authors and others, annotated 

 l)y Burns— ^ei?. W. X. Dodds. A History of the Wars of 

 Montrose, annotated by Burns ; Transactions of the first Agri- 

 cultural Society of Dumfries (1776)— J/rs Aitken. A large 

 Scrap-book, containing interesting cuttings, and an old Valuation 

 Roll of Kirkcudbrightshire — Kirkcndhrhjht Museum. Valuation 

 Roll of Dumfries (1807), Valuation Roll of Kirkcudbright (1778) 

 — Mr Henry Gordon. Book by Smeaton ; Songs of Scotland by 

 Allan Cunningham— J/r J. Fergnsson. A Lithographed Book, 

 illustrating the different styles of writing, by Craik, a writin<^ 

 master in the Dumfries Academy — Mr S. Grierson. The first 

 volume of the Courier — The Courier and Herald Offices. 



BuRxs' Relics. — An exhibition of this description takin" 

 place in Dumfries would be singularly incomplete that did not 

 contain a number of interesting memorials of the poet Burns, 

 who was an honorary burgess of the town, lived in it, died in it, 

 is buried in it, and is its everlasting glory. On the occasion of 

 the Burns' Statue Bazaar, held in September, 1880, what was 

 perhaps the largest and richest collection of Burns' relics ever 

 seen was displayed in the Meclianics' Hall. A printed catalogue 

 of the relics, written by the well-informed and affectionate 



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