246 Transactions. 



Town Council on the 7tli of December, 1740, regulating the extent and 

 method of payment of the burgh's expenses in public-houses. 



"Ind of May, 1890. 

 Major BOWDEN in the Chair. 



New Member. — On the motion of the Secretary Mr J. G. 

 Baker, F.R.S., curator of the Kew Botanical Gardens, was elected 

 an honorary member. 



Donations. — Proceedings of the Natural History Society of 

 Glasgow, 1887-9 ; Proceedings of the Nova Scotian Institute of 

 Natural Science, 1888-9 ; Annals of the New York Academy of 

 Sciences ; the Seventh Annual Report for 1885-6 of the United 

 States Geological Survey. 



Mr Scott Elliot made a report of his preliminary efforts in 

 procuring assistants for forming a Flora of the district, and the 

 formation of an Herbarium for Dumfriesshire and Galloway. 



The Dimviddie Library. 

 The Secretary read the following letter, received through Mr 

 Robert Stoba, Solicitor, from Mr Robert Dinwiddle, of New York. 



Brae Side, Scarboeough-on-Hudson, 

 New York, 1st March, 1890. 



To Dr Edward J. Chinnock, 

 Secretary of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural 

 History and Antiquarian Society, 

 Dumfries, Scotland. 



Sir, 



Mr Robert Stoba has kindly consented to 



hand you with this letter two cases of books as per enclosed list, for- 

 merly the property of my late father, Robert Dinwiddle, a native of 

 Dumfries, and, as I believe, a member of your Society. These books 

 were bequeathed in his will to me, but 1 have concluded to offer them 

 to your Society in the hope that they may prove of value to its members 

 in many ways. I trust that they may prove acceptable to your Society, and 

 find a permanent home among the fellow-townsmen of my father, and I 

 desire that they shall be added to your library of reference, and bo 

 known as the " Robert Dmwiddie Library," and held subject to such 

 regulations that, while promoting to the utmost usefulness to all 

 members of your Society, they will still be protected as far as is possible 

 from loss, destruction, or mutilation. In presenting these books to 



