Appendix. 73 
ARCH H#OLOGICAL DIVISION. 
(Names of Exhibitors are given in Italics. ) 
Booxs.—Burns’ Poems, 1st Edinburgh Edition (1787) ; a folio 
Bible Concordance, which belonged to Burns when at Ellisland 
(1788); Carlyle’s French Revolution, 1st Edition, with autograph ; 
twenty volumes by local authors in prose and poetry—WMr JJ. 
Gibson Starke. Twenty-three volumes by local authors—Mr 
James Lennox. History of Dumfries, Copy of Dr Burnside’s 
MS. History—Mr W. M‘Math. Lectures by Dr Wightman 
(Oliver & Boyd, 1834) ; Sketches from N ature, by J. M‘Diarmid 
(1830) ; Collection of Reels, &e., by James Porteous (1820) ; 
George Thomson’s Collection of Scots Songs, 4 vols. (1803)—Mr 
F. Gilruth. Mr M‘Diarmid’s Serap-book, 1 vol.; Sermons by Dr 
Thomas Mutter, of the New Church ; Burns in Dumfries, by 
M‘Dowall ; Burns’ Poems (small 8vo.); Observatory Catalogue ; 
Burns, the Ploughman Poet—Mr Wellwood Anderson. Burns’ 
Poems, Kilmarnock Edition, complete—Mr J. R. Wilson. A 
large Bible that belonged to Allan Cunningham's father—Mrs 
Aitken. Philip M‘Cubbin’s Bible—Mr James M ‘Cubbin, Elvan- 
foot. Several old books by local authors and others, annotated 
by Burns—fRev. W. NV. Dodds. A History of the Wars of 
Montrose, annotated by Burns ; Transactions of the first Agri- 
cultural Society of Dumfries (1776)—Mrs Aitken. A large 
_ Scrap-book, containing interesting cuttings, and an old Valuation 
Roll of Kirkcudbrightshire—Kirkeudbright Museum. Valuation 
Roll of Dumfries (1807), Valuation Roll of Kirkcudbright (1778) 
—Mr Henry Gordon. Book by Smeaton ; Songs of Scotland by 
Allan Cunningham—WMr J. Fergusson. A Lithographed Book, 
illustrating the different styles of writing, by Craik, a writing 
master in the Duinfries Academy—Mr S. Grierson. The first 
volume of the Cowrier—The Courier and Herald Offices. 
Burns’ Retics.—An exhibition of this description taking 
place in Dumfries would be singularly incomplete that did not 
contain a number of interesting memorials of the poet Burns, 
who was an honorary burgess of the town, lived in it, died in it, 
is buried in it, and is its everlasting glory. On the occasion of 
the Burns’ Statue Bazaar, held in September, 1880, what was 
perhaps the largest and richest collection of Burns’ relics ever 
Seen was displayed in the Mechanics’ Hall. A printed catalogue 
of the relics, written by the well-informed and affectionate 
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