PROCEEDINGS AND TRANSACTIONS 



OF THE 



DUMFRIESSHIRE AND GALLOWAY 



NATURAL HISTORY & ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY. 



SESSION 1890-91. 



3rd October, 1890. 



ANNUAL MEETING. 



Major BowDEN, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



A^eio Members. — Rev. George Laurie Fogo, of Torlhorwald ; 

 Rev. Patrick M. Phiyfair, of Glencairn ; Mr Jolm Rite, Rashie- 

 grain, Teviothead ; Miss Ethel Taylor, Kirkaudrews Rectory, 

 Longtown. 



Doiuitions. — From the Rev. R. W. Weir, a portrait of Dr 

 Mouusey, the court physician to the Czarina Catherine II. in 

 1768, and a copy of the pamphlet published in 1815 by Dr 

 Duncan on Savings Banks ; the Report of the Bureau of 

 Ethnology (Washington), 1883-5; Report of the British Associa 

 tiou, 1889; the Es.sex Naturalist, October, 1889— June, 1890; 

 Report of the Belfast Naturalists Field Club ; Repoi't of Marl- 

 borough College Natural History Society ; Proceedings of the 

 Canadian Institute, Toronto, April, 1890; Journal of the Elisha 

 Mitchell Scientific Society ; Transactions of the New York 

 Academy of Sciences ; the Problem of the Ohio Mounds ; tlie 

 Textile Fabrics of Ancient Peru ; Bibliography of the Iroquoian 

 languages ; Bibliography of the Muskiiogean languages ; the 

 Circular Square and Octagonal Earthworks of Ohio ; the Smith- 

 sonian Report of the United States' National Museum, 1886-7 ; 

 Transactions of the Cryptogamic Society of Scotland, 1889 • 

 Bulletin of Minnesota Academy of Natural Sciences; Proceedings 



