10 Transactions. 
Ist February, 1884. 
Dr Gitcurist, President, in the Chair. Thirty 
members present. 
The Secretary intimated that the Society was about to lose one 
of its energetic members—Mr J. M‘Meekan—who would in a 
few days leave this country for Tasmania, and moved that Mr 
M‘Meekan’s name be transferred from the Roll of Ordinary to 
that of the Corresponding Members. The Chairman seconded 
the motion, and remarked that Mr M‘Meekan was one of the 
few young men who had taken an active interest in the Society 
for several years. He had done what all young men ought to do 
—he had never missed an opportunity of gaining knowledge and 
information, and he would find now that there was nothing to 
him so important. The motion was unanimously agreed to. 
Donations and Exhibits. —-The Secretary laid on the table 
Vol. I1., Part III., of the Proceedings of the Perthshire Society 
of Natural Science, and Vol. IT., Part ITI., of the Transactions 
of the Glasgow Archeological Society, as donations from these 
Societies. Dr Gilchrist exhibited a small chicken that had been 
born blind, and remarked that this malformation was of rare 
occurrence in ornithology. He also exhibited a piece of slate 
from Keswick, containing vestiges of the original stratification. 
CoMMUNICATIONS. 
I. The Founder of Lincluden Abbey and his Relatives. 
By Mr W. M‘Dowatt. (Abstract). 
In this paper Mr M‘Dowall stated that Galloway at the 
Lincluden era was not only Celtic in its population, insti- 
tutions, and language; it was besides, all but independent 
of the Scottish Crown. It was in the neighbourhood of 
Northallerton, amid conditions of battle and slaughter, that 
we get our first reliable glimpse of Ulgric and Dovenald, the 
founders of the family to whom we owe the erection not only of 
Lincluden Abbey, but also of many other edifices, chiefly ecclesi- 
astical, in our own locality. The name Owen Galous appears in 
the early part of the eleventh century annals as a ruler over some 
Celtic tribes ; and, says Mr M‘Kenzie, in his valuable History of 
Galloway— There is a considerable probability that this chief 
was descended from Dunwallon—the British form of the Irish 
