PROCEEDINGS AND TRANSACTIONS 
OF THE 
DUMFRIESSHIRE AND GALLOWAY 
Natural History and Antiquarian Society. 
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7th October, 1887. 
ANNUAL ME HTL N G. 
Mr James G. H. Starke, M.A., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
Twenty-six members present. 
New Member.—Mr William Moodie, Solicitor, 
Donations.—A section of the rock obtained from the sinking 
of the Artesian Well at Troqueer Mills, from Mr W. A. F. Coup- 
land ; two specimens of native ore—silver and copper—and a large 
barnacle, from Dr Bruce of Castle Dykes ; a stone whorl found at 
Canonbie, from Mr William M‘Dowall; a MS. copy of the Minute 
Book of the Trades Incorporation of the date 1601, from Mrs 
Pearce ; the 6th Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology 
(United States) ; the Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution, 
1885; three Annual Reports of the Elisha Mitchell Society ; the 
Transactions of the Glasgow Natural History Society, the Belfast 
Naturalists’ Society, the New York Academy of Sciences; the 
Annual Report of the British Association, 1886; nine parts of the 
Journal of the Linnean Society, from Mr Robinson-Douglas ; and 
eight volumes of the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, for 
“which the Committee had exchanged Ethnological specimens from 
New Zealand, 
