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Transactions. 
6th March, 1885. 
Dr Gixcurist, President, in the Chair. Forty members present. 
Donations.—The Chairman presented, on behalf of Dr Grant, 
Bey of Cairo, a number of fragments of Egyptian pottery, pieces 
of alabaster, nummulitic limestone, fossil-wood, sandstone, Roman 
cement, ancient glass, and flint instruments. Mr W. G. Scott 
presented a fine specimen of the Great Northern Diver (Colymbus 
Glacialis), which had been shot in the preceding winter at Carse- 
thorn. The Secretary laid on the table the Second Annual 
Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1880-81, and the Smithsonian 
Institution Report for 1882, as donations from the Smithsonian 
Institution ; also nine parts of the Linnean Society’s Transac- 
tions, as a donation from Mr Robinson-Douglas. 
Exhibits—Mr Scott exhibited specimens of stigmaria, the 
coralline limestone, cannel coal, bitumen, and galena from the 
Leadhills ; also a small stone ring found at Troquhain, New- 
Galloway. Miss Reid exhibited several specimens of the rocks 
taken from the excavations in the sinking of the Mersey Tunnel. 
CoMMUNICATIONS. 
I. Early Notices of the use of Tobacco in Britain. 
By Rector Curnnocx. 
Il. The Rocks of the Moffat District and their Fossil Remains. 
By Mr James Dairoy, F.G.S. 
I have thought it advisable to make this communication as 
useful as possible, so that it may be available as a kind of guide 
to the different localities around Moffat, leading to the best 
known situations in these parts, and as near as possible to where 
the working student may find the different genera and species of 
the Graptolitic family in the greatest profusion, and also in the 
best state of preservation. The finely rounded character of the 
hills of Upper Annandale, many of them exceeding 2000 feet in 
height, and covered with verdure to their summit, may not 
possess the rugged grandeur of the northern or western High- 
lands, still they have a beauty of their own, and in many parts 
make up some of the finest pastoral scenery in Soctland. Under- 
neath their grassy covering we find the prevailing rock to be a 
Silurian grit or Grauwacke, of a grey or greenish colour, and 
