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ah's ahoot Jit for my dinner;" Sc, " Weel, I'm ahooi Jit for my 

 dinner," " bed," " tea," &c. 



III. Report by Mr Geouge F. Scott-Elliot, B.Sc, on 

 Mr Carruthers' Donation. 



Mr Wm. Carruthers has very greatly benefited the Society by 

 the very valuable series of plants in this collection. Members of 

 the Society who will inspect the specimens in the Herbarium 

 will see that they are of the very greatest importance. It is, of 

 course, possible to get specimens of British plants without much 

 trouble, but the importance and value of these specimens lies in 

 the fact that they are in almost every case named by the xery 

 best authorities on English Botany. There are amongst them 

 plants named by Mr C. Bailey, Mr A. Brotherston, Mr W. P. 

 Hiern, and other eminent botanists, and many of the sheets have 

 an antiquarian and autographic value which can only be ap- 

 preciated by examination. Moreover, in point of mere numbers, 

 this collection has at once given a completeness to our Herbarium 

 which I liad never dreamed of its attaining, and many of the 

 specimens are of plants so rare that it would have been im- 

 possible for us to obtain them in any other way. 



6th February, 1891. 

 Major BowDEN, V.P., in the Chair. 



Nev} Members. — Mr Alexander Bryson, Rev. John Cairns, Mr 

 James Carmont, Mr Philip Sulley, Mr Alexander Turner. 



Donation. — The North American Fauna, Nos. 3 and 4, from 

 the United States Department of Agriculture, Washington. 



C0.MMUNICATIONS. 



I. References to the Dumfriesshire Flora in Shakespeare and 

 Burns. By Mr James Shaw (abridged). 



In the following brief list I have confined myself to such wild 

 flowers as are in our district,, and I have arranged the matter 

 alphabetically : — 



The Anemone, or wind-flower, called by Dumfries|hire school 



