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tion in Dumfries do not require to be told that he has turned his 

 attention with good purpose also to the gathering of rare old 

 engravings. A very pleasant hour was spent in the gardens and 

 grounds, which are most tastefully laid out and beautifully kept. 

 The botanists found much on which to question their genial host, 

 and his store of information was readily at their command. 

 Having expressed through Major Bowden their thanks for the 

 hospitality which had been extended to them, and been assured 

 by Mr Eimmer that he would be delighted to have them again as 

 his guests next season, the party left about seven o'clock and 

 drove in to Dumfries. 



3;-,/ of July, 1890. 



At a meeting of the Council, Mr G. F. Scott Elliot, F.L.S., 

 was appointed curator of the Herbarium, with the Misses Hannay 

 and Miss M. Aitken as assistants. A letter was read from ]\Irs 

 Walter Grierson of Chapel Mount, acknowledging one from Dr 

 Chinnock, in which he had accepted the gift of her late son's (Dr 

 Frank Grierson) Herbarium to the Society. 



Wi of July, 1890. 

 Field Meeting— Kirkcudbright, Cally Park, Amvoth, Gatehouse. 



New Metnbers. — Mr John Henderson, solicitor; Mrs Sloan, 

 Elmbank ; Miss Copland, Abbey House, Newabtey. 



Twenty-six members attended, and proceeded by rail to 

 Kirkcudbright, where they were joined by thirteen of the Kirk- 

 cudbright Club. The whole party, under the escort of Mr John 

 M'Kie, then drove to Gatehouse, going by way of Nunmill and 

 Borgue, passing the old churchyard of Kirkchrist, and along the 

 foot of the wooded moat of Doon. Some distance further on, they 

 passed the bye-road leading across the farm of Balmangan to the 

 burial-ground of the ancient parish of Senwick, now incorporated 

 in Borgue. The party, however, did not visit the churchyard, 

 which is some distance off the road ; but pushed on past Balmangan 

 Tower, the seat at divers times of the families of Charteris, M'Lellan, 

 and Carson, and by Pringleton, Borgue, and Plunton Castle. The 

 latter was the seat of the family of Lennox— or, as it used to be 



