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5th December, 1890. 

 Mr James Barbour, V.P., in the Chair. 



New Members. — Rev. Alexander Chapman and Dr Pati'ick 

 Murray. 



Donations and Exhibits.. — A collection of the rarer plants of 

 Wigtownshire was presented by Mr James M'Andrew for the 

 Herbarium ; a stone hammer found at Newfield, near Ecclefechan, 

 was presented by Miss Aitken. Mr James Barbour exhibited a 

 very tine fungus of the genus of the Polyporus ; Mr John Corrie, 

 a valentine over 100 years old, belonging to Mrs Harkness of 

 Dahvhat, Moniaive ; Mr J. S. Thomson, a be;id found in opening 

 a grave at Sweetheart Abbey, supposed to have been part of a 

 rosary. 



Herbarium of British Plants. — The Secretary informed the 

 Council that Mr Carruthers, the Curator of the British Museum 

 (JSTatural History) had offered Mr G. F. Scott Elliot, M.A., the 

 selection of specimens from the Museum, with the view of form- 

 ing at Dumfries an Herbarium of British Plants. It was agreed 

 to empower Mr Scott Elliot to make such a selection as he 

 deemed desirable, and that he should be requested to form the 

 Herbarium which lie proposed. 



Communications. 

 I. A Pre- Historic Colony at Anwoth, 



By Mr Frederic R. Coles. • 



The district to which my remarks are limited in the present 

 papei' is one so remarkalily rich in pre-historic remains that, at 

 first, it seems puzzling where to begin. Its area occupies strictly 

 a good deal less than the five square miles marked out on my 

 enlargement of the Ordnance Survey Map, and the whole of it 

 lies well to the westward of the famous Sky re burn. It is hilly, 

 as you may see from the naiiies and heights of the moorland; the 

 summits of Barholm Hill and Ben John, three miles fi'om the 

 sea, being respectively 1163 and 1000 feet liigh, while Cairn 

 Harrow, about IJ miles more inland, touches 1500 feet. 



It is well bounded by streams: Cauldside Bum, on the extreme 

 North, falling into the Skyreburn, forming together the largest 

 stream, while Kirkdale Burn runs on the East, and the three 



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