PROCEEDINGS AND TRANSACTIONS 



OF THE 



DUMFRIESSHIRE AND GALLOWAY 



Nalural History and Antiquarian Society. 



oXXo 



SESSIOIT 188V-88. 



nth October, 1887. 



ANNUAL MEETING. 



Mr James G. H. Starke, M.A., Vice-President, in the Chair. 

 Twenty-six members present. 



Neio Member. — Mr ^Yilliam Moodie, Solicitor. 

 Donations. — A section of the rock obtained from the sinking 

 of the Artesian Well at Troqueer Mills, from Mr W. A. F. Coup- 

 land ; two specimens of native ore — silver and copper — and a large 

 barnacle, from Dr Bruce of Castle Dykes ; a stone whorl found at 

 Canonbie, from Mr William M'Dowall ; a MS. cojjy of the Minute 

 Book of the Trades Incorporation of the date IGOl, from Mrs 

 Pearce ; the 6th Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology 

 (United States) ; the Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution, 

 1885 ; three Annual Reports of the EHsha Mitchell Society ; the 

 Transactions of the Glasgow Natural History Society, the Belfast 

 Naturalists' Society, the New York Academy of Sciences ; the 

 Annual Report of the British Association, 1886 ; nine parts of the 

 Journal of the Linnean Society, from Mr Robinson-Douglas ; and 

 eight volumes of the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, for 

 ^■which the Committee had exchanged Ethnological specimens from 

 New Zealand. 



