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T^KANSACTIONS. 



•'''' '^ - 4prU, 1889. 



At .a moetina; of the Council, at i. ,.,,.. „ , ,,„ 

 . , 1 , o ° . ,. ^ 1 .1 0. I'uch Maior Bowdeii, V.-P., 



presKU'd, the becretary intimated that he a , , . , 



. / , T.^ -r T,^,^, -11 p Tv/r iiad received a communi- 



cation throuiili Mr James M"Gill, irom Mr Iv., -n /-,, , ^ ^i 



,. T. , rr. • 1 B. Clark, one of the 



late Mr Baxter s Trustees, proposing on the pa „ , „ 



that a collection of coins, which belonc;ed to Mr £.-, ^ , , , , 



•, . , , P ,, n ■ . 7r .1 m axter, should be 



placed in the custody oi the Society (tor the iown . 



. , , , . n^i /-, -1 IX Council) along 



with the other specimens. The Council agreed to iv ^ xi 



• , •, p TT T. i. iccept these 



coins together with crayon portraits or Mr Jcaxter ana ^ .\ . 



and instructed the Secretary to convey the thanks of the- . ' 



to Mr Clark. ' ^^^^ ^ 



bth of April, 1889. \ 



Major BowDEN, V.-P., in the Chair. 



Ne-iv Member.- — Mr Joseph Wilson, late Hon. Secretary, on . 

 the recommendation of the Council, was elected an honorary mem- 

 ber of the Society. 



Donations. — Transactions of the Society of Antiquaries of 

 Scotland for 1887-88, and Reports on Local Museums in Scotland, 

 l^resented by Mr G. F. Black ; the 22nd Eeport of the Peabody 

 Museum and an Index to their Reports ; the Essex Naturalist for 

 November and December, 1888 ; and two squirrels (local), pre- 

 sented by Mr Joseph Wilson ; and also two tokens of Sanquhar, 

 presented by Dr A. Davidson. 



Communications. 



1. Words in the Dialect of Djimfriesshire, found in Chaucer, 

 Spenser, and Shakespeare. By Mr James Shaw of Tynron. 

 (Abridged.) 



To Beat, Bete, or Beet, Beit. To help ; supply ; mend by making 

 addition ; to add fuel to a fire ; to make or feed a fire. 



— -Janiieson. 

 " Two fires on the anter she 'gan bete." 



— Ch., Canterbury Talts. 

 " They chant their artless notes in simple guise, 

 Perhaps Dundee's wild warbling measures rise, 

 Or noble Elgin beets the heavenward flame. " 



— Burns' s " Cottar' t: Satvrdaij Night.'" ^ 

 In Tynron beeting a dyke means mending it. 



