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DISCHARGE. 



Purchase of Books and Journals 



Binding Books 



Stationery ... 



Printing and Advertising 



Gas ... 



Secretary's outlays (Mr Wilson) 

 Do. do. (Mr Barbour) 



Treasurer's do. (Mr Thomson) 



Hall Keeper's Salary .. 



Commission on Ai-rears to Mr Brown ... 



Transactions — Printing and Binding — 

 Akerraan, London, for Plates 

 Herald, Printing and Binding 



Balance at close of Session — Gash in hand 



£.*?9 IS 10 

 Dumfries, 3rd Dec, 1888. — I have examined the Treasurer'.s Accounts 

 and relative Vouchers, and find them correctly stated. 



MILES M'INNES, Auditor. 



Communications. 



I. The Tumulus and Stone-Circles at Cauldside. By Mr 

 Frederick K. Coles (abridged). 



The remains noticed in this paper are a mound of smallish 

 rounded granite boulders sloping sharply up from a broad circular 

 base to a summit some 10 feet wide. Its height is from ten to 

 twelve feet ; the base composed of a ridge of large and flatter 

 stones, and guarding this there is a strong ring of much larger 

 granite boulders, evidently embedded to keep the rest in position. 

 The diameter of this base is sixty feet. In the centre of the heap 

 of stones is a well-defined Kist-vaen. The lid and sides are of 

 whinstone slabs, four feet three inches by two feet and six or seven 

 inches thick. The grave lies open, having been explored many 

 years ago, I believe, by Mr James Faed, but as to its contents I 

 can learn nothing. 



Thirty feet S.E. from the outer ring of boulders stand the 

 remains of a stone circle. [It is ridiculous, in the face of recent 

 antiquarian research, to use the term " Druidical " in connection 

 with stone circles.] Its diameter is sixty -six feet. It is without 

 trace of any central monolith, and the stones composing it were 



