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portraits of Dumfriesshire and Galloway worthies and other 

 objects of local interest, on Tuesday, the 12th of November, till 

 Saturday, the 16th. Messrs Barbour, Chinnock, Davidson, Dickie, 

 Lennox, and Moodie were appointed a sub-committee to manage 

 the Exhibition. 



Donations. — Smithsonian Report for 1886, from Washington; 

 Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences ; Proceedings 

 of the Canadian Institute, Toronto ; Proceedings of the Academy 

 of Sciences, Davenport, Iowa ; Essex Naturalist from January to 

 June, 1889. Mr J. S. Thomson presented a fine specimen of blue 

 from Kimberley Diamond Mine. 



Communications. 



I. Notes on the Minerals of Diimjries and Galloway. By Mr 

 Patrick Dudgeon of Cargen. 



Until comparatively recent years the greater part of this 

 district has been almost a terra incognita as regards Mineralogy, 

 with the exception of the district of Wanlockhead and Leadhills, 

 which has for long attracted the attention of Mineralogists, from 

 the variety of beautiful specimens found there. One seldom 

 finds in any mineralogical work any notice of minerals to be 

 found in this south-west corner of Scotland ; of course a few have 

 been noticed, and the late Mr Copeland of Blackwood called 

 attention to several mineral localities in the district, but he does 

 not appear to have extended his researches to any great extent 

 in Galloway. Of course, Mineralogists are attracted in their 

 search for minerals to places where mining operations are going on, 

 or where they have been carried on, as it is from lead, copper, 

 iron mines, quarries, &c., that mineralogical specimens are most 

 likely to be procured, for reasons which will be obvious to 

 every one. 



Few metallic mines have been worked in the Stewartry, and 

 none that I am aware of in Wigtownshire, and none with any 

 great success. Many trials for lead, copper, and iron have been 

 made in different parts of the country, which have been abandoned, 

 but they have given mineralogists opportunities they might not 

 otherwise have had of making many additions to the very meagre 

 Hst of our local minerals, which, until very lately, were to be found 

 in mineralogical works. Since more attention in this direction has 

 been turned to this part of the country, a veiy large number of 



