PROCEEDINGS AND TRANSACTIONS 
OF THE 
DUMFRIESSHIRE AND GALLOWAY 
NATURAL HISTORY AND ANTIQUARIAN 
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lst Octoher, 1886. 
ANNUAL MEETING. 
Dr Grierson, President, in the Chair. Twenty-three 
members present. 
New Member—Mr W. J. Maxwell of Terraughtie, Dumfries. 
Donations.—The Secretary laid on the table the 5th Annual 
Report of the United States Geological Survey; the Annual 
Report of the Smithsonian Institution for 1884; Report of the 
Peabody Museum, 1885, as donations from the Smithsonian 
Institution ; and two numbers of the Phytologist containing lists 
of local hepatics and mosses from Mr Peter Gray. A land-rail 
(Crex pratensis) from Mr W. J. Maxwell, Terregles Banks. 
Exhibits —Mr George Johnstone exhibited two pieces of the 
‘sandstone rock from Corsehill Quarry, near Annan, in the shape 
of a man’s foot’ and leg, and remarked that they were of this 
shape when quarried. The Chairman explained that he believed 
‘these two curiously shaped stones to be the casts of plants, &c., 
f 01 med at the time of the deposition of the rock by the removal 
Ff the original substance, the sand filling the vacant places. 
of the species. The Chairman exhibited several specimens of the 
ttton Moth, which had been sent him by Dr Grant Bey, of 
airo. This moth (Zarias Insulana) was first discovered in 
Madagascar, and is known to be very destructive to the cotton 
